[104] TIBULLUS: _Eleg._, i. 3. “Quod si fatales iam nunc explevimus annos,” to the end of the Elegy. [105] TIB. i. 3 (sub finem). [106] PROPERTIUS: _Eleg._, ii. 13, 28; iv. 5, 23 sqq.; iv. 4. [107] TIB., i. 10. [108] LUCAN: _Pharsalia_, i. 670. [109] The basis of the work of Augustus, and of the religious reforms inaugurated or developed by him, is laid in the recognition of a fact noted by Balbus in CIC., _De Nat. Deorum_, lib. ii. 3. “Eorum imperiis rempublicam amplificatam qui religionibus paruissent. Et si conferre volumus nostra cum externis, ceteris rebus aut pares aut etiam inferiores reperiemur; religione, id est, cultu deorum, multo superiores.” Cf. HORACE: _Od._, iii. 6, vv. 1-4; LIVY, xlv. 39. [110] HOR.: _Od._, iii. 6. [111] See BOISSIER: _Religion Romaine_, vol. i. cap. 5.—_Le Sixième Livre de l’Enéide_. St. Augustine must surely have felt the _religious_ influence of the Æneid when he experienced the emotion which he describes in the well-known passage in the First Book of the Confessions—_plorare Didonem mortuam (cogebar), quia se occidit ob amorem: cum interea meipsum morientem, Deus Vita mea, siccis occulis ferrem miserrimus_. (Lib. i. cap. xiii.) [112] OVID: _Fasti_, 4, 203; cf. _Meta._, i. sec. 8. [113] See the Life of Persius, included, with the Lives of Terence, Horace, Juvenal, Lucan, and Pliny the Elder, in the writings of Suetonius. [114] MACLEANE’S _Persius_.—Introduction. [115] PERSIUS: _Sat._, v. 62-64.—_At te nocturnis juvat impallescere chartis, Cultor enim juvenum purgatas inseris aures Fruge Cleanthea._ [116] _Pharsalia_, ix. 554-555. [117] _Pharsalia_, ix. 570. We have not been able to refrain from quoting these—as other—well-known verses in the text. They are the highest expression of the Stoic Pantheism. “_Virtus_” has the appearance of a rhetorical climax; but has it been noticed that the great modern poet of Pantheism—for what else was Wordsworth?—also makes humanity the highest embodiment of that “presence ... Whose dwelling is the light of setting suns, And the round ocean and the living air, And the blue sky, _and in the mind of man_?” [118] _Quis labor hic superis_, &c., vi. 490, _et passim_. [119] _Felices errore suo_, &c., i. 459. [120] Scrutabitur scholas nostras, et obiiciet philosophis congiaria, amicas, gulam: ostendet mihi alium in adulterio, alium in popina, alium in aula.—SENECA: _Epist._, i. 29. [121] PHILOSTRATUS, i. 7. The quaint turn of the version in the text is from BLOUNT’S 1681 translation of the _Life of Apollonius_. [122] DION: _Oratio_ 32, pp. 402-3 (Dindorf). [123] See DION: _De Cognitione Dei_ (pp. 213-4) for an interesting comparison between the owl and the philosopher on the one hand, and the sophist and the peacock on the other. (Cf. _Ad Alexandrinos_, p. 406, where the sufferings of the faithful philosopher are in implied contrast to the rewards that await the brilliant sophist.)