The Roman Poets of the Republic, 3rd editionSellar, W. Y. (William Young)
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The Roman Poets of the Republic, 3rd edition
Sellar, W. Y. (William Young)
Latin poetry -- History and criticism
Cf. also Captivi, 778.]
[Footnote 5: The influence of Plautus may be traced in the
style of Catullus, and perhaps in the sentiment of the passage
in Lucretius, iv. 1121, etc.; and that of Terence also in
Catullus, and in the Satires, Epistles, and some of the Odes
of Horace.]
[Footnote 6: Fundanius, the friend of Horace, appears to have
made an attempt to produce an artistic revival of the old
comedy in the Augustan age, as Pollio, Varius, Ovid and others
did of the old tragic drama, but with no permanent success.]
[Footnote 7: E.g. the dance of Pseudolus. Pseud. 1246, etc.]
[Footnote 8: Cic. Brut. 15. 60; De Senec. 14. 50.]
[Footnote 9: Cf. Cicero's testimony to the purity of the style
of Naevius and Plautus with his criticism on the style of
Caecilius and Pacuvius. Terence was the only foreigner who
attained perfect idiomatic purity of speech, but he must have
been brought to Rome when quite a child.]
[Footnote 10: 'Puplicisne adfinis fuit an maritumis
negotiis?'--Trinum. 331.]
[Footnote 11: See the paper by Professor H. F. West, reprinted
from the American Journal of Philology, referred to supra page
54.]
[Footnote 12: Cf. the line at the end of the Prologue to the
Cistellaria (Act. i. Sc. 3)--
'Ut vobis victi Poeni poenas sufferant.'
The 'Didascalia' to the Stichus is one of the few preserved.
From it we learn that the play was acted P. Sulpicio, C.
Aurelio, Cos., i.e. 200 B.C.]
[Footnote 13: This is shown in some cases by reference to
seats in the theatre, which were not introduced till 155 B.C.
In the Prologue to the Casina it is said that only the older
men present could remember the first production of that play
in the life-time of the poet. The Prologues to the Aulularia,
Trinummus, and Rudens, are probably genuine, and also the
speech of _Auxilium_ in the Cistellaria.]
[Footnote 14: Cf. Rudens, 1249:--
Spectavi ego pridem comicos ad istum modum
Sapienter dicta dicere atque is plaudier,
Quom illos sapientis mores monstrabant poplo.
Set quom inde suam quisque ibant divorsi domum
Nullus erat illo pacto ut illi iusserant.]
[Footnote 15: Pseud. 687.]
[Footnote 16: E.g. Rudens, 986.]
[Footnote 17: Quid? Sarsinatis ecquast, si Umbram non
habes.--Mostel. 757.]
[Footnote 18: Post Ephesi sum natus, noenum in Apulis, noenum
Aminulae.--Mil. Glor. 653.
Quid tu per barbaricas urbes iuras? _Erg._ Quia enim item
asperae Sunt ut tuum victum autumabas esse.--Captiv. 884-5.]
[Footnote 19: Capt. 879; Trinum. 609; Truc. iii. 2. 23; Bacch.
24.]
[Footnote 20:
Quid tibi, malum, hic ante aedis clamitatiost?
An ruri censes te esse? apscede ab aedibus.--Most. 6. 7.]
[Footnote 21: Vol. ii, p. 440; Eng. Trans.]
[Footnote 22: Cf. Trinum. 820, etc.; Menaechmi, 228, etc.;
Stichus, 402, etc.]
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