107 See Micali, _Italia avant. il Domin. dei Romani_. Raoul-Rochette, _Hist. de l’Etablissement des Colonies Grecques_. Heyne, _Opusc. Academ._ Nogarolæ, _Epist. de Italis qui Græce scripserunt_. ap. Fabricius, _Supplem. ad Vossium De Histor. Lat._ 108 Ausus est primus argumento fabulam serere. Livy, Lib. VII. c. 2. 109 Tiraboschi, _Stor. __dell.__ Letteratura Italiana_. Parte III. Lib. II. c. 1. 110 Hieronym. in _Euseb. Chron._ p. 37. In Scaliger, _Thesaurus Temporum_, ed. Amstel. 1658. 111 Vidi etiam senem Livium, qui usque ad adolescentiam meam processit ætate. _De Senectute_, c. 14. 112 Signorelli, _Storia de Teatri_, Tom. II. 113 Lib. XXVII. c. 37. _ 114 Analecta Critica poesis Romanorum Scænicæ Reliquias lllustrantia_, c. 3. ed. Berlin, 1816. 115 Est enim inter scriptores de numero annorum controversia. Cicero, _Brutus_, c. 18. Cicero, however, fixes on the year 514, following, as he says, the account of his friend Atticus. 116 Livy, Lib. VII. c. 2. Quum sæpius revocatus vocem obtudisset, veniâ petitâ, puerum ad canendum ante tibicinem quum statuisset, canticum egisse, aliquanto magis vigente motu, quia nihil vocis usus impediebat. 117 Inde ad manum cantari histrionibus cœptum, diverbiaque tantum ipsorum voci relicta.—_Ibid._ 118 Festus, voce _Scribas_. 119 Osannus, _Analecta Critica_, c. 3. _ 120 Bibliotheca Latina_, Tom. III. Lib. IV. c. 1. 121 “Let the red buskin now your limbs invest, And the loose robe be belted to your breast; The rattling quiver let your shoulders bear— Throw off the hounds which scent the secret lair.” 122 Jos. Scaliger, _Lectionibus Ausonianis_, where the lines are attributed to Lævius. ap. Sagitarius, _de Vita L. Andronici_, c. 8. Osannus, _Analecta Critica_, c. 2. p. 36. Some verses in the _Carmen de Arte Metrica_ of Terentianus Maurus, are the chief authority for these hexameters being by Livius:— “Livius ille vetus Grajo cognomine, suæ Inserit Inonis versu, puto, tale docimen, Præmisso heroo subjungit namque μειουρον, Hymno quando Chorus festo canit ore Triviæ— ‘Et jam purpureo,’ ” &c. 123 Livianæ fabulæ non satis dignæ quæ iterum legantur. _Brutus_, c. 18. _ 124 Epist._ Lib. II. Ep. 1. v. 69. _ 125 Brutus_, c. 18. 126 —— “Nought worse can be For wearing out a man than the rough sea; Even though his force be great, and heart be brave, All will be broken by the vexing wave.” 127 Au. Gellius, Lib. XVII. c. 21. Ed. Lugd. Bat. 1666. _ 128 Tuscul. Disput._ Lib. IV. c. 31. 129 “—— My spirits, sire, are raised, Thus to be praised by one the world has praised.” 130 Au. Gellius. Lib. III. c. 3. Vossius. _De Historicis Latinis_, Lib. I. c. 2. 131 Hieronym. _Chronicum Eusebianum_, p. 37, ut supra.