[345]. V. the only remaining fragment in Baehrens, Poet. Lat. Min., vi. 370. The satirical piece, usually printed with Juvenal and assigned to a Sulpicia, may be hers: but at any rate Martial was not thinking of anything of the kind. He varies his own conceit in vii. 69 on a certain Theophila.
[346]. It ought, however, perhaps to be added that these include a considerable batch of inscription-distichs for presents of books from Homer and Virgil downwards. Most of these are decorative but conventional: that on Lucan (194), “There are those who say that I am not a poet; but my bookseller thinks me one,” is keen with a double edge.
[347]. Non Hispaniensem sed Hispanum.
[348]. No one of his contemporaries, except Juvenal (v. supra, p. [255]), ever does mention Statius. It is indeed usually said that no classical author does so, with the same exception.
[349]. P. 216.
[350]. Et docti furor arduus Lucreti. Genethliacon Lucani, Sylv., ii. 7. 76.
[351]. It did not seem necessary to specify editions of Persius, Juvenal, and Martial. For Pliny I use that of Keil, Leipsic, 1886.
[352]. I. vi. Ed. cit., p. 5.
[353]. III. 21, p. 65.