How does his style differ from that of Horace? 32. How does he deal with the Hellenizing tendencies of his time? 33. Give an outline of his satire upon the vanity of human wishes. 34. What is his solemn warning to parents? BIBLIOGRAPHY SIMCOX, _History of Latin Literature_: Early Satire, Lucilius, Vol. I, pp. 62-68; Horace, pp. 283-300; Persius, Vol. II, pp. 80-86; Juvenal, pp. 118-138. SELLAR, _The Roman Poets of the Republic_: Early Roman Satire, C. Lucilius, pp. 222-252. _The Roman Poets of the Augustan Age--Horace and the Elegiac Poets_: The Satires of Horace, pp. 51-84. TYRRELL, _Latin Poetry_: Horace and Lucilius, pp. 162-181; Latin Satire, pp. 216-259. NETTLESHIP, _The Original Form of the Roman Satura. Lectures and Essays_: Horace, Life and Poems, pp. 143-167. CONINGTON, _The Satires of Persius_, with translations and commentary: Lecture on Life and Writings of Persius, pp. xiii-xxxii. GIFFORD, _Satires of Juvenal and Persius_, translated into English verse: The Life of Juvenal, Vol. I, pp. xxxi-xlviii; The Roman Satirists, pp. xlix-lxxxii; Life and Satires of Persius, Vol. II, pp. v-xlvii. PEARSON AND STRONG, _Thirteen Satires of Juvenal_ (the best text edition with commentary): Life of Juvenal, pp. 9-46. PART III EPIC POETRY Who Show'd me that epic was of all the king, Round, vast, and spanning all, like Saturn's ring? 1. CN. NÆVIUS--THE FIRST NATIONAL ROMAN EPIC We have already seen how the national pride of Rome was stirred by the completed subjugation of Italy and the first successful step in foreign conquest as the result of the First Punic War, and how this quickened national pride gave a new impulse to literature. We have seen how from this period under the powerful stimulus of Greek influence the drama sprang into being in its literary form. And it was in this same soil of awakened national consciousness, and in this same atmosphere of Greek thought and expression that the Roman epic had its beginnings. The rude translation of Homer's _Odyssey_ made by Livius Andronicus is not to be considered in this connection, for this was produced with no national feeling, but only that he might have a text-book from which to instruct his Roman schoolboys in their native tongue. The honor of producing the first heroic poem in Roman literature belongs to Cn. Nævius, to whom Mommsen accords the high praise of "the first Roman who deserves to be called a poet." He was a native of the district of Campania, of plebeian family, of most sturdy and independent character. The period of his life falls approximately between the years 269 and 199 B. C. We know that he was a soldier in his earlier life, serving in the First Punic War in Sicily, that he was imprisoned for his bold attacks from the stage upon the noble family of the Metelli, and afterward banished to Africa, where he ended his days.