Æn. IV. 33.
"Sed tota in dulces consument ubera natos."
Geo. III. 178.)
Statius, doubtless, had both Lucretius and Virgil in his view, when he wrote,
"Rursus et ex illis soboles nova; grexque protervus
Nunc humeris irreptet avi, nunc agmine blando
Certatim placidæ concurrat ad oscula Pollæ."
Silv. III. i. 179.
"Again from them springs a new race; a forward little troop, which sometimes climb on the shoulders of their grandfather, and sometimes, in pleasing congress, run to catch a kiss from the gentle Polla."
Seneca, Thyest. I. 145., has another imitation: