Laudibus arguitur vini vinosus Homerus ; 10 15 20 25 8. Puteal. See Sat. II. vi. 35. | some of the bursting of a blood(Cp. Ars P. 471., 'bidental.") It was the resort of money changers : Qui Puteal, Janumque timet, celeresque Calendas. Ov. R. Am. 561. (See Map of Rome, p. 41.) 10. edixi. Cp. vv. 18, 19. 'edixit,' sc. Ennius. Al. vessel, followed by death. It may be more naturally taken in the same sense as rumperis, Sat. 1. iii. 136., and Cicero's dirupi me pæne,' Ad Fam. vii. 1. (quoted by Orelli), or of bursting with jealousy,' as in Virgil's line. (Cp. Cic. ad F. xii. 2., plausu dirumpitur.') 11. certare mero. Carm. IV. i. 31. Timagenis. The gen. case is go15. Iarbitam. A name (or nick-verned by æmula, i. e. 'his rivalry name) denoting one of Moorish de- of Timagenes.' scent; as if from the Iarbas of Virg. En. iv. 196. The Scholiast gives Cordus as the real name of the person intended; and this is conjecturally identified with the Codrus of Virgil: 'invidiâ rumpantur ut ilia Codro.'-Ecl. vii. 26. Rupit. This is understood by 18. exsangue, making bloodless,' i. e. pale. (For instances of this transitive usage in adjectives, see note on Carm. 11. ix. 3.) Cp. 'pallentis grana cumini,' Pers. S. v. 55. 21. princeps. Carm. 111. xxx. 13.; IV. ix. 3. 25. Lycamben. Epod. vi. 13. Quod timui mutare modos et carminis artem : Nec socerum quærit, quem versibus oblinat atris, Laudet ametque domi, premat extra limen iniquus? Te solum, tibi pulcher. Ad hæc ego naribus uti 30 35 40 45 Semper ego auditor tantum ? num 28. i. e. the later poets, Sappho | pune, Ep. 11. ii. 105., and Juv. i. 1.: and Alcæus, retained the metre of Archilochus, though applying it to other subjects, and with a different order or form of verse. 34. Ingenuis. Cp. Sat. I. x. 76., and the enumeration there, vv. 8187. Compare Milton's "fit audience find though few." P. L. vii. 31. 37. non ego. i. e. 'I flatter neither plebs nor nobiles.' ventosæ. Cp. Cic. ad Fam. ii. 6.: 'ventorum (i. e. the fickle elements) quos proposui moderator suffragia. Ep. II. ii. 103. 38. Impensis. Ars P. 420, sqq. Cp. Pers. i. 53. 39. ultor. i. e. 'revenging myself by reciting in my turn. Cp. im quamne reponam ? Orell. cp. Cic. pro Cluent. 51. (141.) bullatis ut mihi nugis Pagina turgescat dare pondus idonea fumo. 43. Jovis. i. e. Augusti. (Sat. IL vi. 52.) 44. manare, cum acc. case, as in Ov. Met. vi. 312. mella. Apis Matinæ more,' Carm. IV. ii. 27. Cp. Lucret. i. 947.:'quasi musæo... melle.' 45. naribus. Sat. 1. vi. 5. Displicet iste locus, clamo, et diludia posco. EPISTOLA XX. AD LIBRUM SUUM. VERTUMNUM Janumque, liber, spectare videris, Non ita nutritus. Fuge, quo descendere gestis. Qui male parentem in rupes protrusit asellum 5 10 15 Hoc quoque te manet, ut pueros elementa docentem Cum tibi sol tepidus plures admoverit aures, EP. XX. 1. Cp. Ov. Trist. 1. 1. sqq.: Vertumnum Janumque. i. e. one of the bookselling vicinities. 2. ut prostes, that you may be exposed for sale.' Sosiorum. The booksellers. Ars 4. Paucis ostendi. See above, on Ep. xix. 34. 7. quis. Al. quid. me peritus discet Iber. 19. i. e. When the evening sun has collected an audience for you.' It is implied that evening was the time for poetic readings. Orelli com 168 Q. HORATII FLACCI EPISTOLARUM LIB. I. 20. Me libertino natum patre et in tenui re 20. Sat. 1. vi. 6. 45, 46. 23. Sat. II. i. 76.; Ep. 1. xvii. 35. 24. exigui. Sat. II. iii. 309. 25 Q. HORATII FLACCI EPISTOLARUM LIBER SECUNDUS. THE opening address is to Augustus, who is said by Suetonius to have complained that he was not mentioned in the Satires. He is classed with heroes, benefactors of antiquity, and contrasted with them in having his merits rightly judged. and in receiving homage due, even in his lifetime. This introduces the proper subject of the epistle, in which complaint is made of the unreasoning eulogies passed on ancient poets, and of the neglect of cotemporary and modern authors (v. 21. sqq.) These old favourites are enumerated, and the fashionable opinion of them severally is cited (vv. 50-62.); the depreciation of the new generation is reasoned on and traced to jealousy (vv. 63—89.). The love of novelty is then examined as a principle (vv. 90-113.); the turn it has taken at Rome in favour of literary habits is described; its harmlessness (v. 119. sqq.), and its services to education (vv. 126-130.), and to religion (vv. 132-138.), are set forth, and then an outline of the rise of satiric and scenic composition (v. 139. sqq.). Next in scanning the defects of Roman authorship, these are traced not to a want of spirit or invention, but |