[47] For details see H. Nettleship, Ancient Lives of Vergil, who holds that there was really only one eviction.
[48] The writings of Augustus are enumerated by Sueton. Aug. 85— (1) Rescripta Bruto de Catone, a reply to Brutus’ pamphlet on Cato; (2) Hortationes ad Philosophiam; (3) De Vita Sua; (4) Life of Drusus (Sueton. Claud. 1); (5) Poems: ‘Sicily’ in hexameters, Epigrams and Fescennine verses; a tragedy, ‘Ajax’ (never finished).
[49] Servius wrote ‘triennio’ perhaps because he thought only of the dates of Ecl. 1 and 10 (H. Nettleship, ibid.).
[50] C. Schaper’s view is that Ecls. 4, 6, and 10 were not written till B.C. 27-25 for a second edition. He supposes Ecl. 6 to allude to the marriage of Marcellus and Julia in 25 (referring 6, 3 to the Aeneid), and Ecl. 10 to be a lament for Gallus, who committed suicide B.C. 27.
[51] Iulus is properly spelt Iullus (as in inscriptions), and is for Iovillos, a diminutive from the stem of Iuppiter.
[52] L. Orbilius Pupillus of Beneventum, who in his Περιαλγής complained of the wrongs of his profession (Sueton. Gramm. 4 and 9).
[53] Maecenas wrote, besides smaller prose works, a history of his own times (Hor. Od. ii. 12, 9; Pliny, N.H. vii. 148).
[54] For Horace’s relations to Propertius see Ep. ii. 2, 91-101, and under ‘Propertius,’ [p. 196].
[55] See G. Boissier, Nouvelles Promenades Archéologiques: Horace et Virgile (Paris, 1886).
[56] Dr. A. W. Verrall’s argument (Studies in Horace, pp. 25 sqq.) that Od. i.-iii. were published B.C. 19 is not convincing.