[Footnote 515: Hor. _Ep_. ii. 82; Quintil. ii. 3. Ill.] [Footnote 516: Val. Max. viii. 10. 2. Cicero was said to have learnt gesticulation both from Aesopus and Roscius.--Plut. _Cic_. 5.] [Footnote 517: Pliny, _N.H._ vii. 128.] [Footnote 518: _Pro Archia_, 8.] [Footnote 519: _De Oratore_, i. 28. 129.] [Footnote 520: _De Oratore_, iii. 27, 59.] [Footnote 521: A useful succinct account of the literature of this difficult subject will be found in Schanz, _Gesch. der rom. Litteratur_, vol. i. (ed. 3) p. 21 foll.] [Footnote 522: This is the view of Mommsen, _Hist_. iii. p. 455, which is generally accepted. For further information see Teuffel, _Hist. of Roman Literature_, i. (ed. 2) p. 9. That they were in fashion before the mimus is gathered from Cic. _ad Fam_. ix. 16.] [Footnote 523: Plut. _Sulla_, 2: ep. 36.] [Footnote 524: Political allusions in mimes, were, however, not unknown. Cp. Cic. _ad Alt_. xiv. 3, written in 44 B.C., after Caesar's death.] [Footnote 525: All the passages about Publilius are collected in Mr. Bickford Smith's edition of his _Sententiae_, p. 10 foll. On mimes generally the reader may be referred to Professor Purser's excellent article in Smith's _Diet. of Antiq_. ed. 2.] [Footnote 526: Animo aequissimo, _ad Fam_. xii. 19. He means perhaps rather that flattering allusions to Caesar did not hurt his feelings.] [Footnote 527: See Ribbeck, _Fragm. Comic. Lat_. p. 295 foll.] [Footnote 528: Seneca, _Epist_. 108. 8.] [Footnote 529: See another excellent article of Professor Purser's in the _Dict. of Antiq_.] [Footnote 530: See the _Hibbert Journal_ for July 1907, p. 847. In the second sense Cicero often uses the plural "religiones," esp. in _de Legibus_, ii.] [Footnote 531: See Middleton, _Rome in 1887_, p. 423; Horace, _Sat_. i. 8. 8 foll.; Nissen, _Italische Landeskunde_, ii. p. 522.] [Footnote 532: Fowler, _Roman Festivals_, p. 336 foll.] [Footnote 533: _Monumentum Ancyranum_ (Lat.), 4. 17.] [Footnote 534: _de Nat. Deor._ i. 29. 82.] [Footnote 535: Valerius Maximus, _Epit._ 3. 4; Wissowa, _Rel. und Kult._ p. 293.] [Footnote 536: See, e.g. Dill, _Roman Society from Nero to Marcus Aurelius_, ch. v.] [Footnote 537: See, e.g., _pro Sestio_, 15. 32; _in Vatinium_, 7. 18.] [Footnote 538: Augustine, _Civ. Dei_, iv. 27.] [Footnote 539: Cp. i. 63 foll.; iii. 87 and 894; v. 72 and 1218; and many other passages.] [Footnote 540: iii. 995 foll.; v. 1120 foll.] [Footnote 541: iii. 70; v. 1126.] [Footnote 542: ii. 22 foll.; iii. 1003; v. 1116.] [Footnote 543: _Roman Poets of the Republic_, p. 306.] [Footnote 544: The secret may be found in the last 250 lines of Bk. iii., and at the beginning and end of Bk. v.] [Footnote 545: v. 1203; ii. 48-54.] [Footnote 546: v. 1129.] [Footnote 547: "Philosophy has never touched the mass of mankind except through religion" (_Decadence_, by Rt. Hon. A.J. Balfour, p. 53). This is a truth of which Lucretius was profoundly, though not surprisingly, ignorant.]