The History of Roman Literature Part 43

--_Prol_. 2, 14.

[23] 2 Hor. Ep, li. 1, 59. _Vincere Caecilius gravitate_.

[24] Adelph. prol.:

"Nam quod isti dic.u.n.t malevoli, homines n.o.biles Hunc adiutare, a.s.sidueque una scribere; Quod illi maledictmn vehemens existimant, Eam laudem hic ducit maximam: c.u.m illis placet, Qui vobis universis et populo placent: Quorum opera in bello, in otio, in negotio Suo quisque tempore usus est sine superbia."

[25] See prol. to Andria.

[26] Suet. Vit. Ter.

[27] Tu quoque tu in summis, o dimidiate Menander, poneris, &c.--_Ib._

[28] Possibly the following may be exceptions:--Andr. 218; Haut. 218, 356; Hec. 543. See Teuffel.

[29] See the first scene of the _Adelphoe_.

[30] _Metriotaes_, the quality so much admired by the Greek critics, in which Horace may be compared with Terence. Cf. _Aul. Gell._ vi. (or vii.) 14, 6.

[31] 1. 37, _sqq._

[32] Suet. Vit. Ter.

[33] Sat. 1, 4, 53, referring to the scene in the _Adelphoe_.

[34] Except in the prologues to the _Eun._ and _Hecyra_.

[35] 805, "_ut quimus_" _aiunt_, "_quando ut volumus non licet_." The line of Caecilius is "_Vivas ut possis quando non quis ut velis._"

[36] Georg. iii. 9.

"Tentanda via est qua me quoque possim Toll ere humo _victorque virum volitare per ora_."

He expresses his aspiration after immortality in the same terms that Ennius had employed.

[37] Eun. v. iv.

[38] Or "Lanuvinus." Those who wish to know the inartistic expedients to which he resorted to gain applause should read the prologues of Terence, which are most valuable materials for literary criticism.

[39] Att. xiv. 20, 3.

[40] Teuffel 103.

[41] Sometimes called _Tabernaria_, Diomed iii. p. 488, though, strictly speaking, this denoted a lower and more provincial type.

[42] x. 1, 100.

CHAPTER V.

[1] _Quadrati versus._ Gell. ii. 29.

[2] Cic. de Sen. 5, 14.

[3] Ep. I. xix. 7.

[4] Nunquam poetor nisi podager.

[5] _Quintus Maeonides pavone ex Pythagoreo_ (Persius).

[6] Greek, Oscan, and Latin.

[7] Ep. II. i. 52.

[8] Fragment of the _Telamo_.

[9] _Aufert Pacuvius docti famam senis_.--_Hor. Ep._ ii. 1, 56.

[10] We learn from Pliny that he decorated his own scenes.

[11] We infer that he came to Rome not later than 169, as in that year he buried Ennius; but it is likely that he arrived much earlier.

[12] De Am. vii.

[13] 1, 77. "Antiopa aerumnis cor luctificabile fulta."

[14] Tusc. II. x. 48.

[15] The Antiopa and Dulorestes.

[16] Quint. I. V. 67-70.

[17] We give the reader an example of this feature of Pacuvius's style. In the _Antiopa_, Amphion gives a description of the tortoise: "_Quadrupes tardigrada agrestis humilis aspera Capite brevi cervice anguina aspectu truci Eviscerata inanima, c.u.m artimali sono._" To which his hearers reply --"_Ita saeptuosa dictione abs te datur, Quod coniectura sapiens aegre contulit. Non intelligimus nisi si aperte dixeris._"

[18] Prob. 94 B.C. when Cic. was twelve years old. In Planc. 24, 59, he calls him "gravis et ingeniosus poeta."

[19] Cf. Hor. Ep. ii. 1, 56; Cv. Am. i. 15, 19. On the other hand, Hor. S.

I. x. 53.

[20] Loco = decori, Non. 338, 22.

[21] Compare a similar subtle distinction in the Dulorestes, "_Piget_ paternum nomen, maternum _pudet_ profari."

[22] Propria = perpetua, Non. 362, 2.

CHAPTER VI.

[1] Vahlen, quoted by Teuffel, -- 90, 3; see Gell. xvii. 21, 43.