Inque vicem illorum patiar delicta libenter, SATIRA IV. EUPOLIS atque Cratinus Aristophanesque poëtæ comœdia prisca. Cp. Ars Poet. 281. The rise of Comedy was later by a generation than that of Tragedy. There were three divisions of it, marked by the refinements successively introduced by taste or by public opinion: the Old Comedy, which, in its unrestricted license, dealt with real persons and facts; the Middle Comedy, in which the facts were real but the names fictitious; the New Comedy, in which both facts and names were fictitious. The distinction of Old and New is marked by Aristotle, Eth. N. iv. 5 Magnus Auruncæ alumnus." Juv. i. 20. For the severity of his satire, cp. Ibid., v. 165., and Pers. i. 114. "C. Lucilius.. et doctus et perurbanus."-Cic. De Or. i. 16. (72.). Quintilian (x. i. 94.) objects to Horace's epithet for him, lutulentus. 6 8. emunctæ naris, of nice (i. e. keen) judgment.' Comp. Sat. 1. iii. 30, where acutis naribus' implies a quick sense of the ridiculous.' It may mean the same here, or, more generally, a ready perception of character.' Ut magnum, versus dictabat stans pede in uno. Aut ob avaritiam aut misera ambitione laborat. 10 15 20 25 10. Ut magnum. i. e. 'pluming | Tu neque anhelanti, coquitur dum himself upon his facility." 11. Cum, since.' lutulentus. So Call. H. Apoll. 108., comparing a poem to a river: τὰ πολλὰ massa camino, Folle premis ventos; i. e. you are no spouter; and in Juv. vii. 111. (of a vehement advocate). 21. Fannius, like Crispinus, one of Horace's "Dunciad." ultro Delatis, happy in the desks and bust presented to him by his admirers; or, 'happy in his vanity, delighted at having sent his works, with his bust, to the public library (of which see Ep. 11. i. 216., 11. ii. 94.). Orelli adopts (from Franke) the former interpretation. mea timentis. So, "nostros filentis ocellos."-Ov. Her. v. 45. 24. i. e. 'Men are sensitive because they are in the wrong.' 26. ob avaritiam... ambitione. Mentioned again together, Sat. 11. iii. 78. The change of construction is worth noting as an elegance. (Two Hic nuptarum insanit amoribus, hic puerorum ; Fonum habet in cornu, longe fuge: dummodo risum Et pueros et anus. Agedum, pauca accipe contra. 2. 28. argenti. sc. 'plate." At pater ardens in ædilitate suâ (B.C. 33). 30 35 40 45 lacus ære, bronzes,' as in Car. IV. viii. septingentos fecit."-Plin. N. H. 29. Cp. Pers. v. 54. 32. ut as well as ne is to be taken as dep. on metuens. metuens ne = fearing he may; metuens ut fearing he may not. 34. Fænum habet. He is dangerous,' (they cry.) (The horns of vicious cattle were bound with hay.) See the anecdote in Plutarch's Life of M. Crassus, ch. vii. 36. illeverit, a term for hasty scribbling.' the and the 37. a furno lacuque. i. e. lowest;' pueros et anus, silliest people.' lacus, the reservoirs." xxxvi. 15. (24.) 40. concludere. i. q. "pedibus claudere."-Sat. I. x. 59., II. i. 28. Cp. below, v. 54.: "versum perscribere" 43. mens divinior. Gesn. compares "afflatu divino," from Cic. N. D. ii. 66. os magna sonaturum. i. e. a lofty style.' Cp. ore rotundo, Ars Poet. 323.; magno nunc ore sonandum, Virg. Geor. iii. 294. 45. necne poema, etc. Cp. Cic. Orat. 20. (67.) 48. At. But (you will say), etc. pater. scil. in the play' (perso "Agrippa natus, v. 56.). Sævit, quod meretrice nepos insanus amica Non satis est puris versum perscribere verbis, Tempora certa modosque et quod prius ordine verbum est Posterius facias præponens ultima primis, Non, ut si solvas "Postquam Discordia tetra 52. cum facibus. Cp. Carm. III. xxvi. 7. 60 65 70 75 65. Sulcius, Caprius, 'delatores et causidici;' v. Schol. libellis, 'writs of indictment.' See art. LIBELLUS, in the Dict. of Antiqq. 71. habeat, used in an optative 60. Non. Connect with invenias sense. (v. 62.). 60, 61, Verses taken from Ennius; imitated, Virg. Æn. vii. 622. 77. sine sensu. Cp. Sat. 1. iii. 66. i.e.without observing whether the audience like or listen to them.' Tempore num faciant alieno. Lædere gaudes, Inquit, et hoc studio pravus facis. Unde petitum Qui captat risus hominum famamque dicacis, 80 Qui nequit ; hic niger est, hunc tu, Romane, caveto. 85 Sæpe tribus lectis videas cœnare quaternos, E quibus unus amet quavis adspergere cunctos 90 Præter eum qui præbet aquam; post hunc quoque potus, Te coram fuerit, defendas, ut tuus est mos : 95 78. Tempore alieno. Martial, dus, etc. Now I will give you an iii. 44. 6 79. Lædere gaudes, inquit. You are malicious,' says one, and do this (i.e. affect this concealment) with an evil purpose;' sc. ut absentes rodas. 81-83. Cp. Eurip. Hippol. 1000.: οὐκ ἐγγελάστης τῶν ὁμιλούντων, πάτερ, ἀλλ ̓ αὑτὸς οὐ παροῦσι κἀγγὺς ὢν φίλοις. and Cicero, Epist. Fam. iii. 8.: Si ista quæ alios loqui dicis ipse sentis tua summa culpa est; sin autem alii tecum hæc loquuntur tua tamen, quod audis, culpa nonnulla est. instance which really deserves those epithets'.. .... 87. amet soleat, as Sat. 1. x. 60., II. iii. 214. avet is a common reading here, but less suitably as to sense and mood. (See Bentley's note, quoted by Orelli.) aspergere cunctos. Cp. dicteria dicis in omnes.-Mart. vi. 44. 88. qui præbet aquam. i. e. 'the entertainer.' Cp. Sat. II. ii. 69.; also Carm. III. xix. 6. 92. A quotation from Sat. 1. ii. 27. 94. Petillî. Cp. Sat. 1. x. 26. He was said to have stolen the crown 86-100. The sense is: You from the statue of Jupiter in the often see at a party one invited Capitol, and to have been acquitted whose whole occupation (or profes- only through the influence of Ausion) is to banter the rest. You gustus. Hence the name Capitolicall him a free-spoken agreeable nus. This was, however, a regular Yet you call me niger, livi- surname of the gens Petillia. man. |