508 Additional Notes. 



modated the writer, might place his friends and freedmen on the 

 back seats, with directions to be liberal in their applause. 



Et si dulcedine famae 



Succensus recites, Maculonus commodat aedes. 

 Scit dare libertos extrema in parte sedentes 

 Ordinis, et magnas comitum disponere voces. 

 Nemo dabit regum, quanti subsellia constent. 



Sat. vii. ver. 39. 



In another place, speaking of Statius, a popular poet, he 

 says: 



Curritur ad vocem jucundam, et carmen arnicas 

 Thebaidos, lxtam fecit cum Statius urbem, 

 Promisitque diem ; tanta dulcedine captos 

 Afficit ille animos, tantaque libidine vulgi 

 Auditur ; sed cum fregit subsellia versu, 

 Esurit, intactam Paridi nisi vendat Agaven. 



Sat. vii. ver. 82. 



From a passage in Horace it would seem that, in his day, 

 writers of the first class disdained to employ this method of 

 obtaining literary fame. 



Kon recito cuiquam, nisi amicis, idque coactus ; 

 Nori ubivis, coramve quibuslibet. In medio qui 

 Scripta foro recitent, sunt multi ; quique lavantes ; 

 Suave locus voci resonat conclusus. Inanes 

 Hocjuvat, haud illud quserentes, num sine sensu, 

 "Tempore num faciant alieno. 



Sat. lib. i. Sat. iv. ver. 73. 



Influence of Printing, p. 418. 



The following remarks of Professor Stewart, on the pro- 

 bable influence of printing upon the future interests of society, 

 •are worthy of attention. Whatever may be thought of the 

 truth or falsehood of the opinions which they express, they 

 afford to the contemplative mind materials for very interesting 

 reflections. 



" The influence which printing is likely to have on the fu- 

 ture history of the world, has not', I think, been hitherto ex- 

 amined, by philosophers, with the attention which the im- 

 portance of the subject deserves. One reason for this may, 

 probably, have been, that, as the invention has never been 

 made but once, it has been considered rather as the effect of a 

 fortunate accident, than as the result of those general causes 

 on which the progress of society seems to depend. But it 



