[57] Fasti, iv, 204. The preceding phrase, pro magno teste vetustas creditur, certainly has an ironic ring. [↑]
[59] Cp. Boissier, i, 228–29. [↑]
[60] Georgics, ii, 490, 493. Diderot originated the idea that the first of these lines and the two which follow it in Virgil had reference to Lucretius. Grimm, Correspondance Littéraire, ed. 1829–30, vi, 21–25. It is acquiesced in by W. Warde Fowler, Social Life at Rome in the Age of Cicero, 1909, p. 327. Sellar (Roman Poets of the Augustan Age: Virgil, 1877. p. 201) is doubtful on the point. [↑]