[687]. Lib. ix. 4, 28.
[688]. The three passages quoted by Quintilian show a wanton awkwardness in arrangement almost inconceivable:—
Sole et Aurora rubent plurima
Inter sacra movit aqua fraxinos:
Ne exequias quidem unus inter miserrimos
Viderem meas.
The last of these he considers especially offensive, because he seems to be trifling with a melancholy subject.
[689]. Sen. Ep. 114.
[690]. Tac. Ann. i. 54.
[691]. Epp. iv. 14; vii. 4.