406. Tac. Ann. iv. 46; C.I.L. ii. 2093.

407. Dion. lix. 22; Tac. Ann. vi. 30.

408. Dion. loc. cit.; Suet. Claud. 9.

409. Plin Ep. v. 3. 5; Mart. i. praef.

410. Ap. Sid. Ep. ii. 10. 6.

411. v. 16; vi. 190, 331; vii. 71, 244, 245, 275, 354; xi. 409.

412. Baehrens, Poet. Rom. Fragm. p. 361.

413. Quint, x. 1.96 'at lyricorum Horatius fere solus legi dignus:… si quem adicere velis, is erit Caesius Bassus, quem nuper vidimus; sed eum longe praecedunt ingenia viventium'.

414. e.g. perhaps Martial, Sulpicia, and some of Pliny's poet friends, see pp. 170 sqq.

415. See p. 80.