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L. 15. columinibus. Ellis hiulis Catullus refers to the I9. LI. peculiar fugar-lout rota formations os Phrygia. L. 19 sterninas, dullis straight to the ears. Ellis quotes huc geminias nunc flecte acies ' Aen. i. p. 118 las line .

nuntia, ver rure usis neuter Substantive. Munro, sordeorum, rend deae tam .

L. 20 leonibus hostem. Lions in connection it tho Magna Mater figure on coitis an in mortis os uri. Ellis quote ταυροκτονων λεον rure ἔφεδρε Soph. Phil. 400. L. b. tua verbera patere f. p. 254 l. 20. 60. III. L. I 0. Quem i. e. TheSeus, prospicit, eheu, Prospicit Ellis prefers eheu to euhoe, tali in it illi the secon prospicit, saZes, uias, stili greges, implying the futilit of the eGrt. L. II. curarum suctuat undis. s. Virg. Aen. V. 32, irarum fiuctuat aestu. Mau imitations of this poem Occurinthe Fouri Aeneid, e. g. in p. 63 l. 1 three PuSSage maybe compared. a L. I. certe ego, etc., Wit p. 109, laStline ut three, ejectum litore, etc. b I. 5, quaenam, etc.,

With nee tibi diva parens. p. 107 l. 7; e l. 23,

Iuppiter Omnipotens, te. Wit P. II 2 l. 16, Feliet heu nimium, etc. ther parallel passages mill e notice iuthei place L. 17. ipsius, of thei mistreSS. L. I. erte avit, maddened Gil. to alienate reo One' SenSeS. Ellis So below, p. 63 l. 17.L. 22. in a curas cf. S. Matth. iii 22, ὁ δὲ ε' τα α καπι

iniusti regis Cortynia tecta. Minos is callest iniustus, pro il babin th reserene to his acon the Atheuiansu and the etymoIog o Gortyna Καρ υ γ ν βουν ' se might Seem toronnee it mitti the Minotaur an identis the Cortynia tecta it the Labyrinth. Ellis. L. 3. hunc timetes, ete. Catullus here horrom much DomApollonius Rhodius picture o Medea L. 8. et illo Here ab mouldie more usual. Canetheraeuseae Doru that time p

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L. I4 incensam iactastis. Notice the confusion os met phora. L. 15. in, sor loveis. Cf. laborantes in uno Penelopen vitreamque Circen.'

L. 17. magis fulgore eaepalluit auri To wellers in SOuther climate, pallor is relative to their usual compleAion Paleyremarlismi pallet ebur. Propertius V. 7, 82, of ivorydosin iis hileness, ahe white-face Saxo is aptio misunderstand the classica idea os pallor, hic impii the oeenisti-yello or bilious in peculiar in oliVs co

L. 19. Oppeteret is no exacti suites to praemia, ut theproper mord an readit be supplied by synesis. L. 20. The ordesis Non tamen ingrata munuscula frustra divis promittens succendit vota tacito labello. et notWithout retur mere the gist sh promise to tho od in Vain i .e. Ot Without return, o that sh promise them in Vain , he o hercii Aho in die the silent roath fvo s.' illis Se his notest theserimo dissiculi lines. L. 26 for et cominus obvia frangens, Munro' most ingenious ementation is come is obit obvia. 62. - . 4. Tectifrustraretur, etc. aes Virg. Aen. V. 59I Falleret indeprensus et irremeabilis error, i 27, inextricabilis error. i. 10. nudatae surae, proleptic, as discerpunt irrita, thirtes lines below.L. 12. a Wit streamin lip sh callodis laint hillsobs. E. O frigidulus, se abOVe, on p. 48 l. 13. L. 13. patriis avectam ab aris, borne nom the helter of

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magistratus creare USSU In rut.

L. 22. s. Virg. eu. v. 316. Per conubia OStra perinceptos hymenae OS. L. 21. Tum iam, 'Do that time onWariis,' .e DomTheseus perivry. L. 26. dum aliquid a simila unpleusing elision Oecur in P. M l. 4.L. 29. metuere, an noristic perfeci So optavere, P. 56, l. I4.

L. I. certe ego, etc. See the notet tho heginning of this oxtrae Curarum fluctuat undis. versantem, being Place in,'or movin tu f. Liv. i. 46. Q. Fabium inter

multas Versantem hostium munuS. L. 5. in iacta, a conspurgo, RSpargine, et: in LucretiuS. L. . qui reddis, since ou return, for the more USUR.

subjune ive Catullus ometimes uses the relative thus in causa sentences CL Stulte Dei qui hunc amisi. l. Mil. ,

L. I. parte, of the coveri et forens volitabat Iacchus 64. LIII. Titian must have ad his passage of Catullus in Viem Wheth paluted the Bacchus an Ariadne o our ational

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Gallery The circumstance of Baechus stin nihimseli Domitis carrioward Ariadne is a toue due to the palater atone. Ad the other lucident urerio heriound in the poet.' Martiti. 64. III. L. 2. Nysigenis bor on Mount Nysa, in India, hene heis returning in triumph. L. 6. tecici, covered Wit vine leavesor ira, or fir OneS. L. 7. pars, etc. CL Eurip. Bacchae.

epitheis are invertexto expres the blenning of eae colo tuto the other, the whit hai and the excitets.

