Coronatus was a versifier and grammarian in the Vandalic Age, friend and favourite of Luxorius. His Virgilian thema begins from Aen. III 315 (the encounter with Andromache). Aeneas’ tale, in Coronatus’ reworking of the Virgilian passage, refers directly or indirectly to others sections of the context of the Aeneid (and more generally of the Virgilian context), outside the episode of Aeneas’ encounter and exchange with Andromache. The amplificatio includes recollections (also from outside the Aeneid) of the misadventures of Aeneas in exile, and of the shipwreck which will culminate with the women who were embarked on the Trojan fleet rescuing the crew. Through the examination of some textual aspects, this paper will demonstrate that the poem, edited as consisting of two distinct parts by both Riese and Shackleton Bailey, is in fact joined in an organically structured unity, even if its content differs fundamentally from the Virgilian core from which it is began.
