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citationibus afTui, non auditor fuisse, sed creditor. Nam, ut 

 in cateris rebus, ita in audiendi officio, perit gratia, si repos- 

 catur." — PUn. lib. i, Ep. 13. 



The poets who could not obtain an audience otherwise, 

 frequented the baths, and other public places, in order to 

 fasten on their friends, and procure an opportunity of reciting 

 their compositions. Juvenal tells us, that the groves and 

 marble columns of Julius Fronto resounded with the vocife- 

 rations of the reciting poets. 



Frontonis platani, convulsaque marmora clamant 

 Semper, et assiduo rupta; lectore columnae. 

 Expectes eadem a summo, minimoque poeta. 



Sat, i, ver. 12. 



The same satirist suggests, that the poet who wished his 

 works to become known, might borrow a house for the pur- 

 pose of public reading ; and that the person who atcoinino- 

 dated the writer, might place his friends and freedmen on i.\v- 

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



Et si dulcedine famse 



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, v^r. 5 P. 



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

 says : 



Curritur ad vocem jucundam, et carmen amicse 

 Thebaidos, laetam fecit cum Statius urbem, 

 Promisitque diem; tanta dulcedine captos 

 Aflicit ille animos, tantaque libidine vulgi ,., 



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