[ [319] Casaubon expresly says, that Horace imitated Lucilius; his Point was not to prove that Lucilius's Satires were of a different Kind from Horace's, but from Ennius's. Mons. Dacier, on the contrary, maintains, that the Satires of Horace, Lucilius, and Ennius, were all of the same Species. And yet, I think, very hardly reconciles his Opinion with Antiquity. He produces Quintilian: Alterum illud & prius Satiræ GENUS, quod non solum Carminum varietate mistum condidit Terentius Varro. Quintilian, says he, did not suppose that Varro liv'd before Lucilius: What then? why he imitated Ennius's Satire, which was alterum & prius GENUS, a different and prior Kind to that of Lucilius.
[ [320] Lucilius made use, in the same Poem, of different Sort of Verses: Ennius of different Sort of Verses, but not in the same Poem: Varro, of Prose and Verse together: Horace kept to one Metre throughout his Satires.
[ [321] Sat. X. 347.
[ [322] ℣ 363.
[ [323] Sat. II. 61.
[ [324] He says no more than Quintilian, l. x. as cited before, Satira quidem tota nostra est; and even Horace, Græcis intactum Carmen.
[ [325] De Orig. & Progr. Satiræ Rom.
[ [326] Hist. Poet. L. II. c. ix. p. 41.
[ [327] ℣ 225.
[ [328] Instit. Poet. Lib. III. c. 9, 41.