_Cean_, sc. Simonides, circa 520 B.C. _Lesbian_, sc. Sappho, circa 600 B.C. _Aedituus_, _Porcius_, _Catulus_, erotic epigrammatists of the Republican period, 130-100 B.C. The latter was Marius' colleague in the Cimbrian wars. _Solon._ The line ascribed to Solon is almost too gross in the original to be genuine. _Diogenes_, the founder of the Cynic school (died 324 B.C.), wrote 'concerning marriage and the begetting of children' in an erotic fashion. Diog. Laert. vi. 2. 12. _Zeno_ of Citium, founder of the Stoic school (died 264 B.C.), wrote an 'art of love'. Diog. Laert. vii. 21. 29. CHAPTER 10. _Ticidas_, an erotic poet, contemporary with Catullus and, like him, belonging to the Alexandrian school. _Lucilius_, the first of Rome's great satirists (148-103 B.C.), famous for the extraordinary vigour with which he lashed the vices of the age. The allusion in the present passage is unknown, though a fragment is preserved containing the name of Macedo and possibly also of Gentius (cp. Baehrens, Fragm. Poet. Rom., p. 168). _the Mantuan poet._ Vergil, Ecl. ii. _Serranus_, the cognomen of Atilius Regulus, consul 257 B.C., the famous Regulus of the first Punic war. _Curius_ Dentatus, thrice consul, and victor over the Samnites and Pyrrhus. _Fabricius_, general in the war against Pyrrhus. Consul in 282 and 278 B.C. These three great soldiers were selected as types of Roman virtue. Cp. Verg. Aen. vi. 485. _Dion_, brother-in-law and son-in-law of Dionysius II, tyrant of Syracuse, the friend and pupil of Plato, and for a brief space tyrant of Syracuse. CHAPTER 11. _Catullus_ xvi. 5. _Hadrian_, Emperor, 117-138 A.D. _Voconius_, mentioned here only. CHAPTER 12. _Venus is not one goddess but two._ For this doctrine see Plato's Symposium, p. 181. _Afranius_, the most famous writer of purely Roman comedy (_fabulae togatae_), floruit circa 110 B.C. CHAPTER 13. _Ennius_ (239-169 B.C.), the 'father of Roman Poetry'. Cp. Cic. de Or. ii. 156 'ac sic decrevi philosophari potius ut Neoptolemus apud Ennium "paucis: nam omnino haud placet"'. _the mirror_, clearly regarded by the accusers, though Apuleius does not say so, as a magical instrument. CHAPTER 15. _The Lacedaemonian Agesilaus_, the greatest of the Spartan kings, 440-360 B.C. Cp. Cic. ad Fam. v. 12. _Socrates._ Cp. Diog. Laert. ii. 5, 33. _Demosthenes_ and _Plato_. Cp. Quint. xii. 2. 22 and 10. 23. _Eubulides_, a sophist of Miletus. Cp. Diog. Laert. ii. 10. 4. _the orator when he wrangles_, &c. The pun on _iurgari_, 'wrangles,' and _obiurgari_, 'rebukes,' can scarcely be reproduced. 'Disproves' and 'disapproves' would weaken the translation. _Epicurus_ of Samos, born 342 B.C. For his views on vision cp. Lucret. iv. 156, on mirrors, 293.