132 Cicero, _Brutus_, c. 15. 133 Au. Gellius, Lib. I. c. 24. 134 “If blest immortals mortals might bemoan, Each heavenly Muse would Nævius’ loss deplore: Soon as his spirit to the shades had flown, In Rome the Roman tongue was heard no more.” 135 Heyne, _Excurs._ 1. ad Lib. II. _Æneid._ 136 Id. ad Æneid. The Cyprian Iliad had long been almost universally ascribed to Nævius, and lines were quoted from it as his by all the old grammarians. Several modern German critics, however, think that it was the work of Lævius, a poet who lived some time after Nævius, since the lines preserved from the Cyprian Iliad are hexameters,—a measure not elsewhere used by Nævius, nor introduced into Italy, according to their supposition, before the time of Ennius. Osannus, _Analecta Critica_, p. 36. Herman, _Elementa Doctrinæ Metricæ_, p. 210. Ed. Glasg. 1817. _ 137 De Senectute_. c. 14. 138 Suetonius, _De Illust. Grammat._ 139 Servius, _Ad Æneid._ Lib. 1. _ 140 Saturnalia_, Lib. VI. c. 2. Ed. Lugduni, 1560. I am anxious to take this opportunity of remarking, that the books and chapters of the _Saturnalia_ of Macrobius are differently divided in different editions. The same observation applies to many of the books most frequently referred to in the course of this work, as Pliny’s Natural History, Aulus Gellius, and Cicero. This difference in the division of chapters, I fear, has led to a suspicion with regard to the accuracy of a few of my references, which, however, have been uniformly verified on some edition or other, though I cannot pretend that I have always had access to the best. _ 141 Brutus_, c. 19. 142 Fortunatianus. Edit. Putsch. p. 2679. Bentley, _Dissert. on Phalaris_, p. 162. Hawkins, _Inquiry into the Nature of Latin Poetry_, p. 452. Ed. Lond. 1817. 143 Merula, Ed. Ennii Fragm. p. 88. Herman, _Elementa Doct. Met._ p. 395. 144 Cicero, _Brutus_, c. 18. Id. _De Senect._ c. 5. 145 Sil. Ital. Lib. XII. 146 Aurelius Victor says he taught Cato Greek in Sardinia, (In præturâ Sardiniam subegit, ubi ab Ennio Græcis literis institutus;) but this is inconsistent with what is related by Cicero, that Cato did not acquire Greek till old age. (_De Senectute_, c. 8.) 147 Cornelius Nepos, _In Vita Catonis_. 148 Hieron. _Chron. Euseb._ p. 37. 149 Cicero, _Pro Archia_, c. 10. _Tusc. Disput._ Lib. I. c. 2. 150 Cicero, _Brutus_, c. 20. 151 Claudian, _de Laud. Stilichonis_, Lib. III. Præf. 152 Müller thinks it was in Sardinia he served under Africanus. _Einleitung zu Kentniss Lateinischen Schriftsteller_, Tom. I. p. 378. Ed. Dresden, 1747–51. 153 Cicero, _De Orat._ Lib. II. c. 68. 154 Horat. _Epist._ Lib. I. Ep. 19. v. 7. 155 Ser. Sammonicus, _de Medicina_, c. 37.