354 Additional Notes. 



Auditur ; sed cum fregit subsellla 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 tb employ this method of 

 obtaining literary fame. 



Non recito cuiquam, nisiamicis, idque coactus ; 

 Koii ubivis, coramve quibuslibet. In medio qui 

 Scripta foro recitent, sunt multi ; quique lavantes ; 

 Suave locus voci resonat conclusus. Inanes 

 Hoc juvatj haud illud quaerentes, num sine sensu. 

 Tempore num faciant alieno. 



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



Note (3,), page 295. — The following remarks of professor 

 Stewart, on the probable 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 tl?e progress of society seems to depend. But it 

 may be reasonably questioned} how far this idea be just: for, 

 although it should be allowed that the invention of printing 

 was accidental, with respect to the individual who made it, it 

 may with truth be considered as the natural result of a state 

 of the world, when a number of great and contiguous nations 



