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[13] Ib. II. ii. 6.
[14] Ib. III. v. 52.
[15] Ib. III. v. 28; cf. IV. ii 65.
[16] Quint. III. vii. 4.
[17] Ib. III. v. 31.
[18] Silv. IV. ii. 65.
[19] For a brilliant and interesting essay on the two Statii, the reader is referred to Nisard, _Poetes de la Decadence_, vol. I. p. 303.
[20] The fifth book is unfinished. Probably he did not care to recur to it after leaving Rome.
[21] Silv. I. ii. 95.
[22] Book II. part II. ch. i.
[23] Sat. I. iv. 73.
[24] Pont. IV. ii. 34; Trist. III. xiv. 39.
[25] Laetam fecit c.u.m Statius Urbem Promisitque diem, Juv. vii. 86.
[26] Esurit intactam Paridi nisi vendit Agaven, Juv. ib.
[27] _Bis senos vigilata per annos_, Theb. xii. 811.
[28] Theb. vii. 435, quoted by Nisard.
[29] "The land on the other side."
[30] The reader is referred to an article on the later Roman epos by Conington, _Posthumous Works_, vol. i. p. 348.
[31] Aen. vi. 413.
[32] Phars. i. 56.
[33] Theb. i. 17; Ach. i. 19.
[34] Theb. xii. 815.
[35] As i. 49, 3; iv. 55, 11, &c.
[36] In x. 24, 4, he tells us he is fifty-six; in x. 104, 9, written at Rome, he says he has been away from Bilbilis 34 years. In xii. 31. 7, he says his entire absence lasted 35 years. Now this was written in 100 A.D.
[37] iii. 94.
[38] v. 13.
[39] Nisard, p. 337.
[40] vii. 36.
[41] i. 77, &c.
[42] vii. 34.
[43] vii. 21.
[44] iv. 22.
[45] xi. 104.
[46] ii. 92, 3.
[47] So it is inferred from xii. 31.
[48] xii. 21.
[49] iii. 21.
[50] They will be found in Epig. x. 19.
[51] v. 37.
[52] See esp. ix. 48, as compared with Juv. ii. 1-30.
[53] x. 2.
[54] Mart. xi. 10.
[55] Mart. ix. 9.
[56] Ep. ix. 19, 1.
[57] Ep. iii. 1.
[58] x. 35, 1.
[59] _E.g._ The description of Domitian: qui res Romanas imperat inter, _Non trabe sed tergo prolapsus_ et ingluvie albus. The underlined expression is an imitation of Aristophanes' Nub. 1275, _ouk apo dokou all'
ap' onou_, _i.e. apo nou_, "He fell not from a beam, but from a donkey."
[60] Juv. i. 2.
[61] Ib. 3, _recitaverit_ ille togatas, &c.
