[Footnote 106: 'When I begat them, I knew that they must die, and to that end I bred them. Besides, when I sent them to Troy to fight for Greece, I was well aware that I was sending them, not to a feast, but to a deadly war.'] [Footnote 107: 'Such is my nature. Enmity and friendship equally I bear stamped on my forehead.'] [Footnote 108: 'Ennio delector, ait quispiam, quod non discedit a communi ordine verborum.'--Orator, 11.] [Footnote 109: Cicero, Brutus, 15; Aulus Gellius, xii. 2.] [Footnote 110: 'He was called by those, his fellow-countrymen, who flourished then and enjoyed their day, the chosen flower of the people, and the marrow of persuasion.'] [Footnote 111: Compare his account of the Tribune in the Istrian war: 'Undique conveniunt velut imber, tela tribuno,' etc. ] [Footnote 112: Cf. 'Unus homo nobis cunctando restituit rem,' etc.] [Footnote 113: Cf. 'Ita sapere opino esse optimum, ut pro viribus Tacere ac fabulare tute noveris;' also 'Ea libertas est quae pectus purum et firmum gestitat.' ] [Footnote 114: 'Egregie cordatus homo catus Aeliu' Sextus.'] [Footnote 115: 'In idleness the mind knows not what it wants. This is now our case. We are neither now at home nor abroad. We go hither, back again to the place from which we came,--when we have reached it we desire to leave it again. Our mind is all astray--existence goes on outside of real life.'] [Footnote 116: iii. 1059-67.] [Footnote 117: 'But your superstitious prophets and impudent fortune-tellers, idle fellows, or madmen, or the victims of want, who cannot discern the path for themselves, yet point the way out to others, and ask a drachma from the very persons to whom they promise a fortune.'] [Footnote 118: 'And there it is announced to Julianus that a certain public reader, an accomplished man, with a very well-trained and musical voice, read the Annals of Ennius publicly in the theatre. Let us go, says he, to hear this "Ennianista," whoever he is,--for by that name he chose to be called.--Aulus Gellius, xviii. 5. The following line of Martial (v. 10. 7) implies also his popularity under the Empire-- 'Ennius est lectus, salvo tibi, Roma, Marone.' ] [Footnote 119: 'Let us venerate Ennius like the groves, sacred from their antiquity, in which the great and ancient oak-trees are invested not so much with beauty as with sacred associations.'--Inst. Or. x. i. 88.] [Footnote 120: 'Ennius, the wise and strong, and the second Homer, as his critics will have it, seems to care little for the issue of all his promises and Pythagorean dreams.'--Epist. II. i. 50-2.] [Footnote 121: The name _Romais_ given to the Annals in a later age indicates the appreciation of this national inspiration.] CHAPTER V. EARLY ROMAN TRAGEDY--M. PACUVIUS, B.C. 219-129; L. ACCIUS, B.C. 170-ABOUT B.C. 90.