CORRIGENDA ET ADDENDA. Page xii, line 25 from top, _for_ Ampitryo _read_ Amphitryo. " 43, note, _for_ Altus _read_ Attus. " 90, line 26 from top, _for_ Fos _read_ Flos. " 157, note 2, add the words, 'Terence, who was by birth a foreigner, was probably brought to Rome as a child.' " 194, line 25 from top, _for_ The Italian liveliness, &c., made them, _read_ Their liveliness, &c., made the Italians. " 194, third line from bottom, _for_ nisim _read_ nisam. " 213, line 12 from top, _for_ Æschylus _read_ Æschinus. " 215, note, _for_ debacehentur _read_ debacchentur. " 230, foot of the page, _for_ divitias _read_ divitiis. " 287, line 12 from top, _for_ arbonis _read_ arboris. " 289, line 16 from top, _for_ ardera _read_ ardua. " 289, line 32 from top, _for_ and _read_ or. " 296, line 9 from bottom, _for_ by _read_ to. " 343, line 7 from bottom, _for_ fungiferentis _read_ frugiferentis. " 413, note 1, add the words, 'Cicero also, in his letters to Caelius, addresses him as mi Rufe,' Ep. II. 9. 3, 12. 2. THE ROMAN POETS OF THE REPUBLIC. CHAPTER I. GENERAL CHARACTER OF ROMAN POETRY. A great fluctuation of opinion has taken place, among scholars and critics, in regard to the worth of Latin poetry. From the revival of learning till comparatively a recent period, the poets of ancient Rome, and especially those of the Augustan age, were esteemed the purest models of literary art, and were the most familiar exponents of the life and spirit of antiquity. Their works were the chief instruments of the higher education. They were studied, imitated, and translated by some of the greatest poets of modern Europe; and they supplied their favourite texts and illustrations to moralists and humourists, from Montaigne to the famous English essayists who flourished during the last century. Up to a still later period, their words were habitually used by statesmen to add weight to their arguments or point to their invectives. Perhaps no other writers have, for so long a period, exercised so powerful an influence, not only on literary style and taste, but on the character and understanding, of educated men in the leading nations of the modern world.