Post-Augustan Poetry From Seneca to Juvenal

by Harold Edgeworth Butler

40. Juv. viii. 221; Serv. Verg. Georg. iii. 36, Aen. v. 370.

41. Dion. lxii. 29.

42. Dion. lxii. 18; Suet. Ner. 38; Tac. Ann. xv. 39. For fragments of his work see Baehrens, Poet. Rom. Fragm., p. 368.

43. Suet, Ner. 10, 21.

44. Philostr. vit. Apoll. iv. 39 [Greek: ad_on ta tou Ner_onos mel_e … ep_ege mel_e ta men ex Oresteias, ta d' ex Antigon_es, ta d' opothenoun t_on prag_odoumen_on aut_o kai _odas ekampten oposas Ner_on elugize te kai kak_os estrephen].

45. Suet. vita Lucani; see chapter on Lucan, p. 97.

46. See chapter on Lucan, p. 98.

47. Suet. Luc.; Tac. Ann. xv. 49.

48. Suet. Ner. 39.

49. It may be urged that the damage lies not in the loss of poetry suppressed by the Emperor, but in the generation of a type of court poetry, examples of which survive in their most repulsive form in the Silvae of Statius and the epigrams of Martial. The objection has its element of truth, but only affects a very small and comparatively unimportant portion of the poetry of the age.