[Footnote 13: 'He finished: and summons to him one with whom often, and right gladly, he shared his table, his talk, and the whole weight of his business, when weary with debate, throughout the day, on high affairs of state, within the wide Forum and the august Senate,--one to whom he could frankly speak out serious matters, trifles, and jest; to whom he could pour forth and safely confide, if he wanted to confide in any one, all that he cared to utter, good or bad; with whom, in private and in public, he had much entertainment and enjoyment,--a man of that nature which no thought ever prompts to baseness through levity or malice: a learned, honest, pleasant man, eloquent, contented, and cheerful, of much tact, speaking well in season; courteous and of few words; with much old buried lore; whom length of years had made versed in old and recent ways; in the laws of many ancients, divine and human; one who knew when to speak and when to be silent. Him, during the battle, Servilius thus addresses.'] [Footnote 14: [Greek: Skipiona gar adon kai epi mega ton andra exarai boulomenos phesi monon an Homeron epaxious epainous eipein Skipionos.]--Aelian, as quoted by Suidas, vol. i. p. 1258. Ed. Gaisford. Cf. Vahlen.] [Footnote 15: 'Here is he laid, to whom no one, either countryman or enemy, has been able to pay a due meed for his services.'] [Footnote 16: 'From the utmost east, beyond the Maeotian marsh, there is no one who in actions can vie with me. If it is lawful for any one to ascend to the realms of the gods, to me alone the vast gate of heaven is opened!'] [Footnote 17: 'Yet nothing more glorious than this man doth it (the island of Sicily) seem to have contained, nor aught more holy, nor more wonderful and beloved.'] [Footnote 18: 'Behold, my countrymen, the bust of the old man, Ennius. He penned the record of your fathers' mighty deeds. Let no one pay to me the meed of tears, nor weep at my funeral. And why? because I still live, as I speed to and fro, through the mouths of men.'] [Footnote 19: 'Hail, poet Ennius, who pledgest to mortals thy fiery verse from thy inmost marrow.'] [Footnote 20: 'Others have treated the subject in the verses, which in days of old the Fauns and bards used to sing, before any one had climbed the cliffs of the Muses, or gave any care to style.'] [Footnote 21: 'I have always said and will say that the gods of heaven exist, but I think that they heed not the conduct of mankind; for, if they did, it would be well with the good and ill with the bad; and it is not so now.'] [Footnote 22: Cor jubet hoc Enni, postquam destertuit esse Maeonides, Quintus pavone ex Pythagoreo. Persius, vi. 10 (ed. Jahn).] [Footnote 23: Vahlen.] [Footnote 24: Horace, Sat. ii. 4.]