VI NOTES. 



and 219 (with a fine map by Kiepert) ; Wernsdorf, Poet* Lat. Mm. T. v. P. 

 i. p. 125. 



C 36 ) p. 22. Tac. Ann. ii. 23, 24 ; Hist. v. 6. The only fragment which, 

 we possess of the heroic poem in which Pedo Albinovanus, the friend of Ovid, 

 sung the exploits of Germanicus, which was preserved by the rhetor Seneca 

 (Suasor. i. p. 11, Bipont.), also describes the unfortunate navigation on the 

 Amisia (Ped. Albinov. Elegise, Amst. 1703, p. 172). Seneca considers this 

 description of the stormy sea more picturesque than any thing which the 

 Roman poets had produced; remarking, however, " Latini declamatores in 

 oceani descriptione non nimis viguerunt; nam aut tumide scripserunt aut 

 curiose." 



( 37 ) p. 22. Curt, in Alex. Magno, vi. 16 (see Droysen, Gesch. Alexanders 

 des Grossen, 1833, S. 265). In Lucius Annseus Seneca (Qusest. Natur. Lib. 

 iii. c. 27 30, p. 677 686, ed. Lips. 1741), we find a remarkable descrip- 

 tion of the destruction of mankind, once pure, but subsequently defiled by sin, 



by an almost universal deluge. " Cum fatalis dies diluvii venerit, bis 



peracto exitio generis humana exstinctisque pariter feris in quarum homines 

 ingenia transierant." Compare the description of chaotic terrestrial revolu- 

 tions in the Bhagavata-Purana, Book iii. c. 17 (Burnouf, T. i. p. 441). 



(3 s ) p. 23. Plin. Epist. ii. 17, v. 6, ix. 7 ; Plin. Hist. Nat. xii. 6 ; Hirt, 

 Gesch. der Baukunst bei den Alten, Bd. ii. S. 241, 291, and 376. The villa 

 Laurentina of the younger Pliny was situated near the present Torre di 

 Paterno, in the coast valley of La Palombara, east of Ostia (see Viaggio da 

 Ostia a la Villa di Plinio, 1802, p. 9 ; and Le Laurentin, par Haudelcourt, 

 1838, p. 62.) A deep feeling for nature breaks forth in the few lines written 

 by Pliny from Laurentinum to Minutius Fundanus : " Mecum tantum et cum 

 libellis loquor. Rectam sinceramque vitam! dulce otium honestumque! O 

 mare, o littus, verum secretumque (irovcreiov) ! quam multa invenitis, quam 

 multa dictatis !" (i. 9.) Hirt was persuaded that the beginning in Italy, 

 in the 15th and 16th centuries, of the artificial style of gardening, which has 

 long been termed the French style, and contrasted with the freer landscape 

 gardening of the English, is to be attributed to the desire of imitatmg what 

 the younger Pliny had described in his letters (Geschichte der Baukunst bei 

 den Alten, Th. ii. S. 366). 



C 39 ) p. 24. Plin. Epist. iii. 19 ; viii. 16. 



C 50 ) p. 24. Suet, in Julio Csesare, cap. 56. The lost poem of Cttsaf 

 (Iter.) described the journey to Spain, when he led his army to his last miK- 

 tary exploit from Rome to Cordova, by land, in twenty-four days, according 



