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[49] _E.g._ Pallentem Famam, ch. 13. The expression--Augustus eloquentiam sient cetera _pacaverat_; and that so admirably paraphrased by Pitt (ch.

36), Magna eloquentia, sicat flamma, materia alitur et motibus excitatur et urendo clarescit.

[50] Ch. 3.

[51] Esp. ch. 10, 11.

[52] Notably the history of the Jews. Hist. v.

[53] Ann. iv. 32.

[54] De Bury, _Les Femmes de l'Empire_.

CHAPTER VIII.

[1] For an excellent account of this inconstant prince see his biography by Aelius Spartia.n.u.s, who preserves other poems of his.

[2] Cf. Dom. 12, Interfuisse me _adolescentulum_ memini c.u.m inspiceretur senex (a Domitiano). From Gram. 4, Ner. 57, as compared with this, we should infer that he was about fifteen in the year 90.

[3] Ep. i. 18.

[4] Ep. iii. 8.

[5] Paneg. Traj. 95.

[6] Ep. i. 24.

[7] _E.g._ Fronto writing under Antoninus mentions him as still living.

[8] Hist. Var. 6, 874-896 (Roth).

[9] De Spect. 5.

[10] _Ad Aen._ 7, 612: Tria suntgenera trabearum; nuum diis sacratum, quod est tantum de purpura; aliud regum, quod est purpureum, habet tanem alb.u.m aliquid; tertium augurale de purpura et cocco. The other pa.s.sage (_Ad Aen._ 2, 683) describes the different priestly caps, the _apex_, the _tubulus_, and the _galerus_.

[11] Etym. 18, 2, 3.

[12] Perhaps the word _Stemma_ should be supplied before _syngenikon_.

[13] In one MS. is appended to Suetonius's works a list of grammatical observations called _Differentiae sermonum Remmi Palaemonis ex libro Suetoni Tranquilli qui inscribitur Pratum_. Roth prints these, but does not believe them genuine.

[14] It will be found _Ner._ 47-49.

[15] Qualis artifex pereo.

[16] Many of these e.j.a.c.u.l.a.t.i.o.ns are in Greek. On this see note i. p. 37.

[17] Usually (from the Cod. Bamberg.) Julius Florus; but Mommsen considers this a corruption.

[18] Riese, _Anthol. Lat._ p. 168-70; ib. No. 87, p. 101. Some have ascribed the _Pervigilium Veneris_ to him.