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seminine. L. 8. tit rhine, th smul circular plute culle d

itis, olearis , us opposed to the unprepared OOl. ti Ellis tulies it tote os oster, ruther than in theordinur sense s stri ped. 'This poem in Spitem iis ruggedues uni harsh elisions, e I,VI. is Wondersuli intense an natural That Lesbia a thenotorious Clodia, is est utilis hed by a number of independentlinlis. Se Munro's Criticism uia Elucidatioris, p. 194. In this sindri tho sollowin extrae I have adopted his reudings in presere e to the textos Ellis L. 7. cuiquam, norun munWhateveros ali me in existence. Cf. Seneca Cuivis potest necidere quod cuiquam potest; ' hie . quod ulli omnium hominum Recidere potest, id cuivis homini, mihi vel tibi vel isti, accidere potest. Quisquam Occursint in negative Orquasi negative Sentences It Seem to impi universality, quisquam Romanus, any one WhateVer os ali ho are Romans. Iudaei, quisquam might be calle tho substantiveo ullus the adjective, thei significations and usagesaeing qui te coextensive and this passage in Catullus might e Paraphrased 'quaecunque ullus omnium homo ulli omnium homini aut dicere aut facere potest. Thus both ullus and quisquam are mos commoni met illi in negative sentences, o hypothetical, Sι ullus,' quisquam,' quicquam etc. What is meantina quasi negative sentenc might be illustrate by thus paraphrasing Catullus nemo quicquum cuiquam dicere aut facere poteSt, quod a me non dictum factumve sit '-H. A J. Munro. L. 19. puriter blamelesSly, i. e. De from mei impIety. L. I 0 quantum gaudet, i. e. quantum gaudium habet. At 67. Luri

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Aen. i. 3.

form them, as in cloeus ad insidias natus. Cf. Cie Ciat. I. 2o. Ad hane te amentiam natura peperit, Volunta eXercuit, fortuna Servavit. Verr. iii I 80. Qui tibi ad statuas pecunia contulerunt. Ter Heaut iv. 5, 29. Argentum dabitur ei ad nuptias munere, by Way os asin. Ut miSSum sponsi furtivo munem malum' Cat. l. I9 is referrexto by Enis. hut the spnse of the ablative here is much les obvious. HunCatullus rit te something like 'quae data sunt a me tristi munere ad in , the construction Oul have been Xaet lyparallel But the foressither Seem ni t have auded do the lashion, hiuli Catullus follo est, an ii as he, no they, ho ad the present. Perhaps a confusion of the two notion is no very untiatur9 und the ancestor in haudin do the fashion a b underst Ood in a marias actually mahing the preSent. 69. LX. CaeSar Wrote theSe line a a rejoinde to an epigram o Cicero' o Teren e. L. 6. unum hoc maceror, Wordsmori quotes Dom Ovid a similaris of maceror: Maceror interdum quod sim tibi causa dolendi.

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and ut the fame time, proud of his poWers of acting. II Was ninto gla to tali adVantage of an apparently resisti es command and tot reimbursed in the wayhe was, and ut the fame time, o tocios his ranli, hic Caesar pretenden to restore tingi vingaim a linigh Us fortune. L. 7. curgus tranSNerSi cultin uerOS thei path, and soth arting, croSSing, topping. f. Cic. Brutus 97, 331. Cuius in adolescentiam per media laudes quasi quadrigis vehentem transversa incurrit misera fortuna reipublicae.' alio calamities of tho CommotiWealth run athmari Ourpath aud stopacu in the iddie of Our triumph. L. . detrusit, i. e. detrusiSti, a tristi for trivisti Cat. xvi. 30. traeterior traxisse. Aen. V. 786. laeet for ViXiSSet, i. 118. L. 13. ecce, etc. 'Se ho ensit in m age I have senerive lao m positio by the rent man S SOR, gentie, flatierin speech, the ulterance of his gractous foui. labefecit loco is almost a synonymo movere de statu, in theprevi ous line Status signi sies the whole altitudo and position hic a soldier ahes pon the batilecteid, locus heing the spodion whic hellanis his Det clemente probablyrefers to Caesar' mell-known charReter OP clemenen Atthe fame time, it is perhaps Such a compliment a Would in an eas beauid omne in Caesar' position.

