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521. Hieron. in Euseb. Chron.

522. See Meyer’s Anthol. Lat.

523. Ibid. 77, 78.

524. Lib. x. i. 87.

525. Hor. Sat. I. x. 46.

526. Anthol. 77, 78.

527. See, on this subject, Niebuhr’s Lectures on Roman History, cvi.

528. Mart. Ep. xii. 68.

529. See Quint. de Inst. Or.

530. Servius.

531. Scalig. in Euseb. Chron.

532.B. C.55.

533. See v. 7.

534. Ecl. ix. 18.

535.B. C.40.

536.B. C.38.

537. Alexander, an Italian abbot, states, on the evidence of two spurious verses, that he was governor of Naples and Calabria.

538. Ep. viii. 56.

539. Carm. xv. 12.

540. Hor. Sat. I. v. 49.

541. Carm. i. 3.

542. There has been much discussion respecting the precise place of his burial. (See Cramer’s Anc. It. ii. 174.) Addison, in opposition to the popular belief, thought it almost certain that it stood on that side of the town which looks towards Vesuvius. (Remarks on Italy, p. 164; sec. ed.)

543. Meyer, Anthol. 95.

544. Dial. de Caus. Corrup. El. 13.

545. Hor. Sat. I. v. 41.

546. Macrob. Saturn. I.sub fine.

547. Plin. N. H. vii. 30.

548. See Meyer’s Anthol. 85–111.

549.A litle noursling of the humid ayre,A gnat unto the sleepie shepheard went;And, marking where his ey-lids twinckling rareShewd the two pearles, which sight unto him lent,Through their thin coverings appearing fayre,His litle needle there infixing deep,Warnd him awake, from death himselfe to keep.Spenser.

549.

A litle noursling of the humid ayre,A gnat unto the sleepie shepheard went;And, marking where his ey-lids twinckling rareShewd the two pearles, which sight unto him lent,Through their thin coverings appearing fayre,His litle needle there infixing deep,Warnd him awake, from death himselfe to keep.Spenser.

A litle noursling of the humid ayre,

A gnat unto the sleepie shepheard went;

And, marking where his ey-lids twinckling rare

Shewd the two pearles, which sight unto him lent,

Through their thin coverings appearing fayre,

His litle needle there infixing deep,

Warnd him awake, from death himselfe to keep.

Spenser.

550. Faery Queene, book iii. c. ii. 3. See Dunlop, iii.

551. Spenser, adopting the incorrect orthography and etymology of Petrarch, writes the word Æglogue, and derives it fromαἴγων λόγοι—tales of goats or goatherds.

552. Sat. I. x. 44.

553. Id. x. and xxi.

554. In Euseb. Chron.

555.B. C.39.

556. Præl. de Sacr. Po. He. xxi. p. 289.

557. Orat. ad Sanctos, 19, 20; apud Euseb.

558. In 1 Cor. ii.

559. Adv. Jor. lib. i.

560. Contra Faust, i. 13, 2.

561. Orat. Paræn.

562. See notes to Pope’s Messiah.

563. Decl. and Fall. c. xx. vol. iii. p. 269.

564. A. Gell. N. A. xvii. 10.

565. Misc. Works, vol. i.

566. G. iv. 560–564.

567. G. ii. 171.

568. See Dunlop, H. of R. L. iii.s. v.Virg.

569.B. C.27.

570. Æn. ii. 567–589.

571. Ibid. vi. 511.

572. Æn. viii. 626.

573. Ibid. i.

574. Book v.

575. Macrob. Saturn. v. 13.

576. Saturn. vi. 1, 2, 3.

577. Compare De Nat. Rer. ii. 24; vi. 136, 1143–1224; with Georg. ii. 461, 467, &c.; iii. 478, 505, 509, &c.

578. Iliad,Ζ. 506; Æn. xi. 492.

579. Spence’s Anecdotes.

580. See, on this subject, Dunlop’s Hist. iii. 151.

581. See Clarke’s Homer,Il.iii. 363, note.

582. H. N. xxxv. 10.

583. Lect. cvi. on R. H.

584. Introd. Lect. iv.

585. Serv. ad Æn. i. 98; ii. 797; iii. 10.

586. Meyer, Anthol. 85, 93, &c.

587. Od. IV. iii. 23.

588. De Off. i. 42.

589. Sat. I. vi. 86.

590. Ibid. I. vi. 71.

591. Od. III. xxx. 10.

592. Ibid. IV. ix. 2.

593. Od. III. iv. 9.

594. Sat. I. vi. 71.

595. Seeex. gr.Ep. II. 41; Od. III. vi. 37; Sat. II. ii. 112.

596. Ep. II. i. 70.

597. Ibid. ii. 41.

598. Sat. I. vi. 76.

599. Sat. I. vi.

600. Ibid. vi.

601. Ibid. iv. 103.

602. Ep. II. ii. 43.

603. Sat. I. vi.

604. Od. II. vii.

605. Ep. II. ii. 49.

606. Suet. in Vita.

607. Ep. II. xiv. 17.

608. Sat. I. vi. 114.

609. Ep. II. ii. 51.

610. Sat. I. vi.

611. B. C. 41.

612. Sat. I. v. 39.

613. Ibid. vi. 55.

614. Sat. I. v.

615. According to Bentley, he composed them in the twenty-sixth, twenty-seventh, and twenty-eighth years of his age; according to Clinton, in the twenty-fifth, twenty-sixth, and twenty-seventh.

