Cæcilius wrote more than 30 comedies, now lost. NOTE 44. _Licinius._ Publius Licinius Tegula, a comic poet, flourished during the _second Punic war_. Aulus Gellius mentions him by the name of Caius Licinius Imbrex, author of a comedy called Neæra, but there can be little doubt but that Imbrex, and the Tegula above-mentioned were the same person. NOTE 45. _Cicero in his_ ΛΕΙΜΩΝ. “Cicero wrote a poem, to which he affixed the title of λειμων, a Greek word signifying _a meadow_; he gave it this name, probably, because, as meadows are filled with various kinds of flowers, his work was a numerous collection of flowers (_of literature_) affording an agreeable variety. This poem, it seems, consisted entirely of panegyrics on illustrious persons. Nothing can be more erroneous than a supposition that these verses were the forgery of some grammarian: the Latin is too elegant, and they are too finely written, to allow us to suppose them a spurious production; and if Cicero had never written any lines inferior to these; his fame as a poet, might have equalled his fame as an orator. Ausonius had these verses in his mind, when he wrote Tu quoque qui Latium lecto sermone Terenti, Comis, et astricto percurris pulpita socco. What is still more remarkable, Cæsar commences his lines on Terence, in Cicero’s words, Tu quoque, &c., for there is not the least doubt but that Cæsar undertook this work, merely with a view to irritate, and to contradict Cicero.” MADAME DACIER. The name of Cicero is too well known, to need any further mention here; suffice it to say, that this great orator was totally unsuccessful in his poetical attempts, the chief fault of which was want of harmony in the measure: it may be remarked of Cicero, that very frequently his prose was written with the music of verse, and his verse with the roughness of prose. NOTE 46. _Caius Julius Cæsar._ The poem, of which these lines formed a part, is entirely lost; what remains of it, however, proves Julius Cæsar to have been no mean poet, but he seems to have excelled in every art of war and peace;―― quem Marte, togâque Præcipium. The first alike in war, and peace. OVID. If the lines quoted by Suetonius were written in ridicule of Cicero, they are another proof in support of an opinion that has been very prevalent, that the orator was not very high in the good graces of Cæsar, whose dislike of him may be easily traced to Marc Antony, Cæsar’s intimate and favourite companion, and the most inveterate enemy of Cicero. NOTE 47. _The Megalesian Games._