[57] Ed. by Mommsen in Ephemeris Epigraphica, 1892, p. 225.
[58] For Horace’s eclectic position in philosophy, cf. Ep. i. 1, 14-15,
‘Nullius addictus iurare in verba magistri,
quo me cumque rapit tempestas, deferor hospes.’
[59] As suggested to us by Prof. W. M. Ramsay. For Horace’s opinion of Catullus cf. Sat. i. 10, 18-9,
‘Simius iste,
nil praeter Calvum et doctus cantare Catullum.’
[60] See Th. Mommsen, Sitzungsberichte der königl. preuss. Akad. der Wissenschaften zu Berlin. 24 Jan. 1889.
[61] A Peripatetic of the third century B.C., who wrote a popular account of the literary and philosophical views of his school.
[62] E. Voss, Die Natur in der Dichtung des Horaz (Düsseldorf, 1889).
[63] As pointed out by A. W. Verrall, Studies in Horace, p. 134 sqq.
[64] This poem is probably referred to by Hor. Od. iv. 4, 19-22.