‘Nondum etiam, qui haec omnia habebit,
formonsus, dives, liber, rex solu’ feretur?’
iv. 4-6 (cf. Hor. Sat. ii. 2, 46-8),
‘O Publi, o gurges, Galloni: es homo miser, inquit,
cenasti in vita numquam bene, cum omnia in ista
consumis squilla atque acupensere cum in decimano.’
(2) Travels, as the account of the journey to the Sicilian Strait, imitated by Hor. Sat. i. 5.
(3) Literary criticism. Lucilius jeers at Ennius’ line,
‘Sparsis hastis longis campus splendet et horret,’
according to Servius ad Aen. xi. 601, ‘Est versus Ennianus vituperatus a Lucilio dicente per irrisionem eum debuisse dicere “horret et alget.”’ Euripides is criticised in xxix., frag. 9. Points of orthography and the like are also treated of, cf. ix. 11,
‘Iam puerei venere. E postremum facito atque i,
ut pueri plures fiant. I si faci’ solum,
pupilli, pueri, Lucili hoc uniu’ fiet.’[23]
Some other points may be noted:
(1) He addresses a large circle of readers, xxix. 99,