513. This accumulation is probably due to the lack of revision. _obvius ... pavor_ fits the context ill and is curiously reminiscent of I. 392 ('iam stabulis gregibusque pavor strepitusque sepulcris inciderat'), while II. 400-2 would probably have been considerably altered had the poem undergone its final correction. There are other indications of the unfinished character of the work to be found in this passage (p. 181, note). 514. Cp. also viii. 10, where Medea bids farewell to her home. 'O my father, would thou mightest give me now thy last embrace, as I fly to exile, and mightest behold these my tears. Believe me, father, I love not him I follow more than thee: would that the stormy deep might whelm us both. And mayest thou long hold thy realm, grown old in peace and safety, and mayest thou find thy children that remain more dutiful than me.' 515. Ap. Rh. iii. 1105 sqq.; cp. also Murray on Apollonius in his _History of Greek Literature_, p. 382. 516. _Silv._ v. 3. 116 sqq. 517. Ib. 146 sqq. 518. Ib. 163. 519. Ib. 141. 520. Ib. 195-208. This passage suggests that the elder Statius died soon after 79 A.D. On the other hand, he probably lived some years longer as the _Thebais_, inspired and directed by him, was not begun till 80 A.D. He must, however, have died before 89 A.D., the earliest date assignable to Statius' victory at the Alban contest. 521. _Silv._ v. 3. 225. 522. Juv. vii. 86. Paris had fallen from imperial favour by 83 A.D. Dio. lxvii. 3. 1. 523. _Silv._ v. 3. 215. 524. Juv. vii. 82. 525. _Silv._ v. 3. 227. The subject of his prize recitation was the triumph of Domitian over the Germans and Dacians; i.e. after 89 A.D. 526. Praef. _Silv._ i. 'pro Thebaide quamvis me reliquerit timeo.' The first book of the _Silvae_ was published in 92 A.D. For the time taken for its composition and the poet's anticipations of immortality see _Th._ xii. 811 sqq. 527. See previous note. 528. _Silv._ iii. 5. 28, v. 3. 232. The Agon Capitolinus was instituted in 86 A.D. The contests falling in Statius' lifetime are those of 86, 90, 94 A.D. As his failure is always mentioned after the Alban victory, 94 A.D. would seem the most probable date. 529. Rutilius Gallicus had just died when the first book was published; cp. Praef., bk. i. This took place in 92 A.D.; cp. _C.I.L._ v. 6988, vi. 1984. 8. _Silv._ iv. 1 celebrates Domitian's seventeenth consulate (95 A.D.). 530. See previous note. 531. Such at least is a legitimate inference from the fact that it is not mentioned before the fourth and fifth books of the _Silvae_; cp. iv. 4. 94, iv. 7. 23, v. 2. 163. 532. Written probably in 95 A.D. Statius promises such a work in _Silv._ iv. 4. 95. Four lines are quoted from it in G. Valla's scholia on Juv. iv. 94: lumina: Nestorei mitis prudentia Crispi et Fabius Veiento (potentem signat utrumque purpura, ter memores implerunt nomine fastos), et prope Caesareae confinis Acilius aulae.