Pliny, _N.H._ xxxv. 199, 'Est et vilissima [creta] qua circum praeducere ad victoriae notam pedesque venalium trans maria advectorum denotare instituerunt maiores talemque Publilium Antiochium (MSS. lochium) mimicae scaenae conditorem et astrologiae consobrinum eius Manilium Antiochum, item grammaticae Staberium Erotem eadem nave advectos videre proavi.' An account of Publilius' manumission, and his contest with Laberius in B.C. 45, is given by Macrob. _Saturn._ ii. 7, 4-8, and is quoted under 'Laberius,' p. 97. Publilius' works were: 1. _Mimi._--Two titles are quoted. 2. _Sententiae._--Six hundred and ninety-seven lines from his mimes (unconnected and alphabetically arranged) are preserved from different sources. Most are iambic senarii, some trochaic septenarii. Macrob. _Saturn._ ii. 7, 10, 'Publili sententiae feruntur lepidae et ad communem usum adcommodatissimae.' Cicero heard his and Laberius' plays in B.C. 46. See _ad Fam._ xii. 18, 2, quoted under 'Laberius,' p. 99. Sen. _de tranquill._ 11, 8, 'Publilius, tragicis comicisque vehementior ingeniis, quotiens mimicas ineptias et verba ad summam caveam spectantia reliquit, inter multa alia cothurno, non tantum sipario fortiora, et hoc ait, "Cuivis potest accidere quod cuiquam potest."' The lines are, like the above, proverbs of worldly wisdom, and seem to have been used in schools. Jerome _Ep. ad Laetam_, 107, 'Legi quondam in scholis puer, "Aegre reprendas quod sinas consuescere."' Footnotes to Chapter II [25] Q. Hortensius Hortalus (B.C. 114-50), Cicero's rival as an orator, and author of _Annales_ (Vell. ii. 16, 3), a _Rhetoric_ (Quint. ii. 1, 11), and love poems (Ovid _Tr._ ii. 441). [26] According to _ad Att._ ii. 1, 3 (if genuine), Cicero intended to publish speeches 9-11 in a collection of 'orationes consulares' ('Hoc totum σῶμα curabo ut habeas'). [27] _R.H._ iv. 311 (note). [28] Q. Asconius Pedianus (A.D. 3-88), probably a native of Padua, author of a commentary on Cicero's speeches. The extant part is on _Pro Cornelio de maiestate_, _In toga candida_, _In Pisonem_, _Pro Scauro_, and _Pro Milone_. The commentary on the Verrines and Divinatio, which deals almost exclusively with the language, is spurious: the true Asconius confines himself to the subject-matter. [29] The Epicurean philosophy was expounded in the writings of C. Amafinius, Rabirius, and T. Catius, whose opinions and literary style were alike distasteful to Cicero (_Ac._ i. 5; _ad. Fam._ xv. 19, 2). [30] F. Ritschl, _Opuscula_, iii., p. 525. [31] L. Schwabe, _Quaest. Catull._, p. 296. B. Schmidt, however (ed. of Catullus, p. 57), thinks that the _Chronica_ are not referred to here.