e iambic senarii, some trochaic septenarii.

Macrob. _Saturn._ ii. 7, 10, 'Publili sententiae feruntur lepidae et
ad communem usum adcommodatissimae.'

Cicero heard his and Laberius' plays in B.C. 46. See _ad Fam._ xii.
18, 2, quoted under 'Laberius,' p. 99.

Sen. _de tranquill._ 11, 8, 'Publilius, tragicis comicisque
vehementior ingeniis, quotiens mimicas ineptias et verba ad summam
caveam spectantia reliquit, inter multa alia cothurno, non tantum
sipario fortiora, et hoc ait,

"Cuivis potest accidere quod cuiquam potest."'

The lines are, like the above, proverbs of worldly wisdom, and seem to
have been used in schools.

Jerome _Ep. ad Laetam_, 107, 'Legi quondam in scholis puer,

"Aegre reprendas quod sinas consuescere."'

Footnotes to Chapter II

[25] Q. Hortensius Hortalus (B.C. 114-50), Cicero's rival as an
orator, and author of _Annales_ (Vell. ii. 16, 3), a _Rhetoric_
(Quint. ii. 1, 11), and love poems (Ovid _Tr._ ii. 441).

[26] According to _ad Att._ ii. 1, 3 (if genuine), Cicero intended to
publish speeches 9-11 in a collection of 'orationes consulares' ('Hoc
totum +soma+ curabo ut habeas').

[27] _R.H._ iv. 311 (note).

[28] Q. Asconius Pedianus (A.D. 3-88), probably a native of Padua,
author of a commentary on Cicero's speeches. The extant part is on
_Pro Cornelio de maiestate_, _In toga candida_, _In Pisonem_, _Pro
Scauro_, and _Pro Milone_. The commentary on the Verrines and Divinatio,
which deals almost exclusively with the language, is spurious: the true
Asconius confines himself to the subject-matter.

[29] The Epicurean philosophy was expounded in the writings of C.
Amafinius, Rabirius, and T. Catius, whose opinions and literary style
were alike distasteful to Cicero (_Ac._ i. 5; _ad. Fam._ xv. 19, 2).

[30] F. Ritschl, _Opuscula_, iii., p. 525.

[31] L. Schwabe, _Quaest. Catull._, p. 296. B. Schmidt, however (ed.
of Catullus, p. 57), thinks that the _Chronica_ are not referred to
here.

[32] A life of Lucretius has been recently discovered by J. Masson
(_Journal of Philology_, xxiii. 46), which was written by Girolamo
Borgia in 1502. It gives B.C. 95-51 as the poet's dates. Several new
points were supposed to lend it a claim to authority, such as the
statement that he was 'matre natus diu sterili.' This, however, has
been shown to rest on a wrong reading of Q. Serenus Sammonicus' _Liber
Medicinalis_, xxxii., in a passage dealing with the barrenness of
women, 'hoc poteri