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--_Prol_. 2, 14.
[23] 2 Hor. Ep, li. 1, 59. _Vincere Caecilius gravitate_.
[24] Adelph. prol.:
"Nam quod isti dic.u.n.t malevoli, homines n.o.biles Hunc adiutare, a.s.sidueque una scribere; Quod illi maledictmn vehemens existimant, Eam laudem hic ducit maximam: c.u.m illis placet, Qui vobis universis et populo placent: Quorum opera in bello, in otio, in negotio Suo quisque tempore usus est sine superbia."
[25] See prol. to Andria.
[26] Suet. Vit. Ter.
[27] Tu quoque tu in summis, o dimidiate Menander, poneris, &c.--_Ib._
[28] Possibly the following may be exceptions:--Andr. 218; Haut. 218, 356; Hec. 543. See Teuffel.
[29] See the first scene of the _Adelphoe_.
[30] _Metriotaes_, the quality so much admired by the Greek critics, in which Horace may be compared with Terence. Cf. _Aul. Gell._ vi. (or vii.) 14, 6.
[31] 1. 37, _sqq._
[32] Suet. Vit. Ter.
[33] Sat. 1, 4, 53, referring to the scene in the _Adelphoe_.
[34] Except in the prologues to the _Eun._ and _Hecyra_.
[35] 805, "_ut quimus_" _aiunt_, "_quando ut volumus non licet_." The line of Caecilius is "_Vivas ut possis quando non quis ut velis._"
[36] Georg. iii. 9.
"Tentanda via est qua me quoque possim Toll ere humo _victorque virum volitare per ora_."
He expresses his aspiration after immortality in the same terms that Ennius had employed.
[37] Eun. v. iv.
[38] Or "Lanuvinus." Those who wish to know the inartistic expedients to which he resorted to gain applause should read the prologues of Terence, which are most valuable materials for literary criticism.
[39] Att. xiv. 20, 3.
[40] Teuffel 103.
[41] Sometimes called _Tabernaria_, Diomed iii. p. 488, though, strictly speaking, this denoted a lower and more provincial type.
[42] x. 1, 100.
CHAPTER V.
[1] _Quadrati versus._ Gell. ii. 29.
[2] Cic. de Sen. 5, 14.
[3] Ep. I. xix. 7.
[4] Nunquam poetor nisi podager.
[5] _Quintus Maeonides pavone ex Pythagoreo_ (Persius).
[6] Greek, Oscan, and Latin.
[7] Ep. II. i. 52.
[8] Fragment of the _Telamo_.
[9] _Aufert Pacuvius docti famam senis_.--_Hor. Ep._ ii. 1, 56.
[10] We learn from Pliny that he decorated his own scenes.
[11] We infer that he came to Rome not later than 169, as in that year he buried Ennius; but it is likely that he arrived much earlier.
[12] De Am. vii.
[13] 1, 77. "Antiopa aerumnis cor luctificabile fulta."
[14] Tusc. II. x. 48.
[15] The Antiopa and Dulorestes.
[16] Quint. I. V. 67-70.
[17] We give the reader an example of this feature of Pacuvius's style. In the _Antiopa_, Amphion gives a description of the tortoise: "_Quadrupes tardigrada agrestis humilis aspera Capite brevi cervice anguina aspectu truci Eviscerata inanima, c.u.m artimali sono._" To which his hearers reply --"_Ita saeptuosa dictione abs te datur, Quod coniectura sapiens aegre contulit. Non intelligimus nisi si aperte dixeris._"
[18] Prob. 94 B.C. when Cic. was twelve years old. In Planc. 24, 59, he calls him "gravis et ingeniosus poeta."
[19] Cf. Hor. Ep. ii. 1, 56; Cv. Am. i. 15, 19. On the other hand, Hor. S.
I. x. 53.
[20] Loco = decori, Non. 338, 22.
[21] Compare a similar subtle distinction in the Dulorestes, "_Piget_ paternum nomen, maternum _pudet_ profari."
[22] Propria = perpetua, Non. 362, 2.
CHAPTER VI.
[1] Vahlen, quoted by Teuffel, -- 90, 3; see Gell. xvii. 21, 43.
