The intellectual, as well as the moral and social peculiarities of the age were noted by Lucilius. One fragment is directed against the terrors of superstition, and shows that Lucilius, like all the older poets, was endowed with that strong secular sense which enabled the educated Romans, notwithstanding the forms and ceremonies of religion encompassing every private and public act, to escape, in all their ordinary relations, from supernatural influences. This passage affords a fair specimen of the continuous style of the author:-- Terriculas Lamias, Fauni quas Pompiliique Instituere Numae, tremit has, hic omnia ponit; Ut pueri infantes credunt signa omnia ahena Vivere, et esse homines; et sic isti omnia ficta Vera putant, credunt signis cor inesse in ahenis; Pergula pictorum, veri nihil, omnia ficta.[320] His attitude to philosophy, like his attitude to superstitious terrors, was not unlike that of Horace. We find mention in his fragments of the 'Socratici charti,' of the 'eidola atque atomus Epicuri' of the four στοιχεῖα of Empedocles, of the 'mutatus Polemon,' spoken of in Horace (Sat. ii. 3, 253), of Aristippus, and of Carneades; but his own wisdom was that of the world and not of the schools. In these lines,-- Paenula, si quaeris, canteriu', servu', segestre, Utilior mihi, quam sapiens; and-- Nondum etiam, qui haec omnia habebit, Formosus, dives, liber, rex solu' feretur, we find an anticipation of the tones in which Horace satirised the professors of Stoicism in his own time. The affectation of Greek manners and tastes is ridiculed in the person of Titus Albutius, in a passage which Cicero describes as written 'with much grace and pungent wit[321].' Graecum te, Albuci, quam Romanum atque Sabinum, Municipem Ponti, Tritanni, Centurionum, Praeclarorum hominum ac primorum signiferumque, Maluisti dici. Graece ergo praetor Athenis, Id quod maluisti, te, cum ad me accedi,' saluto: Chaere, inquam, Tite. Lictores turma omni' cohorsque Chaere, Tite. Hinc hostis mi, Albucius, hinc inimicus.[322]