A History of Roman Classical Literature.

by R. W. Browne

[972]. See Plin. H. N. xxxiv. 39, and Tac. Hist. iii. 72.

[973]. See i. 50; iv. 35; vi. 27.

[974]. Augustus, according to Tacitus, (Ann. iv. 3,) thought Livy so violent a Pompeian that he once forbade one of his grandsons to read his history.

[975]. Cic. Or. ii. 12; Quint. x. 2, 7; Serv. in Æn. i. 373.

[976]. See Arnold’s Hist. of Rome.

[977]. Lib. x. 38; iv. 7, 23.

[978]. Vesp. 8. See also Tac. Hist. iii. 71.

[979]. Or. i. 43.

[980]. Com. de Font. Hist. Liv.

[981]. Vide Niebuhr (Lect. on Rom. Lit. vii.,) who takes the opposite view.