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
[Footnote 3: Vell. Paterc. ii. 9. The service of Lucilius in
Spain seems to be confirmed by a line in one of his Satires:--
Publiu' Pavu' mihi [ ] quaestor Hibera
In terra fuit, lucifugus, nebulo, id genu' sane.]
[Footnote 4: Hor. Sat. ii. I. 71-5.]
[Footnote 5: Cf. L. Mueller's edition of the Fragments.]
[Footnote 6:
Quo facetior videare et scire plus quam caeteri
Pertisum hominem, non pertaesum dices.
The comment of Festus shows that these words were addressed by
Lucilius to Scipio.]
[Footnote 7: Cic. de Fin. i. 3.]
[Footnote 8: Journal of Philology, vol. viii. 16.]
[Footnote 9:
Iucundasque puer qui lamberat ore placentas.
One of many lines imitated and almost reproduced by Horace.]
[Footnote 10: 'I will tell you how I am, though you don't ask
me, since you are of the fashion of most men now, and would
rather that the man whom you did not choose to visit, when
you ought, had died. If you don't like this "nolueris"
and "debueris," because it is the trick of Isocrates, and
altogether nonsensical and puerile, I don't waste my time on
the matter.' This passage illustrates two characteristics of
Lucilius--his habit of mixing Greek with Latin words, and the
attention he bestowed on technical rules of style.]
[Footnote 11: Imitated by Horace in the lines:--
Nunc mihi curto
Ire licet mulo, vel, si libet, usque Tarentum,
Mantica cui lumbos onere ulceret, atque eques armos.]
[Footnote 12:
Promontorium remis superamu' Minervae.--
Hinc media remis Palinurum pervenio nox.--
Tertius hic mali superat decumanis fluctibus--carchesia summa.]
[Footnote 13: Hor. Sat. ii. 2. 46:--
Haud ita pridem
Galloni praeconis erat acipensere mensa
Infamis.]
[Footnote 14:
Quo fit ut omnis
Votiva pateat veluti descripta tabella
Vita senis.]
[Footnote 15:
Secuit Lucilius urbem--
Primores populi arripuit populumque tributim--
Non ridet versus Enni gravitate minores--?]
[Footnote 16:
Mihi quidem non persuadetur publiceis mutem meos.
Publicanu' vero ut Asiae fiam scriptuarius
Pro Lucilio, id ego nolo, et uno hoc non muto omnia.
Cf. Hor. Ep. i. 7. 36:--
Nec
Otia divitiis Arabum liberrima muto.]
[Footnote 17:
Quodque te in tranquillum ex saevis transfers tempestatibus.]
[Footnote 18:
Nam si quod satis est homini, id satis esse potisset,
Hoc sat erat; nam cum hoc non est, qui credimu' porro
Divitias ullas animum mi explere potisse.]
[Footnote 19:
Nulli me invidere: non strabonem fieri saepius
Deliciis me istorum.]
[Footnote 20:
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