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40 Succensus recites, maculosas commodat ædes.
Hæc longe ferrata domus servire jubetur,
In qua sollicitas imitatur janua portas.
Scit dare libertos extrema in parte sedentes
Ordinis et magnas comitum disponere voces.

45 'Nemo dabit regum, quanti subsellia constent cort
Et quæ conducto pendent anabathra tigillo, siz,
Quæque reportandis posita est orchestra cathedris.
Nos tamen hoe agimus tenuique in pulvere sulcos
Ducimus et litus sterili versamus aratro.
50 Nam si discedas, laqueo tenet ambitiosi

Consuetudo mali': tenet insanabile multos
Scribendi cacoethes et ægro in corde senescit.

(JA.) Diatr. on Eur. fr. p. 169. (VK.)
HR.

40. Recites on this custom see Pers.
i. 15 sqq. PR. notes on i. 1. 12 sq. R.
Of Saleius Bassus the poet (v. 80.),
Tacitus (if he be the author) says:
quum toto anno, per omnes dies, magna
noctium parte, unum librum extudit et
elucubravit, rogare ultro et ambire cogitur,
ut sint, qui dignentur audire; et ne id
quidem gratis: nam et domum mutuatur,
et auditorium exstruit, et subsellia con-
ducit, et libellos dispergit; et ut beatissi-
mus recitationum ejus eventus prosequatur,

omnis illa laus intra unum aut alterum
diem, velut in herba vel flore præcepta, ad
nullam certam et solidam pervenit frugem,
nec aut amicitiam inde refert, aut cliente-
lam, aut mansurum in animo cujusquam
beneficium, sed clamorem vagum et voces
inanes et gaudium volucre; D. de Or. 9.
R.

41. A house that has been long
untenanted.' R.

To be at your service.' R.

42. Whose portals, bolted and barred, resemble the gates of a besieged town.' LU.

On these occasions three kinds of seats were used: (1) subsellia' the benches in the body of the room;' (2) anubuthra 'the rising seats ranged against the walls of the apartment;' (3) cathedræ chairs, for the better sort of company, in front of the benches, and immediately before the stage from which the reciter spoke.' LI.

46. Pendent rise above the floor.' cf. xi. 107. Sil. i. 128. vi. 645. R.

47. The chairs, being merely hired for the occasion, were to be carried back' and paid for, as soon as done with. LU. PR.

Orchestra; iii. 178. PR.

48. We are busily intent upon our unprofitable task.' SCH. cf. 20. M. i. 17 sq. R.

To sow seeds on the sands' and 'to plow the seashore' were proverbs to express labour in vain.' E. quid arena semina mandas? non profecturis litora bubus aras; Ov. Her. v. 115 sq. SCH. cf. i. 157, note. M.

49. Sterile,' i. e. without the prospect of any return for our trouble. 203. xii. 97. Mart. I. lxxvii. 14. X. xviii. 3. R. Vertere 6

to turn,' versare 'to keep

R.

50. If you try to draw off.' PR.
'Holds enchained.' cf. xiii. 239 sqq.:
Vain-glorious;' ambitiosa pauper-
tas; iii. 182. Liv. xlv. 36, 8. (GRO.)
Quint. I. ii. 22. (SPA.) R.

51. Custom,' which is second nature.
seu stupor huic studio, sive est insania
nomen; Ov. PO.

52." The insatiate itch of scribbling

Sed vatem egregium, cui non sit publica vena,
Qui nihil expositum soleat deducere nec qui

55 Communi feriat carmen triviale moneta,ljar. Hunc, qualem nequeo monstrare et sentio tantum, Anxietate carens animus facit, omnis acerbi trouble, Impatiens, cupidus silvarum aptusque bibendis Fontibus Aonidum. Neque enim cantare şub antro 60 Pierio thyrsumve potest contingere sana Paupertas atque æris inops, quo nocte dieque

دو

Creeps, like a tetter, through the human
breast, Nor knows, nor hopes, a cure.'
G. xaxóndes was, properly, a kind of
ulcer, very
difficult to cure. Cels. v. 28, 2.
Plin. xxii. 25. PR. Id. xxiv. 3. 10.
στέξαι τὴν νόσον οὐ δύναμαι· Pallad. xv. 4.
tanta meo comes est insania morbo; Ov.
Tr. ii. 15. R.