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lHE poetry to hicli, no come Is Separate Dya very brie interva froni that containsed in thepreVious Ooli. The Eclogues egu in theyear 2 . , o tW years after the death os Caesar, ere complete an publishod probabi in 7 B.α But th advane that date lao the firSt uppearane os Virgil is trul marvellous. In the nrs place fur reater caretegan to e besto est pon mere metrica Structure. Compare the heXameter of the writers of the forme periodwith the fame metrem trealed by the master-hand of Virgil. W may admit that ueretius has a dignit of his Wn Andfrequently display a quite peculia poWer of d pictin a Seene by u Singie Ord. e ma concede to Catullus astron and OWersu volume o expression Stili, in thes mer me Dei the Want of greater variet and more artistic Structure, hile, in the alter, e mi ut times to seleel sufficient fluene and harmony. His lines alien singly ure fuit os sweetnessa ut therare seido linked together, undare, heresore apto become monotonous. Again the Elegiae metre, hiuli in Catullus luxuriates in unmeasured perio's, o began to e restratne Within far stricter limitations. Elision no longe is mei With in themides of the pentameter, and the trisyllabi enclings admitte by Tibullus and Propertius areis extremel rare Oecurrenue in Ovid. Tho capabilities of Elegia verse mere larget deVe- Iopedi Propertius, a seen in his studio use of Word os Durior five syllabies at the close of the pentameter, and also in the force and grandeur Wit Whic many of his distich con- elude H loves to expand nn dra out a sentiment hyvarying the mode DeXpression, an artisse exempliste m

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the ope ning os the last elegyis the isti, Book. ut it is to Tibullus that Quintilian lives the pulmis Ele , an sem aderam hi in ca sui tot strueli illi his se os forciti leunti thesis, ' und with the extrem ne utiles With hic hebaiauces the component paris Os his couplet Oae guinSteacti other.

In the neX place various styles egu to e surther develope or ad Opted rom Greec during this period. The persecting of the Roman Epiun the recustin and potishingos Satire, us et a the introductionis almost ali the Lyrio metres by HOrace, date Do the fame epoch. o vidagain is duo the creditis originali in though a simila morkliud been contemplate by Propertius for the idea under-lyin his iusti the investigating, systematiZing, undeXpouudin in livet an ingenious umber the Suece Sive stage of the Roman eur Aster the final inauguratio of eace, through the influenc O Maecenas, Messala, uni Augustus himself, poetr held ut more and more attractions O me Os talent, a literar purauit in generat,ere more an more mel comedisne the long distractionis,ur. What further contributexto the sam endWas the praetice of recitations introduce or revi 'ed by

C. Asinius Pollio, ho himself ut Onc orator, historian, and dramatist, ounde therars public librar a Rome. The original idea underimn this custom a that here ovi be an opportunit os testin public opinion ToSOme extent, therefore, it supplied the place of the moderareriem Aster som years the ashion O recit in became corrupted an iis abus is more than ne ridicule byHorace. Os severat of the Augustan writers, nothin be-yon their ames has come domito us Valgius, Varius, Gallus, an Albinovanus ero ali celebrate in thei time. O tho tost orlis os his perio there are imo hic me

Instit. Orat. X. l. 3. See Dissen de oesi Tibulli. See Ars Poet. 299. EP. II. i. I 08 sq.

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should very gladi posses - the Thyestes os Varius and the Medea os Ovid. Both of them are spolien os in ighterm hy Quintilian, and these Wo plays Would have been the more acceptabie in consequetice of the paucit os Imriter os Tragedy From a variet os re Ons the Drama could neve adaptritaeis to the genius of the Romanaeople. The permanent insuence exerciSed by the conquest os numerous Orei uaces pon the lan age and literatur os Rome is a mini,hich cannot be entiret passed OVer, thoughthe subjectris saret 'iderio bearented ad ualet Milita thepresent limit s. shile, grant that the Roman were thus te to solio mor eare sully the Uree modeis, and M.therefore a higher standardis excellene constanti hesoret heir yes; in the ther hane, to great deseretice Was casionalty paid o Grecte. Theaeennes os native talenteoni notanti des led by the tirighines of the olde poets. Mne that was indigenous could notiui die out While muchthat a Drei 'oo ita place Instances of this alter admisturae cur in the Fasti of Ovid, and his Heroides εω have been omposed in imitationis the Gree Parthenius. Stili, the nationR character is abundanti recteete in the poeta of this age. The marithe spiritis the me is learly read in the many metaphora derive hom the eamp. Theide os Rome, a the destinet ruter os the Orid, up ars

. . z. Signa morit, os a buli Georg. iii 226. uua emum vis vet arma leo, AP n. xii. 6. Ilia cupit . . . mo ruit in turmas, o di tigre,s, Stat Theti ii. D. M Corvorum eaercitus, Georg. i. 282. Phorcique exere laus omnisi, Aen. v. 824. Ad Philosophos me re- - , qui in cisem non saepe Prodeunt, Cic. Tusc. H. xv. o. Caree Musa ree plus, Ov. Trist. Iv. ix al. quibus M. Olcecinia r e-ytui, Cic. Tusc. m. v. a. erdidit arma. Ocum virtutis deseruit. Hor. p. r. xxi M. Iacto qui emine comminus, arva In equitur. Geore. i. m. s. Aen. i. Θῆ-l92. comminus D truncat erro se cervos , GHora iii. 274. Viso leo eomminus hoste Lucan. i. 2 s cupi sentium udia castra peto, l. III. xvi. 22. In Epicuri e coniecinius.' Cic. ad DiV. II. 20. tra togae, 'ov. Reni. Amor. I 52. Tranε tulit Cafitra,' Martiat. V.