A History of Roman Classical Literature.

by R. W. Browne

[1054]. Quint. I. O. ii. 7; x. 5.

[1055]. Quintilian (I. O. x. 96) pronounces the lyric poetry of Bassus inferior only to that of Horace; but only two lines of his poems are extant. He was destroyed by the same eruption in which Pliny the elder perished.

[1056]. Tac. Ann. xvi. 21.

[1057]. Sat. i. 12.

[1058]. Lib. x. 1.

[1059]. Trans. of Juv. and Pers. vol. i. p. lxvii. Introd.

[1060]. See Spect. No. 207.

[1061]. Sat. ii. 71.

[1062]. Sat. iii. 98.

[1063]. De Civ. Dei, v.