Agro distempered.' M. LU.
Corde; i. 45. R.

53. Ingenium cui sit, cui mens divinior, atque os magna sonaturum, des nominis hujus honorem; Hor. I S. iv. 43 sq. PR. γόνιμον δὲ ποιητὴν ἂν οὐχ εὕροις ἔτι, ζητῶν ἂν, ὅστις ῥῆμα γενναῖον λάκοι· Arist. R. 96 sq. FA. Poeta nascitur, non fit; therefore it is absurd for any one to attempt to turn poet for the sake of bread. cf. iii. 78. Hor. II Ep. ii. 51. Pers. pr. 8 sqq. (CAS.) An Augustus and a Mecenas are not to be met with in every age. 62. R.

A poetical vein :' a metaphor from mining. R. ego nec studium sine divite vena, nec rude quid possit video ingenium; Hor. A. P. 409 sqq. PR.

54. Expositum vulgar.' Quint. II. v. 19. (SPA.) X. v. 11. Stat. I S. ii. 24. Theb. ii. 188. R.

To spin out.' GRÆ. 224. tenui deducta poemata filo; Hor. II Ep. i. 225. Ov. Tr. I. i. 39. Pont. I. v. 13. výbεoba odás Antip. Ep. lxx. Tib. IV. i. 211. Pers. v. 5. (CAS.) R. cf. proferre and producereto issue,' in Hor. A. P. 55, "

58 sq.
He, from the glowing mint of
fancy, pours No spurious metal, fused
from common ores, But gold, to match-
less purity refined, And stamp'd with all
the godhead in his mind." G.

Ferire to hit off.' M.

Non tu in triviis, indocte, solebas stridenti miserum stipula disperdere carmen?

Virg. E. iii. 26. PR. effugiendum est ab omni verborum vilitate, et sumendæ voces a plebe summota; Petron. GRÆ. Cic. for Mur. 6. pr. cf. x. 22. Ov. Tr. IV. i. 5 sqq. Calp. i. 28. (WE.) R.

Stamp.' Gracas voces Latina moneta percutere; Apul. Ap. p. 298, 33. Sen. Ep. 34, extr. licebit signatum præsente nota producere nomen; Hor. A. P. 58 sq. (BY.) R. PR.

57. Ov. Tr. v. 12. Hor. I Od. xxvi.

1. R.

58. Impatient of restraint;' G. exempt from suffering.' R.

Carmina secessum scribentis et otia quærunt; Ov. scriptorum chorus omnis amat nemus et fugit urbes, rite cliens Bacchi somno gaudentis et umbra; Hor. II Ep. ii. 77 sq. PR. Bacchum in remotis carmina rupibus vidi docentem; II Od. xix. 1 sq. (MI.) VS. me gelidum nemus secernit populo; I Od. i. 30. 32. IV Od. iii. 10-12. cf. 8. Tac. de Or. 9 extr. R.

59. Aonian Nymphs.' In Boeotia, (the mountainous part of which was called Aonia, M.) there were many spots sacred to the Muses; LU. as Hippocrene, Helicon, Aganippe. cf. 6. PR. Pers. pr. 1. (K.) Prop. II. viii. 19 sqq. R. Virg. E. vi. 65.

60. Pierian,' 8. FA. Hor. I Od. xxxii. 1. II Od. i. 39. III Od. iv. 40. (BY.) R.

The thyrsi were the spears of Bacchus and his votaries, enwreathed with vineleaves and ivy.' PR. The blow of the god's wand was supposed to communicate inspiration; and hence those thus inspired were called ugroяλñуss. GR. see note

on 58.

Corpus eget: satur est, quum dicit Horatius EVOE!
Quis locus ingenio, nisi quum se carmine solo
Vexant et dominis Cirrhæ Nysæque feruntur
65 Pectora nostra, duas non admittentia curas?

Magnæ mentis opus nec de lodice paranda anket,
Adtonitæ, currus et equos faciesque Deorum
Adspicere et qualis Rutulum confundat Erinnys.

