33. Suet. _Ner. 52._ 34. Suet. _Ner. 49_ 'qualis artifex pereo!' 35. Suet. _Ner. 52_; Tac. _Ann. xiii. 3._ 36. Tac. _Ann. xiv. 16._ 37. Suet. _Domit. 1_; Tac. _Ann. xv. 49_; Suet. _Ner. 24._ 38. Mart, ix. 26. 9; Plin. _N. H. xxxvii. 50._ 39. Persius is sometimes said to quote from the Bacchae. Cf. Schol. Pers. _Sat. i. 93-5, 99-102_. But see ch. in, p. 89. 40. Juv. viii. 221; Serv. Verg. _Georg. iii. 36, Aen. v. 370._ 41. Dion. lxii. 29. 42. Dion. lxii. 18; Suet. _Ner. 38_; Tac. _Ann. xv. 39_. For fragments of his work see Baehrens, _Poet. Rom. Fragm., p. 368._ 43. Suet, Ner. 10, 21. 44. Philostr. _vit. Apoll_. iv. 39 [Greek: ad_on ta tou Ner_onos mel_e ... ep_ege mel_e ta men ex Oresteias, ta d' ex Antigon_es, ta d' opothenoun t_on prag_odoumen_on aut_o kai _odas ekampten oposas Ner_on elugize te kai kak_os estrephen]. 45. Suet. _vita Lucani_; see chapter on Lucan, p. 97. 46. See chapter on Lucan, p. 98. 47. Suet. _Luc_.; Tac. _Ann_. xv. 49. 48. Suet. _Ner_. 39. 49. It may be urged that the damage lies not in the loss of poetry suppressed by the Emperor, but in the generation of a type of court poetry, examples of which survive in their most repulsive form in the _Silvae_ of Statius and the epigrams of Martial. The objection has its element of truth, but only affects a very small and comparatively unimportant portion of the poetry of the age. 50. See Tacitus, _Dial._ 28 sqq. on the moral training of a young Roman of his day. Also Juv. xiv. 51. After the death of the great Augustan authors Alexandrian erudition becomes yet more rampant. It was a great assistance to men of second-rate poetical talent. 52. Quint, i. 1. 12. 53. Quint, i. 8. 3; Plin. _Ep._ ii. 14. 54. Quint, i. 9. 2; Cic. _Ep. ad Fam._ vi. 18. 5; Quint. i. 8. 6; Stat. _Silv._ ii. 1. 114; Ov. _Tr._ ii. 369. 55. Cp. Wilkins, _Rom. Education_, p. 60. 56. Op. Juv. vii. 231-6; Suet. _Tib._ 70. The result of this type of instruction is visible throughout the poets of the age, whereas Vergil and the best of the Greek Alexandrians had a true appreciation of the sensuous charm of proper names and legendary allusions, as in our literature had Marlowe, Milton, Keats, and Tennyson. Cp. Milton, _Paradise Lost_, Bk. 1: What resounds In fable or romance of Uther's son Begirt with British and Armoric knights; And all who since, baptised or infidel, Jousted in Aspramont or Montalban, Damasco, or Marocco, or Trebisond, Or whom Biserta sent from Afric shore, When Charlemain with all his peerage fell By Fontarabia. Or compare Tennyson's use of the names of Arthur's battles, 'Agned Cathregonion' and the 'waste sand-shore of Trath Treroit.' 57. Wilkins, _Roman Education_, p. 72. 58. See Wilkins, op. cit, p. 74. 59. Wilkins, _Roman Education_, p. 75.