Somnia, terrores magicos, miracula, sagas, Nocturnos lemures portentaque Thessala rides?' ] [Footnote 321: De Fin. i. 3.] [Footnote 322: 'You preferred, Albucius, to be called a Greek, rather than a Roman or Sabine, a fellow-countryman of the Centurions, Pontius, Tritannius, excellent, first-rate men, and our standard-bearers. Accordingly, I, as praetor of Athens, when you approach me, greet you, as you wished to be greeted. "Chaere," I say, Titus; my lictors, escort, staff, address you with "Chaere." Hence you are to me a public and private enemy.'] [Footnote 323: 'Et Pacuvius, et Pacuvio jam sene Accius, clariorque tunc in poematis eorum obtrectandis Lucilius fuit.'] [Footnote 324: E.g. 'Ego enim contemnificus fieri et fastidire Agamemnona.-- Di monerint meliora, amentiam averruncassint tuam.-- Hic cruciatur fame, Frigore, inluvie, inperfundie, inbalnite, incuria.-- Nunc ignobilitas his mirum, taetrum, ac monstrificabile-- Dividant, differant, dissipent, distrahant.' ] [Footnote 325: In the same spirit is the following line:-- 'Verum tristis contorto aliquo ex Pacuviano exordio.' And this from another book of Satires:-- 'Ransuro tragicus qui carmina perdit Oreste.' Among the phrases of Ennius at which Lucilius carped was one which Virgil did not disdain to adopt. The passage of the old poet,-- 'Hastis longis campus splendet et horret,'-- parodied by the Satirist in the form 'horret et alget,' was justified by being reproduced in the Virgilian phrase, 'Tum late ferreus hastis Horret ager.' ] [Footnote 326: 'Virtue, Albinus, consists in being able to give their true worth to the things on which we are engaged, among which we live. The virtue of a man is to understand the real meaning of each thing: to understand what is right, useful, honourable for him; what things are good, what bad, what is unprofitable, base, dishonourable; to know the due limit and measure in making money; to give its proper worth to wealth; to assign what is really due to honour; to be a foe and enemy of bad men and bad principles; to stand by good men and good principles; to extol the good, to wish them well, to be their friend through life. Lastly, it is true worth to look on our country's weal as the chief good; next to that, the weal of our parents; third and last, our own weal.'] [Footnote 327: 'But now from morning till night, on holiday and work-day, the whole day alike, common people and senators are bustling about within the Forum, never quitting it--all devoting themselves to the same practice and trick of wary word-fencing, fighting craftily, vying with each other in politeness, assuming airs of virtue, plotting against each other as if all were enemies.'] [Footnote 328: Cp. Mr. Munro's criticism in the Journal of Philology.] [Footnote 329: Passages of Lucilius apparently imitated by Lucretius:--