One of many lines imitated and almost reproduced by Horace.] [Footnote 292: 'I will tell you how I am, though you don't ask me, since you are of the fashion of most men now, and would rather that the man whom you did not choose to visit, when you ought, had died. If you don't like this "nolueris" and "debueris," because it is the trick of Isocrates, and altogether nonsensical and puerile, I don't waste my time on the matter.' This passage illustrates two characteristics of Lucilius--his habit of mixing Greek with Latin words, and the attention he bestowed on technical rules of style.] [Footnote 293: Imitated by Horace in the lines:-- 'Nunc mihi curto Ire licet mulo, vel, si libet, usque Tarentum, Mantica cui lumbos onere ulceret, atque eques armos.' ] [Footnote 294: 'Promontorium remis superamu' Minervae.-- Hinc media remis Palinurum pervenio nox,-- Tertius hic mali superat decumanis fluctibus--carchesia summa.' ] [Footnote 295: Hor. Sat. ii. 2. 46:-- 'Haud ita pridem Galloni praeconis erat acipensere mensa Infamis.' ] [Footnote 296: 'Quo fit ut omnis Votiva pateat veluti descripta tabella Vita senis.' ] [Footnote 297: 'Secuit Lucilius urbem-- Primores populi arripuit populumque tributim-- Non ridet versus Enni gravitate minores--?' ] [Footnote 298: 'Mihi quidem non persuadetur publiceis mutem meos. Publicanu' vero ut Asiae fiam scriptuarius Pro Lucilio, id ego nolo, et uno hoc non muto omnia.' Cf. Hor. Ep. i. 7. 36; 'Nec Otia divitiis Arabum liberrima muto.' ] [Footnote 299: 'Quadque te in tranquillum ex saevis transfers tempestatibus.' ] [Footnote 300: 'Nam si quod satis est homini, id satis esse potisset Hoc sat erat; nam cum hoc non est, qui credimu' porro Divitias ullas animum mi explere potisse.' ] [Footnote 301: 'Nulli me invidere: non strabonem fieri saepius Deliciis me istorum.' ] [Footnote 302: 'O lapathe, ut jactare nec es sati cognitu' qui sis-- Quod sumptum atque epulas victu praeponis honesto.' ] [Footnote 303: 'Munifici comesque amicis nostris videamur viri-- Sic amici quaerunt animum, rem parasiti ac ditias.' Among the friends of Lucilius, besides Scipio and Laelius, were Aelius Stilo, Albinus, and Granius, whom Cicero quotes for his wit.] [Footnote 304: 'Querquera consequitur capitisque dolores Infesti mihi.-- Si tam corpu' loco validum ac regione maneret. Scriptoris quam vera manet sententia cordi.' ] [Footnote 305: 'Verum haec ludus ibi susque omnia deque fuerunt, Susque et deque fuere, inquam, omnia ludu' iocusque.' ] [Footnote 306: 'Et saepe quod ante Optasti, freta Messanae, Regina videbis Moenia.' ] [Footnote 307: