1064 ([return])
[ Poet of Cos.—Ver. 330. The poet Philetas. He flourished in the time of Philip and Alexander the Great. Anacreon was a lyric poet of Teios, and a great admirer of the juice of the grape.]
1065 ([return])
[ Or him, through whom.—Ver. 332. Some think that he means Menander, from whom Terence borrowed many of his scenes; he probably alludes to the Phormio of Terence, where the old men, Chremes and Demipho, are deceived by Geta, the cunning slave. See the Tristia, Book ii. 1. 359: and 69.]
1066 ([return])
[ Propertius.'—Ver. 333. See the Tristia, Book ii. 1. 465, and the Note.]
1067 ([return])
[ Tibullus.—Ver. 334. See the Amores, Book iii. EL ix.]