Haece locutu' vocat quocum bene saepe libenter Mensam sermonesque suos rerumque suarum Congeriem partit, magnam cum lassu' diei Partem fuisset de summis rebu' regendis Consilio, indu foro lato sanctoque senatu: Cui res audacter magnas parvasque jocumque Eloqueretur, cuncta simul malaque et bona dictu Evomeret, si qui vellet, tutoque locaret. Quocum multa volup ac gaudia clamque palamque! Ingenium cui nulla malum sententia suadet Ut faceret facinus levis aut malu', doctu', fidelis, Suavis homo, facundu', suo contentu', beatus, Scitu', secunda loquens in tempore, commodu', verbum Paucum, multa tenens antiqua sepulta, vetustas Quem fecit mores veteresque novosque tenentem, Multorum veterum leges divumque hominumque; Prudenter qui dicta loquive tacereve possit. Hunc inter pugnas Servilius sic compellat[13]. There are many touches in this picture, which suggest the kind of intimacy in which Ennius may have lived with Fulvius Nobilior when accompanying him in his Aetolian campaign, or his bearing when taking part in the light or serious talk of the Scipios. The learning and power of speech, the knowledge of antiquity and of the manners of the day, attributed to this friend of Servilius, were gifts which we may attribute to the poet both on ancient testimony and on the evidence afforded by the fragments of his writings. The good sense, tact, and knowledge of the world, the cheerfulness in life and conversation, the honour and integrity of character represented in the same passage, are among the personal qualities which, in all ages, form a bond of union between men eminent in great practical affairs and men eminent in literature. Such were the qualities which, according to his own account, recommended Horace to the intimate friendship of Maecenas. Many expressive fragments from the lost poetry of Ennius give assurance that he was a man in whom learning and the ardent temperament of genius were happily united with the worth and sense described in this nameless portrait.