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'Cum sciam nil esse in vita proprium mortali datum

Jam qua tempestate vivo chresin ad me recipio.'

Cf. 'Vitaque mancipio nulli datur, omnibus usu.']

'Peccare impune rati sunt

Posse et nobilitate procul propellere iniquos.'

'Hostiliu' contra

Pestem permitiemque catax quam et Maniu' nobis.'

eam causam minus quam volebat familiaris, sed tamen et doctus et

perurbanus.'

'Aut laeso doluere Metello

Famosisque Lupo cooperto versibus?'

'Secuit Lucilius urbem

'Sardines and fish-sauce are your death, O Lupus.'

'Long live, ye gluttons, gourmands, belly-gods.'

'Then he wiped the ample table with a purple cloth.'

The two last passages are reproduced by Horace in the lines:--

'Unde datum sentis, lupus hic Tiberinus, an alto

Captus hiet, pontesne inter iactatus, an amnis

'Gausape purpureo mensam pertersit.'--Ib. ii. 8. 11.

Cf. 'Crescit indulgens sibi dirus hydrops,' etc.

'Furei cui neque servus est neque arca,' etc.

Somnia, terrores magicos, miracula, sagas,

Nocturnos lemures portentaque Thessala rides?'

Accordingly, I, as praetor of Athens, when you approach me, greet

'Ego enim contemnificus fieri et fastidire Agamemnona.--

Di monerint meliora, amentiam averruncassint tuam.--

Hic cruciatur fame,

Frigore, inluvie, inperfundie, inbalnite, incuria.--

Nunc ignobilitas his mirum, taetrum, ac monstrificabile--

Dividant, differant, dissipent, distrahant.'

'Verum tristis contorto aliquo ex Pacuviano exordio.'

And this from another book of Satires:--

'Ransuro tragicus qui carmina perdit Oreste.'

'Hastis longis campus splendet et horret,'--

'Tum late ferreus hastis

Horret ager.'

(1) 'Quantum haurire animus Musarum ec fontibu' gestit.'

(2) 'Cum sciam nil esse in vita proprium mortali datum

Jam quae tempestate vivo, chresin ad me recipio.'

(3) 'Ut pueri infantes credunt signa omnia ahena

Vivere et esse homines, sic istic omnia ficta

Vera putant.'

'Detrahere et pellem nitidus qua quisque per ora

Cederet, introrsum turpis.'

habitually within the city. The taste for country life prevailing

But perhaps the most important condition determining the original

In this era, more than in any later age, the poetry of Rome, like

law-courts.

the settlers in a new country, who are spared the pains of exact

Arido modo pumice expolitum.

The style of the early poets was marked by haste, harshness, and

redundance, occasionally by verbal conceits and similar errors of

Historical composition also took its rise at Rome at this period.

This era also saw the beginning of the critical and grammatical

language into a more certain and uniform vehicle, and, comment on

The existing works of the two great writers of Roman comedy have

The accomplished art of the last age of the Republic and of the

'Quom illis placet,

Qui vobis univorsis et populo placent,

Quorum opera in bello, in otio, in negotio

Suo quisque tempore usust sine superbia.'

'Ut pueris placeas et declamatio fias.'

An interval of nearly half a century elapsed between the death of

But Cicero is not to be ranked among the poets of Rome. He merely

facility by translating passages from the Greek tragedians in his

sacrifice of individual conviction or public sentiment to satisfy

the immediate predecessors and contemporaries of Cicero. It was

Perfection of style attained in one of the two great branches of

a national literature cannot fail to react on the other. It was

the peculiarity of Latin literature that this perfection or high

accomplishment was reached in prose sooner than in poetry. The

revived. Learned Greeks continued to flock to Rome and to attach

Carmina, picturas, et daedala signa;

Musaea mele per chordas organici quae

Mobilibus digitis expergefacta figurant.

The delicate appreciation of the paintings, statues, gems, vases,

As the bent given to philosophical and literary studies developed

Saecli incommoda, pessimi poetae,--

a countryman of his own, Tanusius Geminus, the author of a long

While so much of the literature of that age has perished, we are

Et cycnea mele Phoebeaque daedala chordis

Carmina consimili ratione oppressa silerent.

These lines point to the union of music and lyrical poetry.]

It is in keeping with the isolated and independent position which

prevented his speaking of himself and telling his own history as

The well-known statement of Jerome is to this effect,--'The poet

Lucretius was born in the year 94 B.C. He became mad from the

some tragic circumstances in the poet's history, than as the idle

it would have been quite in accordance with the principles of his

Sed tua me virtus tamen et sperata voluptas

Suavis amicitiae--.

While Lucretius pays the tribute of admiration to the literary

Nec Memmi clara propago

Talibus in rebus communi deesse saluti--

This relation to Memmius is the only additional fact which an

Quae belle tangere possunt

Auris et lepido quae sunt fucata sonore.

Sanguine civili rem conflant, etc.--

recall the thought and spectacle of crime and bloodshed vividly

presented to him in the impressible years of his youth. Other