[65] M. Valerius Messalla Corvinus, author of memoirs of the Civil War (Tac. Ann. iv. 34), love poems (Pliny, Ep. v. 3, 5), and works on grammar (Quint. i. 7, 35).
[66] Dessau, Inscr. Lat. Sel. 2925. Serg. stands for Serg[ia tribu], and is not a cognomen Sergio.
[67] See Pliny, Ep. v. 9, 2.
[68] This question was first satisfactorily worked out by T. Dyer, Classical Museum for 1847, p. 229 sqq.
[69] See under ‘Juvenal,’ [p. 323].
[70] Pollio accused him of Patavinitas, i.e. the use of provincialisms (verba peregrina, as opposed to Latina, Quint. i. 5, 55, curiose loqui rather than Latine, Quint. viii. 1, 2).
[71] By A. Diepenbrock, L. Annaeus Seneca, p. 12 (Amsterdam, 1888).
[72] The praenomen ‘Gaius’ is rendered highly probable by the reading of the editio princeps and by an inscription found in Africa (C.I.L. viii. 10311).
[73] Les Poètes Latins de la Décadence, vol. i., p. 8.
[74] Antwerp edition, p. 89.