[6] The shortening of final o, ergo, pono, vigilando, through the influence of accent, is almost the only change made after Ennius except in a few proper names.
[7] Compare that of the horse (II. vi. 506), "Et tum sicut equus qui de praesepibu' fartus Vincla suis magnis animis abrupit, et inde Fert sese campi per caerula laetaque prata Celso pectore, saepe iubam quassat simul altam. Spiritus ex anima calida spumas agit albas," with Virg. Aen. xi. 492.
[8] Lucr. i. 111.
[9] Tr. ii. 424.
[10] Sat. vi. 1.
[11] III. 20, 8.
[12] Imitated respectively, Virg. A. iv. 585; A. i. 539; A. x. 361.
CHAPTER VII.
[1] Satira tota nostra est.—Quint. x. i.
[2] Aen. vi. 847, sqq. G. ii. 190; ib. 461, sqq.