2. _De Viris Illustribus_, including poets, orators (beginning with Cicero), historians (from Sallust onwards), philosophers, grammarians, and rhetoricians. The greater part of the section _De grammaticis et rhetoribus_ is extant, as well as lives of Terence, Horace, and Lucan from the section _de poetis_, and of Pliny the elder from the section _de historicis_. Extracts from the rest of the work are preserved by Jerome. In each section there was (1) a list of the authors discussed, (2) a general survey of their branch of literature, (3) brief notices of the authors in chronological order. The publication took place, according to Roth, 106-113 A.D. 3. Minor works, now lost (mentioned by Suidas), on Greek games, Roman games, the Roman year, on critical marks, on Cicero's _Republic_, on dress, on imprecations (περὶ δυσφήμων λέξεων ἤτοι βλασφημιῶν καὶ πόθεν ἑκάστη), on Roman laws and customs. Some of these were probably only sections of the _Prata_, a miscellany in ten Books, which also treated of natural science and philology. The books on Greek games and on imprecations were almost certainly composed in Greek. Footnotes to Chapter IV [72] The praenomen 'Gaius' is rendered highly probable by the reading of the _editio princeps_ and by an inscription found in Africa (_C.I.L._ viii. 10311). [73] _Les Poètes Latins de la Décadence_, vol. i., p. 8. [74] Antwerp edition, p. 89. [75] Tacitus does not say openly that Seneca was privy to the murder. On the whole he is favourable to Seneca, either because he followed the authority of Fabius Rusticus, a friend of Seneca, or because Seneca perished afterwards through Nero's agency, or because he thought Seneca deserved his consideration. [76] Seneca's influence on the Imperial policy, especially in the liberal view it took regarding religion, is well brought out by Prof. W. M. Ramsay, in his book, _St. Paul the Traveller and the Roman Citizen_, pp. 354 _sqq._ [77] See the very large list of parallels collected by Heitland, _Introduction_ to Haskins' _Lucan_, § 51. [78] See under Varro, p. 96. [79] Ed. of _Cena Trimalchionis_, p. 7. [80] See O. Hirschfeld's note on this passage in _Römische Verwaltungsgeschichte_, p. 261. [81] Messalla was a favourite of Gaius, Narcissus of Claudius. [82] Pomponius was the author of _Aeneas_ and other tragedies. Pliny calls him 'consularis poeta,' 'vates civisque clarissimus' (_N.H._ vii. 80, xiii. 83). Cf. Tac. _Ann._ xii. 28. [83] Given with other examples by W. C. Summers, _Study of the Argonautica_ (Camb. 1894), p. 27. [84] Summers, _ibid._ p. 56. [85] Cf. Tac. _Hist._ iii. 65. [86] Mart. vii. 63. [87] Mart. xi. 48; 49. [88] Mart. viii. 66. [89] Mart. ix. 68. [90] The references are to L. Friedländer's edition (Leipzig, 1886). [91] Ed. of Book x., Introd. p. 9 (Oxford, 1891). [92] A passage probably inserted by the pseudo-Frontinus from memoirs of the genuine Frontinus to give an air of authenticity to his work.