The Roman Poets of the Augustan Age: Virgil Part 36

84 Ep. ii. 1. 117.

''Tis writing, writing now is all the rage.' Martin.

85 'After the result of the campaign of Actium, when the interests of peace demanded that supreme power should be conferred on one man, those great geniuses disappeared. Truth too suffered in many ways, at first from ignorance of public life, as a matter with which men had no concern, and soon from the spirit of adulation.' Hist. i. 1.

86 E. Quinet.

87 Traditum ab antiquis morem. Hor. Sat. i. 4. 117.

88 Me fabulosae Vulture in Apulo, etc. Hor. Od. iii. 4. 9.

89 'Virgile depuis l'heure ou il parut a ete le poete de la Latinite tout entiere.' Sainte-Beuve.

90 'To sing, at my own will, my idle songs,' 'who sang the idle songs of shepherds,' 'my task is on a lowly theme.'

91 'I must strive to find a way by which I may raise myself too above the ground, and speed to and fro triumphant through the mouths of men.'

92 'Give place, all ye Roman writers, give place, ye Greeks: some work, I know not what, is coming to the birth, greater than the Iliad.'

Eleg. iii. 32, 6465.

93 Cf. Wolflin in the Philologus, xxvi, quoted by Comparetti.

94 Tac. De Oratoribus, ch. xiii.

95 'Si Virgile faisait aux Romains cette illusion d'avoir egale ou surpa.s.se Homere, c'est qu'il avait touche fortement la fibre Romaine.' Sainte-Beuve.

96 'Live then, I pray, yet rival not the divine Aeneid, but follow it from afar, and ever reverence its track.' Thebaid xii. 816.

97 'Mantua, home of the Muses, raised to the stars by Aonian song, and rival of the music of Smyrna.' Silius, Punic. viii. 595.

98 E.g. iv. 14. 14; xii. 4. 1; xiv. 186; v. 10. 7; viii. 56, etc.

99 viii. 18. 59.

100 Ep. iii. 7.

101 E.g. i. 162; iii. 199; v. 45, 138, vi. 434, etc.; vii. 66, 226, 236, etc.

102 'When the whole Horace had lost its natural colour, and the soot was sticking to the blackened Virgil.' vii. 226.

103 Green's History of the English People, p. 37.

104 Quoted by Comparetti; and also in Bahr's Romische Literatur.

105 Works of Gavin Douglas, Bishop of Dunkeld, by John Small, M.A., vol.

i. p. cxlv.

106 Carlyle's Translation of the Inferno.

107 Mr. Small, in his account of the writings of Bishop Gavin Douglas, says, 'The works of Virgil pa.s.sed through ninety editions before the year 1500.'

108 See Conington's Introduction to the Aeneid.

109 Appendix to the Henriade.

110 Dict. Philos., art. Epopee.

111 Quoted by Comparetti.

112 Sainte-Beuve, 'Causeries du Lundi.'

113 By Mr. Payne, in the Clarendon Press Series.

114 'Who shall say what share the turning over and over in their mind, and masticating, so to speak, in early life as models of their Latin verse, such things as Virgil's

Disce, puer, virtutem ex me, verumque laborem,

or Horace's

Fortuna saevo laeta negotio,

has not had in forming the high spirit of the upper cla.s.s in France and England, the two countries where Latin verse has most ruled the schools, and the two countries which most have had, or have, a high upper cla.s.s and a high upper cla.s.s spirit?' High Schools and Universities in Germany, by M. Arnold.

115 'Add too the companions of the Muses of Helicon, amongst whom Homer, the peerless, after holding the sceptre-.'

116 Tac. Ann. iv. 38.

117 i. 24. 11.

118 Vol. i. p. 197, Hare and Thirlwall's translation.

119 Lectures on Roman History, vol. iii. p. 131 _et seq._ (London, 1855.)

120 Conington's Virgil, Introduction to vol. ii.

121 Introduction to Eclogue v.

122 Book iii. chap. xiv.

123 He adds the comment, 'Equidem dubito num legerit. Nam et philologos ita iudicare audivi de Virgilio ut non legisse eos appareret.'

124 Questions Contemporaines. L'Instruction Superieure en France.

125 Introduction to the Literature of Europe, Part II. chap. v.

126 Roman Empire, chap. xli.

127 etude sur Virgile.