[194] Ep. viii. 6. 9 (Seeck).
[195] ‘Romanum denique eloquium non suis regionibus invenisti, et ibi te Tulliana lectio disertum reddidit ubi quondam Gallica lingua resonavit. Ubi sunt qui litteras Latinas Romae, non etiam alibi asserunt esse discendas? ... mittit et Liguria Tullios suos’, Variarum, viii. 12; Migne, Pan. Lat. lxix, p. 745.
[196] ‘Neque enim ignoro quanto inferiora nostra sint ingeniis Romanis. Siquidem Latine et diserte loqui illis ingeneratum est ... ex illo fonte et capite imitatio nostra derivat’, Pan. Lat. xii. 1. 2.
[197] As we gather from his references to the Rhine defences (§ 2).
[198] According to G. Baehrens.
[199] Cf. Freeman, Historical Essays, Ser. III, 119: ‘The panegyrist, at all events in addressing princes, some of whom were certainly very far from fools, is not likely to venture on much in the way of mere invention. He will leave out a great deal, he will exaggerate a great deal, he will pervert his own moral sense to praise a great deal that ought to be blamed: but the main facts which he asserts are pretty sure to have happened much as he states them. He is a fairly good authority for positive facts, bad for negative ones.’ Cf. Pichon, Études sur la Litt. lat. dans les Gaules, i. 74.
[200] Suet. Gram. 3.
[201] Ritter has pointed out that Maternus was a Gaul in his 1848 edition of Dialog., ch. 10.
[202] Suet. Gram. 7.
[203] Suet. Gram. 11 ‘peridoneus praeceptor maxime ad poeticam tendentibus’.