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
but such mannerisms, which abound in Plautus, are extremely
rare in the younger poet.]
[Footnote 13: In the Heauton Timorumenos.]
[Footnote 14: 'This act was not worthy of you, Chaerea: for
even if it is quite fitting that I should receive such an
insult, all the same it was not fitting that it should come
from you.']
[Footnote 15: 'I am not so wanting in natural feeling or so
unschooled in its ways as not to know what love is capable
of.']
[Footnote 16: E.g. Andria, 115-136; 282-298; Heauton
Timorumenos, 273-301.]
[Footnote 17: The original of such expressions as--Appone
lucro; Dulce est desipere in loco; Rimosa quae deponuntur
in aure; Qua parte debacchentur ignes; Cena dubia; Paucorum
hominum et mentis bene sanae; Quam sapere et ringi; Quid non
ebrietas designat?--and others, are to be found in Terence.]
[Footnote 18: Eunuch. A. i. 1; cf. Hor. Sat. ii. 3, 260,
etc.]
[Footnote 19: 414, etc.]
[Footnote 20: 'Then I bid him look into the lives of men
as into a mirror, and to form for himself an example from
others.' 'Do this.' _Sy._ 'Quite right.' _De._ 'Avoid this.'
_Sy._ 'Cleverly said.' _De._ 'This is honourable.' _Sy._ 'That
is it.' _De._ 'This is discreditable.']
[Footnote 21: Cf. Ep. ad Fam. i. 9. 19; Phil. ii. 15.]
[Footnote 22: Ep. ad Att. vii. 3. 10.]
[Footnote 23: Essays of Montaigne, Cotton's Translation, ch.
lxvii.]
[Footnote 24: By E. Negrette, in his Histoire de la
Litterature Latine.]
[Footnote 25: Quint. x. 1, 100.]
CHAPTER VIII.
EARLY ROMAN SATIRE--C. LUCILIUS, DIED 102 B.C.
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