native of Leptis, in Africa, and lived at Rome in the time of
Nero, by whom he was banished.]

[Footnote 956: Caesius Bassus, a lyric poet, flourished during the reigns
of Nero and Galba. Persius dedicated his sixth Satire to him.]

[Footnote 957: "Numanus." It should be Servilius Nonianus, who is
mentioned by Pliny, xxviii. 2, and xxxvii. 6.]

[Footnote 958: Commentators are not agreed about these sums, the text
varying both in the manuscripts and editions.]

[Footnote 959: See Dr. Thomson's remarks on Persius, before, p. 398.]

[Footnote 960: There is no appearance of any want of finish in the sixth
Satire of Persius, as it has come down to us; but it has been conjectured
that it was followed by another, which was left imperfect.]

[Footnote 961: There were two Arrias, mother and daughter, Tacit. Annal.
xvi. 34. 3.]

[Footnote 962: Persius died about nine days before he completed his
twenty-ninth year.]

[Footnote 963: Venusium stood on the confines of the Apulian, Lucanian,
and Samnite territories.

Sequor hunc, Lucanus an Appulus anceps;
Nam Venusinus arat finem sub utrumque colonus.
Hor Sat. xi. 1. 34.] [Footnote 964: Sat. i. 6. 45.]

[Footnote 965: Horace mentions his being in this battle, and does not
scruple to admit that he made rather a precipitate retreat, "relicta non
bene parmula."--Ode xi. 7-9.]

[Footnote 966: See Ode xi. 7. 1.]

[Footnote 967: The editors of Suetonius give different versions of this
epigram. It seems to allude to some passing occurrence, and in its present
form the sense is to this effect: "If I love you not, Horace, to my very
heart's core, may you see the priest of the college of Titus leaner than
his mule."]

[Footnote 968: Probably the Septimius to whom Horace addressed the ode
beginning

Septimi, Gades aditure mecum.--Ode xl. b. i.]

[Footnote 969: See AUGUSTUS, c. xxi.; and Horace, Ode iv, 4.]

[Footnote 970: See Epist. i. iv. xv.

Me pinguem et nitidum bene curata cute vises.]

[Footnote 971: It is satisfactory to find that the best commentators
consider the words between brackets as an interpolation in the work of
Suetonius. Some, including Bentley, reject the preceding sentence also.]

[Footnote 972: The works of Horace abound with references to his Sabine
farm which must be familiar to many readers. Some remains are still
shewn, consisting of a ruined wall and a tesselated pavement in a
vineyard, about eight miles f