Tacere ac fabulare tute noveris;'
also
'Ea libertas est quae pectus purum et firmum gestitat.'
[68] 'Egregie cordatus homo catus Aeliu' Sextus.'
[69] 'In idleness the mind knows not what it wants. This is now our case. We are neither now at home nor abroad. We go hither, back again to the place from which we came,—when we have reached it we desire to leave it again. Our mind is all astray—existence goes on outside of real life.'
[70] iii. 1059-67.
[71] 'But your superstitious prophets and impudent fortune-tellers, idle fellows, or madmen, or the victims of want, who cannot discern the path for themselves, yet point the way out to others, and ask a drachma from the very persons to whom they promise a fortune.'
[72] 'And there it is announced to Julianus that a certain public reader, an accomplished man, with a very well-trained and musical voice, read the Annals of Ennius publicly in the theatre. Let us go, says he, to hear this "Ennianista," whoever he is,—for by that name he chose to be called.'—Aulus Gellius, xviii. 5.
The following line of Martial (v. 10. 7) implies also his popularity under the Empire—
'Ennius est lectus, salvo tibi, Roma, Marone.'