46. Q. During what period was Roman literature produced, that is usually termed classic? A. From about 80 B. C. to A. D. 108, covering a space of 188 years.
47. Q. What writer begins, and what one ends this period? A. Cicero begins and Tacitus ends it.
48. Q. Who may be regarded as the beginner of Latin literature? A. Livius Andronicus, a writer of tragedy about twenty-four years before Christ.
49. Q. Who wrote a sort of epic on the first Punic war, esteemed by scholars one of the chief lost things in Roman literature? A. Nævius.
50. Q. What is the next great name in Latin literature, and what is said of his influence and example? A. Ennius, and his influence and example decisively fixed the form of the Latin poetry.
51. Q. Who were two great Roman writers of comedy? A. Plautus and Terence.
52. Q. What form of composition in verse may be said to be original with Rome? A. The satire.
53. Q. What seems to be a general fact in literary history, in regard to the first development of a national literature? A. That verse precedes prose.
54. Q. Who was the creator of the classic Roman satire? A. Lucilius.