[1506]. Aust, op. cit., p. 15, note 1.
[1507]. See especially the speech of the consul Postumius in Livy 39. 15.
[1508]. See a paper by the author in Classical Review, vol. vii. p. 193 foll.
[1509]. Note for example the way in which Horace has contrived to introduce in combination the ideas of the fertility of crops and herbs, of marriage and the increase of population, of public morality and prosperity.
[1510]. It gives me pleasure to quote this passage from Roman Society in the last century of the Western Empire (p. 63) by my old friend Professor Dill.
[1511]. Aen. 5. 235.
[1512]. See Nettleship, Essays in Latin Literature, pp. 103, 104.
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