616.Ex. gr.viii. xi. xii.

617. See Od. I. 16, 22.

618. Sat. II. vi. 1.

619. Ibid. 8.

620. Ibid. 10.

621. Ibid. vi. 33.

622. Ibid. 38.

623. Ibid. 47.

624. Ep. I. 18.

625. Sat. II. vi. 62.

626. Ibid. vi. 61.

627. Ibid. iii. 11.

628. Ep. I. iv. 15; xx. 24; Suet. V. H.

629. Ep. I. xiv.; Od. I. xvii.

630. Sat. II. vi. 65.

631. Od. III. 4.

632. Sat. II. i. 45.

633. Clinton, Fasti:B. C.35, 34, 33.

634. Sat. II. vi.

635.B. C.31.

636.Ex. gr.ix. xvi.

637. See Ep. VII. ix.

638.B. C.29.

639. Clinton, F. H.

640. Lib. iii. 30.

641. Lib. iii. 29.

642. Ep. I. i. 1–10.

643. See Vit. Hor. Suet.

644. Ep. I. xx.

645. Suet. Ep. Aug. in Vita.

646. Ep. I. vii. 26; 3.

647. Ep. I. xx.

648. Od. II. iv. 22.

649. This feud continued until the time of Persius. (See Sat I. 141, and Gifford’s note.)

650. See De Chaupy, Eustace, Milman, &c.

651. Od. III. 13.

652. Découverte de la Maison d’Horace, tom. iii. p. 364.

653. Illust. to Childe Harold, p. 42.

654. Hist. of Rom. Lit. iii. 213.

655. Od. I. vii. 29.

656. See Milman’s Hor. p. 97.

657. Ep. I. xvi. 5. See also Eustace’s Class. Tour.

658. Ep. I. xviii. 105.

659. Ep. I. xiv. 2.

660. Ep. I. xiv. 23.

661. See also Pope’s imitation of this passage, Essay on Satire, part iii.

662. See Persius, Sat. I. 114.

663. Sat. I. 8.

664. Ibid. 9.

665. Ibid. v.

666. Sat. II. vi.

667. Sat. I. vi.

668. Ibid. vii.

669. Sat. II. iv.

670. Sat. I. 1.

671. Ibid. 2.

672. Ibid. 3.

673. See Prof. Anthon’s Horace, Donaldson’s Pindar, &c.

674. Meyer, Anthol. Rom. 114, 115.

675. Hom. Od. I. i.

676. Od. IV. ii.

677. Lib. lii. 14, &c.

678.B. C.40

679. Tac. Ann. vi. ii.

680.B. C.31.

681. Annal. iii. 30.

682. Hor. Sat. i. 8, 7.

683. Mart. viii. 56.

684. Plin. vii. 51; Hor. C. ii. 17.

685. Sen. de Prov. iii. 9.

686. Suet. 26.

687. Lib. ix. 4, 28.

688. The three passages quoted by Quintilian show a wanton awkwardness in arrangement almost inconceivable:—Sole et Aurora rubent plurimaInter sacra movit aqua fraxinos:Ne exequias quidem unus inter miserrimosViderem meas.The last of these he considers especially offensive, because he seems to be trifling with a melancholy subject.

688. The three passages quoted by Quintilian show a wanton awkwardness in arrangement almost inconceivable:—

Sole et Aurora rubent plurimaInter sacra movit aqua fraxinos:Ne exequias quidem unus inter miserrimosViderem meas.

Sole et Aurora rubent plurima

Inter sacra movit aqua fraxinos:

Ne exequias quidem unus inter miserrimos

Viderem meas.

The last of these he considers especially offensive, because he seems to be trifling with a melancholy subject.

689. Sen. Ep. 114.

690. Tac. Ann. i. 54.

691. Epp. iv. 14; vii. 4.

692. Sat. I. x.; Od. ii. 9.

693. Weichert, Poet. Lat. Rell.

694. Lib. iii. i. 18.

695. Ep. xli. i.

696. H. N. xxv. 2.

697. Tib. Op. iv. i. 180.

698. Sat. I. x. 44.

699. Ep. i. 16. See Schol.

700. Meyer’s Anthol.

701. Ecl. vi. 64.

702. Cic. ad Fam. x. 32.

703. Dion Cass. liii. 23.

704. Trist. iv. 10, 5.

705. Lib. x. i. 93; i. 5, 8.

706. See Hor. Od. i. 33; Ep. i. 4.

707. El. i.

708. El. i. and iv.

709. El. i.

710. Nieb. Lect. cvii.

711. Amorum iii. 9.

712. Od. iv. 1, 3, 4, 13; Ep. i. 7, 27, 14, 33.

713. Sat. I. ii.

714. Sat. II. viii.

715. Apol. p. 279.

716. Lect. on R. H. 107.

717. Meyer’s Anthol. Vet. Lat. Ep. No. 122.

718.B. C.45;A. U. C.709.

719. Schol. in Propert.

720. Clinton.

721. Niebuhr.

722. Trist. iv. 10, 45.

723. Prop. IV. i. 128, and ii. 25.

724. Ibid. IV. i.

725. Ibid. II. xiv. 15–18.

726. Ibid. I. 1, 2; x. ii. 16.

727. Ibid. I. ii. 27.

728. Ibid. II. iii. 17.

729. Prop. IV. i. 63.

730. Inst. Orat. x. 1.

731. Trist. IV. x. 33.

732. Trist. iv. 10.

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