[45] The latter part of this statement is worthless: Augustus was only a child when Virgil came to Rome. [46] Probus is manifestly wrong in saying that the distribution of land took place 'post _Mutinense_ bellum.' [47] For details see H. Nettleship, _Ancient Lives of Vergil_, who holds that there was really only one eviction. [48] The writings of Augustus are enumerated by Sueton. Aug. 85--(1) _Rescripta Bruto de Catone_, a reply to Brutus' pamphlet on Cato; (2) _Hortationes ad Philosophiam_; (3) _De Vita Sua_; (4) Life of Drusus (Sueton. _Claud._ 1); (5) Poems: 'Sicily' in hexameters, Epigrams and Fescennine verses; a tragedy, 'Ajax' (never finished). [49] Servius wrote 'triennio' perhaps because he thought only of the dates of _Ecl._ 1 and 10 (H. Nettleship, _ibid._). [50] C. Schaper's view is that _Ecls._ 4, 6, and 10 were not written till B.C. 27-25 for a second edition. He supposes _Ecl._ 6 to allude to the marriage of Marcellus and Julia in 25 (referring 6, 3 to the _Aeneid_), and _Ecl._ 10 to be a lament for Gallus, who committed suicide B.C. 27. [51] Iulus is properly spelt Iullus (as in inscriptions), and is for Iovillos, a diminutive from the stem of Iuppiter. [52] L. Orbilius Pupillus of Beneventum, who in his Περιαλγής complained of the wrongs of his profession (Sueton. _Gramm._ 4 and 9). [53] Maecenas wrote, besides smaller prose works, a history of his own times (Hor. _Od._ ii. 12, 9; Pliny, _N.H._ vii. 148). [54] For Horace's relations to Propertius see _Ep._ ii. 2, 91-101, and under '_Propertius_,' p. 196. [55] See G. Boissier, _Nouvelles Promenades Archéologiques: Horace et Virgile_ (Paris, 1886). [56] Dr. A. W. Verrall's argument (_Studies in Horace_, pp. 25 _sqq._) that _Od._ i.-iii. were published B.C. 19 is not convincing. [57] Ed. by Mommsen in _Ephemeris Epigraphica_, 1892, p. 225. [58] For Horace's eclectic position in philosophy, cf. _Ep._ i. 1, 14-15, 'Nullius addictus iurare in verba magistri, quo me cumque rapit tempestas, deferor hospes.' [59] As suggested to us by Prof. W. M. Ramsay. For Horace's opinion of Catullus cf. _Sat._ i. 10, 18-9, 'Simius iste, nil praeter Calvum et doctus cantare Catullum.' [60] See Th. Mommsen, _Sitzungsberichte der königl. preuss. Akad. der Wissenschaften zu Berlin_. 24 Jan. 1889. [61] A Peripatetic of the third century B.C., who wrote a popular account of the literary and philosophical views of his school. [62] E. Voss, _Die Natur in der Dichtung des Horaz_ (Düsseldorf, 1889). [63] As pointed out by A. W. Verrall, _Studies in Horace_, p. 134 _sqq._ [64] This poem is probably referred to by Hor. _Od._ iv. 4, 19-22. [65] M. Valerius Messalla Corvinus, author of memoirs of the Civil War (Tac. _Ann._ iv. 34), love poems (Pliny, _Ep._ v. 3, 5), and works on grammar (Quint. i. 7, 35). [66] Dessau, _Inscr. Lat. Sel._ 2925. _Serg._ stands for _Serg[ia tribu]_, and is not a cognomen _Sergio_. [67] See Pliny, _Ep._ v. 9, 2.