[86] _Ibid._, I, vi, III, iii, IV, iii, V, ii, 1-44, xi, xiv, _Ex Ponto_, I, iv, III, i. [87] _Tristia_, III, vii. [88] xxxvii, 39 ff. [89] xxi, 10. [90] This is the generally accepted date, but it is possible that Vitruvius may have lived somewhat later. [91] Hercules Furens, Troades (or Hecuba), Phœnissæ (or Thebaïs, two disconnected scenes from Theban myths), Medea, Phædra (or Hippolytus), Œdipus, Agamemnon, Thyestes, and Hercules Œtæus. The _Fabula Prætexta_ entitled Octavia is not by Seneca. [92] Lines 893-944. Translated by Ella Isabel Harris. [93] This Lucilius has been supposed, though without sufficient reason, to be the author of the _Ætna_ (see p. 141). [94] _Pharsalia_, ix, 256-283. [95] _Verum hæc ipse equidem spatiis exclusus iniquis Prætereo atque aliis post me memoranda relinquo._ Virgil, _Georgics_, iv, 147 f. [96] _Thebais_, xi, 580-585. [97] Pliny, _Ep._ III, xxi. [98] I, xiii. These selections are translated by Goldwin Smith in _Bay Leaves_. [99] III, xxxv. [100] III, xli. [101] IV, viii. [102] _Inst. Orat._, vi, 3, 5. [103] _Ibid._, vi, 3, 5. [104] _Ibid._, vii, 7, 2 [105] The _prænomen_ is uncertain. The best manuscript (Mediceus I) gives it as Publius, later manuscripts and Sidonius Apollinaris as Gaius. [106] _Agricola_, 2. [107] _Annals_, i, 58. [108] _Ann._, ii, 77. [109] _Ann._, iii, 6. [110] _Ann._, iii, 27. [111] _Hist._, ii, 95. [112] _Hist._, iv, 74. [113] _Agric._, 9. [114] _Sat._ i, 30. [115] _Sat._ i, 79. [116] _Sat._ i, 85 f. [117] _Sat._ iii, 41 ff. [118] _Sat._ x, 356. [119] _Sat._ vi, 165. [120] _Sat._ x, 81. [121] _Sat._ vi, 223. [122] _Sat._ vi, 347. [123] _Sat._ viii, 84. [124] _Sat._ xiv, 47. [125] _Ep._, II, xvii. [126] _Ibid._, V, vi. [127] _Ibid._, VI, xvi, xx. [128] _Ibid._, VII, xxxiii. [129] _Ep._, VII, xx. [130] To-morrow he shall love who ne’er has loved, and he who has loved to-morrow shall love. [131] It is new spring; spring already harmonious; in spring Jove was born. In the spring loves join together; in the spring the birds wed. [132] She (the swallow) is singing, we are silent. When will my spring come? When shall I become like the swallow and cease to be silent? I have lost the Muse by keeping silent, and Apollo cares not for me. [133] The poem is the last of the _Instructiones_. The title reads: _Nomen Gasei_ and the initial letters of the lines read from the last to the first from the words: _Commodianus mendicus Christi_. From this it is inferred that Commodian was _Gasæus_, i. e., from Gaza.