Inops; note on iii. 164.

62. If Horace (see II S. ii. 49–54.) ever felt what it was to want, it was but for a short time. He was in affluent circumstances before the battle of Philippi, and three years after it, he was taken into the favour of Mæcenas; and his best poems were written subsequently to this period. His Odes were mostly composed later than his Satires. M. R.

Eva; Hor. II Od. xix. 5. 7. BRI. 100 (from and oi); Virg. Æ. vii. 389. Ov. M. iv. 522. cf. Eur. Ph. 660. B. 141. (BAR.) A rist. Th. 999. (BOU.) Sidon. Ep. viii. 9. R.

Feruntur; vi. 315, note.

65. Two cares,' poetry and the providing of necessaries. LU.

66. Lodice; vi. 195. R.

67. Over anxious' LU. 'distracted' M. bewildered' 'nervous.'

In this and the following lines Juvenal alludes to various passages in Virgil, (to whom he was evidently very partial,) but chiefly to these two: (1) ̃ Divûm inclementia, divúm has evertit opes sternitque a culmine Trojam. adspice: &c. jam summas arces Tritonia, respice, Pallas insedit, nimbo effulgens et Gorgone sævu. ipse pater Danais animos viresque 63. Spenser had this passage in his secundas sufficit; ipse deos in Dardana thoughts, when he wrote the following suscitat arma. apparent diræ facies noble lines: "The vaunted verse a va inimicaque Troja numina magna Ďeûm; cant head demaundes; Ne wont with En. ii. 602-623. (2) luctificam Alecto crabbed care the Muses dwell; Un- dirarum ab sede sororum infernisque ciet wisely weaves, that takes two webbes in tenebris; &c. Alecto exarsit in iras. at hand. Who ever casts to compasse juveni oranti subitus tremor occupat wightie prise, And thinkes to throwe out artus; deriguére oculi; tot Erinnys sibithundring words of threat, Let powre in lat hydris, tantaque se facies aperit: &c. lavish cups, and thriftie bittes of meate, olli somnum ingens rumpit pavor, ossaque et For Bacchus fruite is friend to Phoebus artus perfundit toto proruptus corpore wise; And, when with wine the braine, sudor; Æn. vii. 323-571. PR. These begins to sweat, The numbers flowe as are good specimens of the sublime, espefast as spring doth rise. Thou kenst not, cially the first; yet might not our author Percie, how the rime should rage; O if. have found, in the compass of Latin my temples were distain'd with wine, poetry, something more to his purpose? And girt in girlonds of wilde yvie twine, From Ennius, Horace has a quotation How I could reare the Muse on stately of much force and sublimity: and Lustage, And teach her tread aloft in buskincretius (who had also his Mæcenas) fine, With quaint Bellona in her equi; page!" Shep. Cal. Ægl. x. G.

64. Apollo and Bacchus were the lords' of Cirrha and Nysa : VS. of which, the former was the sea-port of Delphi near the base of Parnassus, LU. Mart. I. lxxvii. the latter some mountain or city of the East; but there were no less than eleven places of this name: Apoll. III. iv. 3. and Virg. Æ. vi. 806. (HY.) R. Strab. xv. Diod. iv. 5. v. 1. Mart. IV. xliv. PR. from some one of which the god was called Dionysus. M. note on Her. iv. 87.

would have furnished examples of greater fire and animation. But Lucretius was doomed to misfortune: his contemporaries neither saw his beauties nor his defects; and succeeding writers, if they .did not entirely neglect his poetry, plundered him, and were silent. His philosophy ruined his poetry in the eyes of Rome. G. cf. Virg. Æ. xii. 326 sq. M.

68. The Rutulian,' vi. 637. PR. i.

162.

The Furies were three in number, Alecto, Tisiphone, and Megæra. LU.

Nam si Virgilio puer et tolerabile dêsset
70 Hospitium, caderent omnes a crinibus hydri :
Surda nihil gemeret grave buccina.

