523. Silv. v. 3. 215.
524. Juv. vii. 82.
525. Silv. v. 3. 227. The subject of his prize recitation was the triumph of Domitian over the Germans and Dacians; i.e. after 89 A.D.
526. Praef. Silv. i. 'pro Thebaide quamvis me reliquerit timeo.' The first book of the Silvae was published in 92 A.D. For the time taken for its composition and the poet's anticipations of immortality see Th. xii. 811 sqq.
527. See previous note.
528. Silv. iii. 5. 28, v. 3. 232. The Agon Capitolinus was instituted in 86 A.D. The contests falling in Statius' lifetime are those of 86, 90, 94 A.D. As his failure is always mentioned after the Alban victory, 94 A.D. would seem the most probable date.
529. Rutilius Gallicus had just died when the first book was published; cp. Praef., bk. i. This took place in 92 A.D.; cp. C.I.L. v. 6988, vi. 1984. 8. Silv. iv. 1 celebrates Domitian's seventeenth consulate (95 A.D.).
530. See previous note.
531. Such at least is a legitimate inference from the fact that it is not mentioned before the fourth and fifth books of the Silvae; cp. iv. 4. 94, iv. 7. 23, v. 2. 163.
532. Written probably in 95 A.D. Statius promises such a work in Silv. iv. 4. 95. Four lines are quoted from it in G. Valla's scholia on Juv. iv. 94: