[Footnote 39: Gellius, xvii. 21.] [Footnote 40: He speaks of Eurydice as the wife of Aeneas. This statement he is supposed to have derived from the _Cypria_.] [Footnote 41: Cicero, Arch. 9.] [Footnote 42: 'Wisdom is banished from amongst us, violence rules the day: the good orator is despised, the rough soldier loved; striving, not with words of learning, but with words of hate, they get embroiled in feuds, and stir up enmity one with another. They challenge not their adversaries to contend by forms of law, but claim their rights by the sword, and aim at sovereign power, and make their way by sheer force.'] [Footnote 43: Cic. De Off. i. 12.] [Footnote 44: 'Neither do I ask gold for myself, nor offer ye to me a ransom. Let us wage the war, not like hucksters, but like soldiers--with the sword, not with gold, putting our lives to the issue. Whether our mistress Fortune wills that you or I should reign, or what her purpose be, let us prove by valour. And hearken too to this saying,--The brave men, whom the fortune of battle spares, their liberty I have resolved to spare. Take my offer, as I grant it, under favour of the great gods.'] [Footnote 45: 'Whither have your minds, which heretofore were wont to stand firm, madly swerved from the straight course?'] [Footnote 46: A comparison with the original passage (Iliad vi. 506) will show that Ennius, while reproducing much, though not all, of the force and life of Homer's image, has added also some touches of his own:-- [Greek: hos d' hote tis statos hippos, akostesas epi phatne, desmon aporrhexas theie pedioio kroainon, eiothos louesthai eurrheios potamoio, kydioon; hypsou de kare echei, amphi de chaitai omois aissontai; ho d' aglaiephi pepoithos, rhimpha he gouna pherei meta t' ethea kai nomon hippon.] Cf. Virgil, Aen. xi. 492:-- Qualis ubi abruptis fugit praesepia vinclis Tandem liber equus, campoque potitus aperto Aut ille in pastus armentaque tendit equarum, Aut adsuetus aquae perfundi flumine noto Emicat, arrectisque fremit cervicibus alte Luxurians, luduntque jubae per colla, per armos.] [Footnote 47: 'They watch, as when the consul is going to give the signal, all look eagerly to the barrier, to see how soon he may start the chariots from the painted entrance.'] [Footnote 48: Olli subridens hominum sator atque deorum Voltu, quo caelum tempestatesque serenat.--Aen. i. 254.] [Footnote 49: [Greek: Ennios Rhomaios poietes; hon Ailianos epainein axion phesi.... delon de hos etethepei tou poietou ten megalonoian kai ton metron to megaleion kai axiagaston.] Suidas, vol i. p. 1258, ed. Gaisford.] [Footnote 50: Cf. Iliad xxiii. 114-120; and also Virgil, Aen. vi. 179:--