forsooth desired - according to the talk of the time - to introduce polygamy in Rome (Suetonius, Caes. 82) and he nominated in reality six aediles instead of four. One sees from this that aberius understood how to exercise the fool's privilege and Caesar how to permit the fool's freedom.
12. V. VIII. Attempts of the Regents to Check It.
13. V. XI. The Poor.
14. IV. XIII. Dramatic Arrangements.
15. He obtained from the state for every day on which he acted 1000
16. Such an individual apparent exception as Panchaea the land of incense (ii. 417) is to be explained from the circumstance that this had passed from the romance of the Travels of Euhemerus already perhaps into the poetry of Ennius, at any rate into the poems of Lucius Manlius (iv. 242; Plin. H. N. x. a, 4) and thence was well known to the public for which Lucretius wrote.
17. III. XIV. Moral Effect of Tragedy.
18. This naively appears in the descriptions of war, in which the seastorms that destroy armies, and the hosts of elephants that trample down those who are on their own side - pictures, that is, from the Punic wars - appear as if they belong to the immediate present. Comp. ii. 41; v. 1226, 1303, 1339.
19. 'No doubt', says Cicero (Tusc. iii. 19, 45) in reference to Ennius, 'the glorious poet is despised by our reciters of Euphorion'. 'I have safely arrived', he writes to Atticus (vii. 2 init.), 'as a most favourable north wind blew for us across from Epirus. This spondaic line you may, if you choose, sell to one of the new-fashioned poets as your ow', (
20. V. VIII. Literature of the Opposition.
21. 'For me when a boy', he somewhere says, 'there sufficed a single rough coat and a single under-garment, shoes without stockings, a horse without a saddle; I had no daily warm bath, and but seldom a river-bath'. On account of his personal valour he obtained in the Piratic war, where he commanded a division of the fleet, the naval crown.
22. V. X. The Pompeians in Spain.
23. There is hardly anything more childish than Varro's scheme of all the philosophies, which in the first place summarily declares all systems that do not propose the happiness of man as their ultimate aim to be nonexistent, and then reckons the number of philosophies conceivable under this supposition as two hundred and eighty-eight. The vigorous man was unfortunately too much a scholar to confess that he neither could nor would be a philosopher, and accordingly as such throughout life he performed a blind dance-not altogether becoming - between the Stoa, Pythagoreanism, and Diogenism.
24. On one occasion he writes, '
The following description of himself by a poet in Varro's
might aptly parody the introduction of Lucretius (p. 474), to whom Varro as a declared enemy of the Epicurean system cannot have been well disposed, and whom he never quotes.
25. He himself once aptly says, that he had no special fondness for antiquated words, but frequently used them, and that he was very fond of poetical words, but did not use them.
26. The following description is taken from the
