The History of Roman Literature Part 63

[9] See ii. 94 which contains exaggerated commendations on Tiberius.

[10] The author's humble estimate of himself appears, Si prisci oratores ab Jove Opt. Max. bene orsi sunt ... mea parvitas eo iustius ad tuum favorem decurrerit, quod cetera divinitas opinione colligitur, tua praesenti fide paterno avitoque sideri par videtur ... Deos reliquos accepimus, Caesarea dedimus.

[11] The reader is referred to Teuffel, _Rom. Lit._ -- 274, 11.

[12] Daremberg.

[13] Notices of Celsus are--on his Husbandry, Quint. XII. xi. 24, Colum.

I. i. 14; on his Rhetoric, Quint. IX. i. 18, _et saep._; on his Philosophy, Quint. X. i. 124; on his Tactics, Veget. i. 8. Celsus died in the time of Nero, under whom he wrote one or two political works.

[14] See Sen. Contr. Praef. X. 2-4.

[15] Quint. X. i. 91.

[16] Mart. III. 20, _Aemulatur improbi iocos Phaedri_.

[17] Phaed. III. prol. 21.

[18] Phaed. IV. prol. 11; he carefully defines his fables as _Aesopiae_, not _Aesopi_.

[19] Quint. X. i. 95.

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[1] Cal. 34.

[2] Suet. Claud. 41.

[3] Id.

[4] See p. 11.

[5] Sen. de. Tr. 14, 4.

[6] Nero had asked Cornutus's advice on a projected poem on Roman history in 400 books. Cornutus replied, "No one, Sire, would read so long a work."

Nero reminded him that Chrysippus had written as many. "True!" said Cornutus, "but _his_ books are useful to mankind."

[7] v. Suetonius's _Vita Persii_.

[8] Pers. v. 21.

[9] Ib. i. 12.

[10] "_Sed sum petulanti splene cachinno_," Pers. i. 10.

[11] Himself a lyric poet (Quint. X. i. 96) of some rank. He also wrote a didactic poem, _De Metris_, of a similar character to that of Terentia.n.u.s Maurus. Persius died 62 A.D.

[12] _Vit. Pers._: this was before he had written the Pharsalia.

[13] Quint. X. i. 94.

[14] Mart. IV. xxix. 7.

[15] Pers. i. 96.

[16] _E.g._ i. 87, 103. Cf. v. 72.

[17] Pers. iii. 77.

[18] Ib. iv. 23.

[19] Ib. i. 116. The examples are from Nisard.

[20] Ep. ii. 1, 80.

[21] Pers. v. 103. Compare Lucan's use of _frons, nec frons erit ulla senatus_, where it seems to mean boldness. In Persius it = shame.

[22] A. P. 102.

[23] Pers. i. 91. Compare ii. 10; i. 65. with Hor. S. II. vi. 10; II. vii.

87.

[24] Ib. i. 124.

[25] Ib. i. 59.

[26] Ib. v. 119.

[27] Ib. vi. 25.

[28] The accuracy of this story has been doubted, perhaps not without reason. Nero's contests were held every five years. Lucan had gained the prize in one for a laudation of Nero, 59 A.D.(?), and the one alluded to in the text may have been 64 A.D. when Nero recited his _Troica_. Dio.

lxii. 29.

[29] Perhaps Phars. iii. 635. The incident is mentioned by Tac., Ann. xv.

70.

[30] Phars. i. 33.

[31] Ib. vii. 432.

[32] _I.e._ beyond the bounds of the Roman empire.

[33] Martial alludes to Quintilian's judgment when he makes the Pharsalia say, _me criticus negat esse poema: Sed qui me vendit bibliopola putat_.

[34] Phars. v. 59.

[35] _Si libertatis Superis tam cura placent Quam vindicta placet_, Phars.

iv. 806.