CHAPTER I.
[1] The Empire is here regarded solely in its influence on literature and the classes that monopolised it. If the poor or the provincials had written its history it would have been described in very different terms.
[2] Pont. iv. 2. Impetus ille sacer, qui vatum pectora nutrit Qui prius in nobis esse solebat abest. Vix venit ad partes; vix sumtae Musa tabellae Imponit pigras paene coacta manus.
[3] Suet. Tib. 70.
[4] Sat. vii. 234.
[5] Livy and Trogus.
[6] Varro.
[7] Cicero.
[8] Juv. vii. 197.
[9] See ii. 94 which contains exaggerated commendations on Tiberius.
[10] The author's humble estimate of himself appears, Si prisci oratores ab Jove Opt. Max. bene orsi sunt … mea parvitas eo iustius ad tuum favorem decurrerit, quod cetera divinitas opinione colligitur, tua praesenti fide paterno avitoque sideri par videtur … Deos reliquos accepimus, Caesarea dedimus.
[11] The reader is referred to Teuffel, Rom. Lit. § 274, 11.
[12] Daremberg.
[13] Notices of Celsus are—on his Husbandry, Quint. XII. xi. 24, Colum. I. i. 14; on his Rhetoric, Quint. IX. i. 18, et saep.; on his Philosophy, Quint. X. i. 124; on his Tactics, Veget. i. 8. Celsus died in the time of Nero, under whom he wrote one or two political works.
[14] See Sen. Contr. Praef. X. 2-4.
[15] Quint. X. i. 91.
[16] Mart. III. 20, Aemulatur improbi iocos Phaedri.
[17] Phaed. III. prol. 21.
[18] Phaed. IV. prol. 11; he carefully defines his fables as Aesopiae, not Aesopi.
[19] Quint. X. i. 95.