FOOTNOTES:
1. One of the great speeches in this play was probably made use of by Livy in his account of the address of Paulus to the people after his triumph in 167 B.C., which has again been turned into noble tragic verse by Fitzgerald, Literary Remains, vol. ii. p. 483.
2. The repetition of this word from the lovely lyric, Ille mi par esse, where it occurs in the same place of the verse, is a stroke of subtle and daring art.
3. The subject was a quite usual one among the Alexandrian poets whom Catullus read and imitated. Cf. Anthologia Palatina, vi. 51, 217-220.
4. Confess., III. iv.
5. Historia scribitur ad narrandum non ad probandum: Inst. Or., X. i. 31.
6. Confess., I. xiii.
7. Supra, p. 68.
8. Supra, p. 48.
9. These are the two parts of what the MSS. and the older editions give as Book ii. The division was made, on somewhat inconclusive grounds, by Lachmann.