seems to have suggested Persius’ line— “Scire tuum nihil, nisi te scire hoc sciat alter.” The verses, “Cujus non audeo dicere nomen,” &c. quoted above, are copied by Juvenal in his first satire, but with evident allusion to the works of his predecessor. A line in the first book— “Quis leget hæc? mîn’ tu istud ais? nemo, Hercule, nemo,” has been imitated by Persius in the very commencement of his satires— “O curas hominum! O quantum est in rebus inane! Quis leget hæc? mîn’ tu istud ais? nemo, Hercule, nemo.” Virgil’s phrase, so often quoted, “Non omnia possumus omnes,” is in the fifth book of Lucilius— “Major erat natu; non omnia possumus omnes.” Were the whole works of Lucilius extant, many more such imitations might be discovered and pointed out. It is not on this account, however, that their loss is chiefly to be deplored. Had they remained entire, they would have been highly serviceable to philological learning. They would have informed us also of many incidents of Roman history, and would have presented us with the most complete draught of ancient Roman manners, and genuine Roman originals, which were painted from life, and at length became the model of the inimitable satires of imperial Rome. Besides satirizing the wicked, under which category he probably classed all his enemies, Lucilius also employed his pen in praise of the brave and virtuous. He wrote, as we learn from Horace, a panegyric on Scipio Africanus, but whether the elder or younger is not certain:— “Attamen et justum poteras et scribere fortem Scipiadam, ut sapiens Lucilius(425).” Lucilius was also author of a comedy entitled _Nummularia_, of which only one line remains; but we are informed by Porphyrion, the scholiast on Horace, that the plot turned on Pythias, a female slave, tricking her master, Simo, out of a sum of money, with which to portion his daughter. Lucilius was followed in his satiric career by Sævius Nicanor, the grammarian, who was the freedman of one Marcius, as we learn from the only line of his poetry which is extant, and which has been preserved by Suetonius, or whoever was the author of the work _De Illustribus Grammaticis_:— “Sævius Nicanor Marci libertus negabit.” Publius Terentius Varro, sirnamed Atacinus, from the place of his birth, also attempted the Lucilian satire, but with no great success as we learn from Horace:— “Hoc erat, experto frustra Varrone Atacino.” He was more fortunate, it is said, in his geographical poems, and in that _De Bello Sequanico_(426).