Unus vivorum, Fundani; Pollio regum Facta canit pede ter percusso; forte epos acer Atque quibusdam aliis, melius quod scribere possem, 45 50 55 conscribendis fabulis."-Orell. The suited to me, though I confess my general sense is, you are the most inferiority to Lucilius (inventore pleasing writer of witty dialogue.' minor), esp. as the inventor of the Dillenburger points out the choice of style.' verbs here, garrire comoediam, canere tragoediam, ducere epica carmina,' expressing respectively the light and lively dialogue; the dignified or solemn tone of tragedy; the historical and sustained character of epic composition. 42. Fundanî. Caius Fundanius, the popular comic poet of the day. Pollio. Carm. 11. i. 1. 43. pede ter percusso-trimetris, Ars P. 252. Varrone. Publ. Terentius Varro Atacinus (from Atax, a river in Gallia Narbonensis, his native country) composed in several styles of poetry. His satires may be inferred from this passage to have been failures. He must not be confounded with the learned Varro Reatinus. He was born B. c. 82. 53. i. e. Does your favourite Lucilius find nothing to alter in Accius ?' comis was evidently (see v. 65.) the popular epithet in the mouth of the admirers of Lucilius. forte epos, Epic poetry.' 44. molle, facetum, epithets descriptive of the Eclogues and Georgics, the Eneid being yet unpublished. Quintilian, referring to this passage, explains facetum as a term (appellationem) "decoris et ex-fied.' cultæ cujusdam elegantiæ."- Or. Inst. vI. iii. 19. Accî. Epist. II. i. 56.; Ars P. 258. 54. Ennî. Epist. II. i. 50. gravitate minores. i. e. 'undigni 55. non ut majore, 'not as if he were superior to those whom he blames' (though he can see their defects). Versiculos natura magis factos et euntes Mollius ac si quis pedibus quid claudere senis, Quam rudis et Græcis intacti carminis auctor, 60 65 70 58. magis factos. i. e. more | 20. ; cp. Ars P. 291. So kaтeppinfinished.' Cp. facta quodammodo uévos, Arist. Ran. 902. oratio, Cic. Ad Brut. viii. 30.; De 66. Quam... auctor. i. e 'grant Orat. iii. 48. (184.) 59. pedibus quid claudere. i. e. 'to make verses that would scan.' Sat. II. i. 28., 1. iv. 40. 61. Etrusci Cassî, a bad poet, not to be confounded with the Cassius of Epist. I. iv. 3. 62. ferventius amni. So Carm. Iv. ii. 5.: velut amnis . . . fervet,-of the impetuosity of genius. Luci that he has elegance and ease, and even more smoothness than you could expect from the author of a new and untried style of poetry.' lius is termed auctor, as in v. 48. inventor (cp. below, Sat. II. i. 63.); and such he was, both as to the form and the subject matter of his Satires. Those of Ennius had been composed in every kind of metre, and were 63. i. e. he wrote books enough, wholly irregular; and in their subwith their cases, to serve for his ject they were principally a delineafuneral pile.' tion of daily life. But Lucilius ambustum, prop. 'burnt round,' wrote only in hexameter verse, and i. e. 'set on fire, scorched." "Ridicule apparently (like Horace and Juvenal) pro combustum."-Baxt. "Consulto dealt with peculiarities of character, mitius verbum elegit ne nimis rem ex- with vices, and with persons. (Some aggeraret, non combustum."-Orell. editors have interpreted auctor of (Can the story be a jest developed Ennius; but there are great objecout of the double sense of the adj. tions to this. ferventius ?) 71. vivos ungues, 'to the quick.' Cp. Pers. i. 106. 65. limatior. The metaphor of "a fayre filed tongue" is in Spenser, F. 72. stilum vertas, you must 11. i. 3. Cp. Ov. Ex Pont. I. v. 16-alter,' &c. The stilus was blunted 52 Q. HORATII FLACCI SATIRARUM LIB. I. 10. Scripturus, neque te ut miretur turba labores, 75 Non ego nam satis est equitem mihi plaudere, ut audax Men' moveat cimex Pantilius, aut cruciet quod Vos, Bibule et Servi, simul his te, candide Furni, at the one end so as to obliterate the writing on the waxen tablet when needed. 75. This would be the fate. of a popular poet. Cp. Epist. I. xx. 17., and Pers. i. 29. 77. Arbuscula, a female mime or reciter (see on v. 18.), extolled by Cic. Ad Att. IV. xv. 6. 78. Pantilius, one of Horace's Dunciad. So Fannius, Sat. I. iv. 21. cimex, 'a bug.' 81. Plotius. Sat. I. v. 40. · 82. Valgius. Carm. II. ix. 80 85 90 Octavius, historian and poet. 84. Ambitione relegatâ. i. e. 91. jubeo plorare. Gr. oiμúsei KEλEUW, equivalent to abite in malam rem.' Q. HORATII FLACCI SATIRARUM LIBER SECUNDUS. SATIRA I. SUNT quibus in satira videor nimis acer et ultra Quid faciam præscribe. Quiescas. Ne faciam, inquis, 6 scriptionum for the common persecutionum). Gr. 7. Optimum erat, 'it were best ;' 'it would be the best way : KрEITTOV V (as in Arist. Nub. 1215.). Cp. Livy, xxx. 29.: optimum quidem fuerat, etc. 8. Ter transnanto... habento. These terminations are proper to a formal legal style of injunction; and in the rule itself is a sly allusion to the old lawyer's love of the water, and of good living:. for which traits see Cic. Ad Fam. VII. X. 2., studiosissimus homo natandi ; and VII. xxii., inter scyphos, etc. Aut, si tantus amor scribendi te rapit, aude Præmia laturus. Cupidum, pater optime, vires 13. Deficiunt. Cp. Ov. Fast. i. 123.: "Deficit ingenium, majoraque viribus urgent. 14. fractâ cuspide. This is said by the Schol. to be an allusion to the device adopted by Marius against the Cimbri. See Plutarch's Life of C. Marius, 25. 16. poteras scribere. Lit., 'you were able to describe, you might have described.' But, as expressing a suggestion or supposition, cp. Ars P. 328. poteras dixisse, 'supposе you say, or have said.' justum, fortem. i. e. in his civil capacity as a just and vigorous ruler. 18. dextro tempore. Cp. the opposite phrase in Sat. II. iv. 4. 22. A verse quoted from Sat. 1. viii. 11. 10 15 20 25 |