Poscimus, ut sit
Non minor antiquo Rubrenus Lappa cothurno,

plates, Cujus et alveolos et lænam pignerat Atreus.
Найт,
Non habet infelix Numitor,.quod mittat amico:
75 Quintillæ quod donet, habet; nec defuit illi,
Unde emeret multa pascendum carne leonem
Jam domitum : constat leviori belua sumtu
Nimirum et capiunt plus intestina poeta.
Contentus fama jaceat Lucanus in hortis
80 Marmoreis: at-Serrano tenuique Saleio

69. Had not Virgil been in easy circumstances, the energy of his genius would have flagged.' LU. Virgil (if we can credit Donatus) possessed (prope centies HS.) about a million and a half sterling, owing to the munificence of his friends, and had a town house in Esquilie near the gardens of Mæcenas, though he spent most of his time in retirement at his Campanian villa (Gell. vii. 20.) and in Sicily. R.

71. Surda, by catach resis, signifies 'mute' as well as deaf.' LU. xiii. 194. M. Sil. vi. 75. xapos has the same variety of meaning. R. note on Her. i. 34.

Gemeret; ii. 90. LU.

Buccina; Virg. Æ. 511-522. PR.
'Yet, forsooth, we are so unreasonable
as to expect.' R.

72. Rubrenus Lappa was an ingenious,
but needy, tragic poet. VS.

Cothurno; vi. 506. 634. Eschylus,
Sophocles, and Euripides were wealthy
and influential men in their day. LU. cf.
Pind. Ol. iii. 9 sq.

73. Alveolos; v. 88. T. PR.
Lænam; iii. 283. v. 131. PR.
Pignerat 'occasions the pawning of.'
135. 92. iii. 116. T.

Atreus is the name of a tragedy of his:
thus Agave, Pelopea, Philomela, 87. 92.
Telephus, Orestes, and Tereus, i. 5 sq.
vii. 12. R. Atreus, the son of Pelops
and Hippodamia, and king of Mycenae,
slew the children of Thyestes who were
born in adultery of his queen, and served
them up to their own father. Sen. Thy.
PR.

trician.' SCH. viii. 93. R. infelix is used ironically: his meanness was his misfortune. VS.

75. Quintilla his mistress. VS. pauper amicitiæ cum sis, Lupe, non es amica; Mart. IX. iii. 1. R.

76. This was a fancy among_the Romans. Lamprid. Heliog. 21. Plin. viii. 8 sq. 16 sq. 52. Gell. v. 14. Mart. Sp. x. II. lxxv. &c. PR. I. cv. Capit. Gord. 33. R.

77. Hanno the Carthaginian, according to Pliny, was the first who 'tamed' a lion. T.

78. Nimirum; ii. 104, note. R.

Capiunt; Ov. A. A. iii. 757. (H.) R. 79. It is true that a wealthy person may write for fame, and fame only.' LU. cf. 81. quid petitur sacris, nisi tantum fama, poetis? hoc votum nostri summa laboris habet; Ov. A. A. iii. 403 sq.

M. Annæus Lucanus, a very rich Roman knight, of Cordova in Spain, the son of L. Ann. Mella and nephew of Seneca the tragedian, and an intimate friend of Saleius Bassus and Persius. According to Quintilian, he was an orator rather than a poet: x. 1. He was at first a favourite with Nero, but was put to death by that tyrant in the flower of his age. Tac. xv. PR. Id. xvi. 17. R.

Hortis; cf. Ov. Tr. I. xi. 37. ACH. Plin. xix. 4 pr. Cic. Off. iii. 14. R. i. 75, note.

80. Serranus (cf. Virg. Æ. vi. 845.(H.) Cic. Rosc. Am. 18. Plin. xviii. 3. Val. Max. IV. iv. 5.) was a family name of the Atilian clan. Plin. iii. 14. Sil. vi. 62. (DR.) PER, An. Hist. i. p. 24. 33.

Gloria quantalibet quid erit, si gloria tantum est? · Curritur ad vocem jucundam et carmen amicæ Thebaidos, lætam fecit quum Statius urbem Promisitque diem. Tanta dulcedine captos 85 Afficit ille animos tantaque libidine vulgi. Auditur; sed, quum fregit subsellia versu, Esurit, intactum Paridi nisi vendat Agaven. Ille et militiæ multis largitur honorem, Semestri vatum digitos circumligat auro.