Romulus in caelo cum dis genitalibus aevum Degit. There is no allusion in these fragments to the Carthaginian adventures of Aeneas, which Naevius had introduced into his poem on the First Punic War. Aeneas seems at once to have been brought to Hesperia, a land, Quam prisci casci populi tenuere Latini. Ilia is represented as the daughter of Aeneas. The birth and infancy of Romulus and Remus appear to have been described at great length. In commenting on Virgil's lines at Aeneid viii. 630-- Fecerat et viridi fetam Mavortis in antro Procubuisse lupam: geminos huic ubera circum Ludere pendentes pueros, et lambere matrem Impavidos; illam tereti cervice reflexam Mulcere alternos, et corpora fingere lingua,-- Servius says 'Sane totus hic locus Ennianus est.' The second and third books contained the history of the remaining Roman kings. Virgil imitated the description given in these books of the destruction of Alba (the story of which is told by Livy also with much poetic power, perhaps reproduced from the pages of Ennius), in his account of the capture of Troy, at Aeneid ii. 486-- At domus interior gemitu miseroque tumultu, etc. One short fragment of the third book contains a picturesque notice of the founding of Ostia-- Ostia munita est; idem loca navibu' pulchris Munda facit; nautisque mari quaesentibu' vitam. This line also Postquam lumina sis oculis bonus Ancu' reliquit is familiar from its reappearance in one of the most impressive passages of Lucretius. The fourth and fifth books contained the history of the State from the establishment of the Republic till just before the beginning of the war with Pyrrhus. One short fragment is taken from the night attack of the Gauls upon the Capitol. The sixth book was devoted to the war with Pyrrhus; the seventh, eighth, and ninth, to the First and Second Punic Wars. In the fragments of the sixth are found a few lines of the speeches of Pyrrhus, and of Appius Claudius Caecus. In the account of the First Punic War, the disparaging allusion to Naevius occurs-- Scripsere alii rem, etc. It is mentioned by Cicero that Ennius borrowed much from the work of Naevius; and also that he passed over (_reliquisse_) the First Punic War, as it had been treated by his predecessor. Several fragments however must certainly refer to this war; but it is probable that that part of the subject was treated more cursorily than either the war with Pyrrhus, or the later wars. The passage in which the poet is supposed to have painted his own character, under the form of a friend of Servilius Geminus, occurred in the seventh book. Two well-known passages have been preserved from the ninth book--viz. that characterising the 'sweet-speaking' orator, M. Cornelius Cethegus-- Flos delibatus populi suadaeque medulla, and the lines in honour of Q. Fabius Maximus, Unus homo nobis cunctando restituit rem, etc. The tenth and eleventh books, beginning with a new invocation to the muse--