[35] Si quis autem carmen prolixius eatenus duxerit esse culpandum quod epigrammatis excesserit paucitatem, istum liquido patet neque balneas Etrusci neque Herculem Surrentinum neque comas Flavii Earini neque Tibur Vopisci neque omnino quicquam de Papinii nostri silvulis lectitasse quas omnes descriptiones vir ille præiudicatissimus non distichorum aut tetrastichorum stringit angustiis, sed potius, ut lyricus Flaccus in artis poeticæ volumine præcipit, multis isdemque purpureis locorum communium pannis semel inchoatas materias decenter extendit. Carmen XXII. 6 (prose epilogue). The allusions are to Statius. For the rhetorical cast of the _Ars poetica_ itself, which is constantly quoted throughout the middle age, see ARP 245. [36] ARP 100. [37] Above, page 80. [38] Nam debetur ab eo percopiosus litteris honor. Hunc olim perorantem et rhetorica sedilia plausibili oratione frangentem. V. x. 2. [39] See Chapter I. B. 2. a (3) and d (5). [40] Both are in Keil, with two other grammarians of this period who seem to have had considerable currency, Fortunatianus and Victorinus. The names have occasioned some confusion. Keil calls the grammarian Atilius Fortunatianus, and distinguishes Maximus from Marius Victorinus. The latter has been regarded as the author of the widespread commentary on Cicero’s _De inventione_; but Halm assigns this to Q. Fabius Laurentius Victorinus. The _Ars rhetorica_ is generally assigned to Q. Chirius (or Curius) Fortunatianus. But the determination of persons is of little moment here. The works are all of this period and all current in the middle age. Keil includes also the compends of Cassiodorus and Bede. His notes are valuable especially for locating correspondences and medieval use. W. J. Chase’s translation of the _Ars Minor_ of Donatus reprints Keil’s text and has an historical introduction (Univ. of Wisconsin Studies No. 36, Madison, 1926). [41] E.g., in 1445 Panicali da Cingoli gave his _Flores grammaticæ_ the sub-title _Donatellus_; and by then the English name for an elementary grammar was _donet_. Pecock uses the word, in the sense of primer, as a title for his handbook of morals. [42] Priscian includes a translation of the elementary exercises of Hermogenes (see above, Chapter I. B. 2. c). [43] For _prælectio_ see the index to ARP. [44] Scientia interpretandi poetas atque historicos et recte scribendi loquendique ratio. Marius Victorinus, Keil VI. 188. The same words are found in Audax, Keil VII. 321; and substantially equivalent definitions in Servius on Donatus, Keil IV. 486; Asper, Keil V. 547; Dositheus, Keil VII. 376. Priscian’s examples are mainly from poetry. [45] Nulla imbutus poetica disciplina Terentianum Maurum sine magistro adtingere non auderes. Asper, Cornutus, Donatus et alii innumerabiles requiruntur, ut quilibet poeta possit intellegi cuius carmina et theatri plausus uiderentur captare. _De utilitate credendi_, 17 (CSE, S. August, vol. 6, 21. 25).