Chapter M: Livius Drusus (4)

[109] The contradiction of this passage with that in vol. I. p. 469, in which Clitarchus is termed an _elegant_ writer, seems to be accounted for by supposing that the expression “elegant” is in that place one of disparagement, referring to Longin. c. 3 who calls him φλοιώδης καὶ φυσῶν. Of Sisenna, Cicero says in _Brutus_ 64, _Hujus omnis facultas ex historia ipsius perspici potest, quæ, cum facile vincat omnes superiores, tum indicat tamen, quantum absit a summo, quamque hoc genus scriptionis nondum sit satis Latinis literis illustratum_; and _de Legg._ 1, 2.--_in historia puerile quoddam consectatur, ut unum Clitarchum, neque præterea quemquam de Græcis legisse videatur_; so that Niebuhr calls this _puerile_, this affected mannerism, the _horridum_, inasmuch as it so greatly _a summo abest_.--Germ. Ed.

[110] See note in p. 292.

[111] See Biographical Notices of (_Lebensnachrichten über_) B. G. Niebuhr II, p. 402.--Germ. Edit.

[112] A direct mention of the place is hardly to be found in Cicero; but in a general way he commends the Sabines as _severissimi homines_, _in Vatin._ 15, _ad Famil._ XV, 20.--Germ. Ed.

[113] Perhaps more correctly, Julius Salinator. Plutarch Sertor. c. 7.--Germ. Edit.

[114] _Histor._ III. in _Servius ad Virg._ Æn. I. 698.--Germ. Ed.

[115] It has been said that all the Roman gentile names, ended in _-ius_; but in names like Cæcina, Vibena, Porsena, and others, the termination _-na_ remained, even after the clan had become Roman citizens. Ernesti, who had not perceived this, mistook Cæcina for a _cognomen_, and sought for the name of the clan; but the inscriptions confirm the fact of its being a gentile name.

[116] With the death of Sertorius, the lectures of 1826-7 are brought to a conclusion.--Germ. Ed.

[117] More correctly, _five_.--Germ. Ed.

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