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contain the Moretum os Vergil and the poemos Claudianus o the Phoenix. The intense interest an furious controvers aroused by this discover of Marinus, and the suggestions os fraud that eremad by o many were undoubtedi respon- sibi for a very remarkable attemptis thepar of one Fran is Nodo in 1693 ista rea forger Upon the learned worid. No- dot who was a French soldier os fortune and possessed os a seir education, came forward with hat professe to e an entire copyo Petronius. The stor tot by him asthis That ne u in had been present atthe tormin o Alba Graeca Belgrade in
I 688, and in the sack of the own had secureda manuscript of great antiquit writte in character very dissiculi to decipiter; that this manuscript ad been copie by omeperSO no named, and by him rought in the op to a merchantis Frankfort-on-the Mai salso no named who ad in thecourse of time sent it tomodo in France.
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This story though omewhat dubious onthe face of it was ingenious in ne reSpeci, in that it absolved modo fro the necessityos producing the original manu script iself The op was laid e re the provinciat Academies of Nimes and Artes, an astereXamining the teXt, and listening to Nodot's story the Latinisis of thos institutions ereconvince of the genuinenes of both. The
motio, Nodi solvuntur a Nodo. It is fortunate for the reputationis Frenchclassical scholarship, o Seri OUSi comprΟ-mised by the credulit of the faculties of Nimes, and Artes that the fraudulent character of Nodot' production a at Oncedetecte and exposed by a Frenchman, P. D. Huet, best known a the author of the work De Origine Fabularum It is dissiculi, in deed, o se ho even a third rate Latinistcould have been imposed pon for the Latin os Nodot' texi a no meret bad,
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no meret no the Latin o Petronius, ut ver evidently the Latin os a seventeenth- centur Frenchman. So he we in suchphrases and word as ad scientias explicandas
molesti impetri, and castella for villa, it is ver clear indeed that the angvage is the Latinis Paris an no the Latin o Rome.
It was also a suspicious circumstance that
Nodot' manu script supplied Ver omission in the existin teXt illi the exception filios found etween hapter 26 and 73, i. e. in the Cena Trimalchionis, a fac whicliseeme to ho that he hran froni theattempto fili in the teXt here a minute knowledge of archaeologica delat was absolutet essentiat.
chance of success, and soon easexto e dis cusses; though ascit supplies a continuous narrative in place of what ould therwisebe a fragmentar and roken ne SeVeraleditor have printe his additions as a parto the authenti teXt, distinguishiniit ome- times by the se of a different type.
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as an amuSemen and to est the acumen of
the critics, published a Strasburg, in Ι 8OO, asinali fragmen purporting toae the par of the ex missing rom the wenty-siXth chapter after the word subinde osculis Verberabat. This fragment, hich would malae in Buch eler' teXt om 3 lines, and whicli a cliena latine to have found a St. Galle in Switzerland had absolutely no internalmark of fraud It was an altogether persectimitatio of the style and manne of etronius, and was Dan indecenc that i anything. surpassed the indecenc of the origina text. The ni objectio that scholars could malaeto it was the objectio based upo the factilia Marchena ould no produce the manuscript copy hicli e professe to ave und Havin received this tribute to his Petronian nowledge, howeVer, Marchena promptly acknowledged that he had himselfwritiei the fragmentis a pure oax Since
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that time there have been no add1tions tolli accepte teXt, ither genuine or fraudulenta though the os book of Petronius, like the os book of LiVy, continue t tantalis contemporar Latinisis illi the opeo thei ultimate recOVery.
There is a passage in Sidonius Apollinaris in hicli the poet, addressing etronius in company illi Cicero, LiVy, and Vergil, associales him illi Marseilles:
Ouid vos eloquii canam Latini Artinas, Patavine, Mantuane λEt te assiliensium per hortos Sacri stipitis, Arbiter, Colonum Hellespontiaco parem Priapo
Servius, again, in his commentary dealingwith a line of the net mites Petronius as an authority regardin a certain sage of thepeople o Marseilles. t is a temptin suggestio that ne find in these two strayallusions hicli imply a Gallic nativity fortite author of the greates novel o antiqui ty. There is probabi no ther eopte Xcept
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characteristic so completet a the auis. The passage of Caesar, and Ven hos of Cato that describe them, re a true to-dayas the observations os Philip Gilbert Hanae ton or r. . C. Browneli The nerVous OagerneSS O somethin new, the lac of political stabili ty the rasti bravery the impulsiVeness, the love os arsere and of lagoire, the intellectua quickness, the fond-nes for brilliant alli, - at these were noteddown or u two thousand ear ago, and the stili remain the mos strikin character istic of the modern French. Upora the original stoc sonae ther element have been grafled, ut they have been absolutely assimilated. The orseman and the Teuton, on French soli, have become thoroughruelis. It is, there re a temptin hypothesis that malae Petronius the literary prede
cessor of thos preternaturali cleVer riterso modern France hos spirit at eas is
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that hicli reathes in very page of the
Satira Perfeci recision and firmnes of stylistic ouch are their and his A per-VaSive cynicism - no the cynicis in that malae men bitter, ut the far more hopetesscynicism that malae them ulteri contempt- uous - the share With him. The versatilily, the een observation the nerring Strodes of the reat iterar artist, are OnSPicUOUS in both. The exuat instinci, perVaSiVe, alWay present, an manifested at the ostunexpected times, his too Petronius hares
with the school o Gustave Flauberi and Gu de Maupassant. I he was a Roman by race, a Roma a Cicero and Tacitus Were Roman it is strange indeed that he
but that o see a fittin parallel for his strangely rilliant fiction e must paSS Verthe intervening centuries an finxit oni in
Our Wn centur and in the literar ar of modern France.
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THE CENA TRIMALCHIONIS TRIMALCHIO'S inne part is oneo the reat masterpieces of comicliterature. Wholi apar fio the picturei gives One of the ver best that have
come down to us fio ancient times - of
the typical lis of the Roma bourgeoisie, apar fio the archaeologica value of the wealthi minute delatis in hicli it abound s, and part also rom iis unusua linguistic interest in givin us connected specimens of the plebeia Latinit os datly life it is Dombeginning to end a bit os character-dra ingand ustaine sun to e ranked illi thecreations o Fieldin and Dichens in Eng-listi, o Stinde in German, and of Daudet in French. Trimalchio himself is a grotesque composite o Titilebat Tilmous and Tartarini his Ioint of ilew and ,hat
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painter might cali his atmosphere, arethos of the immorta Familie Buch holet. The two companions, Encolpius and Ascyltus, re invite to a in ne give bythi personage, and the narrative of their experieraces there salven in fuit. Trimalchio is a Deedman who, avin secured his star in is by no very daint practices, has
amasse an enormous fortune and is now
his money, and anXious also to Seem a manos literar attainmenis, though his ignorance of verythiniis unbounded. His compara tons at table are early ali me of his own rank and there is his is Fortunata, asharp, practical, lire isti litile oman towhose fidelit an care Trimalchio, ho has some good potnis, frankl ascribes a largestiare of his SucceSS. The delatis of the dinne arealven in fuit, and the mixture os lavisti profusion and ulter
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lachisiaste and saυoirfaire recati the description by Horace of the dinner hicli the snob Nasidienus ave in honour o Maecenas Sat. i. ). Trimalchio oes no come tothe table unti his guest have been eatedand the dinne is et unde way. When hedoe enter, Somewhat after the fashion of the Dulae of Omnium in ramis ' Parsonage, hetalae care to et his guest know that he is a
par in the conversation. Eggs are SerVedunde a Wooden hen, and when operaed prove