‘O Tite tute Tati tibi tanta tiranne tulisti’;
l. 452,
‘At tuba terribili sonitu taratantara dixit.’
(10) Non-elision; l. 275,
‘Miscent inter sese inimicitiam agitantes.’
Influence of Ennius.—This is seen in Lucretius, and to a very great extent in Virgil. For Lucretius’ appreciation of Ennius see Lucr. i. 117-9. Cf. also Ann. l. 150,
‘Postquam lumina sis oculis bonus Ancus reliquit,’
and Lucr. iii. 1025,
‘Lumina sis oculis etiam bonus Ancus reliquit.’
Servius on Verg. Aen. viii. 630-4, says ‘Sane totus hic locus Ennianus est.’ Cf. Servius also on Aen. i. 20; xi. 608, etc. A large number of imitations are quoted by Macrobius, especially in Saturn. Book vi. Virgil modified and refined many of Ennius’ rough expressions. Thus Ann. l. 452 (above quoted), becomes, in Verg. Aen. ix. 503,