QUOTATIONS 



SENECA is fond of illustrating his subject by passages from the 

 poets. His favourites are Virgil and Ovid, and only once does 

 he quote Lucretius, whose work was much more analogous to his 

 own. The quotations are apparently from memory and betray 

 occasional inaccuracies, as even the best memories will. 

 The following is a list of the references : 



Book I. Pref., 8 (p, 6). Virg. Aen. iv. 404. 



i. 4 (10). Virg. Aen. v. 528. 



iii. 4 (17). Ovid, Metamorp, vi. 65 7, 



v. 6 (25). Nero in an unknown poem: one or two 

 other tags of that versatile tyrant have been 

 preserved. 



vi. i (28). Virg. Georg. i. 380. i. 



xi. 2 (35). Virg. Georg. ii. 95. 6. 



xiv. 2 (38). Virg. Georg. i. 367. (cf. VII. xx. i). 



xvii. 5 (45). Virg. Eclog. ii. 25. 6. 

 Book II. i. 2 (51). Ovid, Metamorp. i. 55. 



xliv. i (91). Ovid, Metamorp. iii. 305-7. 



Book III. Pref., 3 (109). Origin unknown: a somewhat similar 

 sentiment occurs in Aetna, 24. 



i. i (114). Ovid, Metamorp. iii. 407. 



i. i (114). Virg. Aen. i. 245. 6. 



i. i (114). Lucilius, to whom the Q.N. was addressed. 

 If he was the author of Aetna, as seems not improb 

 able, he may have written other poems on Sicilian 

 topography. 



xx. 2 (133). Ovid, Metamorp. xv. 313. 4 (cf. Ibid. 

 xi. 3 sqq.). 



xx. 4 (134). Ovid, Metamorp. xv. 321. 



xx. 5 (134). Ovid, Metamorp. xv. 330. i. 



xxvi. 3 (142). Ovid, Metamorp. xv. 273-6. 



xxvi. 5 (142). Virg. Eclog. x. 4. 5. 



xxvii. 12 (147). Ovid, Metamorp. i. 292. 

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