38 Colorado College Studies. 



Schmid^ also read 'qui . . . piTerum . . . exhortatus,' re- 

 ferring ' qui' to Orbilius. 



W.Teuffel" refers 'puerum' to Scribonius Aphrodisius, 

 'qui' to Orbilius. To this also Scliutz objects that Scri- 

 bonius was 'Orbili servus atque discipulus,'"'' and that 

 'puerum' would not imply all this. He might more rea- 

 sonably have repeated his objection to Eeisig's explanation, 

 that the unmodified 'puerum' is too indefinite. 



These three interpretations are obviously based upon 

 the mention of the 'plagosus Orbilius,' Epp. II. 1, 70, and 

 they receive some support from the words ' grammaticorum 

 equitum doctissimus,' in verse 8. These words naturally 

 refer to the same person as the clause ' qui . . . puerum . . . 

 exhortatus,' and Orbilius might, at least ironically, be 

 called a knight."'* There is, however, no evidence that he 

 revised Lucilius' ' ill made verses,' or that he paid special 

 attention to them. 



(c) J. Becker"' thought that either Florus or Titius is 

 meant. Very little is known of these men except from 

 Horace, Epp. I. 3, and II. 2. Horace merely says that 

 Florus has ability enough to win distinction in oratory, 

 in law, or in poetry.'" Porphyrio says 'hie Florus [scriba] 

 fuit satirarum scriptor, cuius sunt electae ex Ennio, 

 Lucilio, Varrone.' Kiessling hints that the old commen- 

 tator inferred all this from Epp. I. 3, 21, 'quae circum- 

 volitas agilis thyma ? ' Whether right or not, Pori^hyrio 

 apparently means that Florus rewrote some of the poems 

 of these earlier authors, adapting them for the readers of 

 his own day. Even if this be accepted, it is hard to sup- 

 pose that Horace would refer to Florus in the language of 

 these eight lines, and yet address him fifteen years later 

 as a young man wdio had not written much."' Of Titius 

 still less is known. Horace asks Florus whether he is still 



21 Philol. XI. pp. 54-59. 



^Rhein. Mus. XXX. p. 622. 



23Sueton. De era?)tm. 19. I 



2<Sueton. De Gramm. 9, 'deinde in Macedonia corniculo, mox equo meruit.' 



25p;ii7oMV. p. 490. 



2«Epp. I. 3, 2^25. 



«Epp. I. 3, 22-25. 



