HoRAT. Serm. I. 10 (1-8). 41 



The long separation is decidedly a,u:ainst this, and, besides, 

 Cato could hardly be called an "eciues.' According to 

 Suetonius, Dc Gramni., 11, his social position was doubtful 

 in his manhood and he probably never had a knight's in- 

 come in his old age. To meet this last difficulty Kirchner 

 proposed to read "equidem' for 'equitum.' 



The reading 'doctissime' has been proposed, but this 

 is obviously suggested by the knowledge that Lucilius 

 was a knight, and the objectionable interval is only in- 

 creased. 



The words 'grammaticorum equitum' are especially 

 obscure. As they stand they would seem to imply a class 

 of knights who were grammarians, or of grammarians who 

 were knights,'" but such guilds are quite unknown. 



Doderlein punctuated with a comma after 'grammati- 

 corum.' As has been mentioned above, he considered 

 these eight verses the genuine introduction to Sat. I. 10, 

 so that in trying to avoid one difficulty he created another 

 almost as serious, by making Horace class himself among 

 the grammarians — 'fastidia nostra grammaticorum.'** 



Badius Ascensis thought Maecenas was the 'eques'; 

 another old scholar thought of Laberius. Orelli came to 

 the conclusion that the writer of these verses, whoever he 

 was, knew no more who the 'eques' was than we do. 



'Ut redeam illuc' Cp. Sat. 1. 1, 108, 'illuc, unde abii, 

 redeo,' and Nepos, Z)<"o».,4, 'sed illuc revertor'; Agesil. 4, 

 'sed illuc redeamus.' 



It is hard to find anything in the preceding lines to 

 which 'illuc' can well be referred. As Kriiger"" remarks, it 

 cannot refer to the promised proof that Lucilius is full of 

 faults, for this promise is not fulfilled, or to the proof of 

 his faults on Cato's evidence, for Horace does not return to 

 this at all. Voss and Francke made 'illuc' refer in a gen- 

 eral way to Sat. I. 4, or its subject. 



^ Like Juvenal, VIII. 49, nobilis indocti, ' a nobleman who is an ignoramus.' 

 ^Tbis is contrary to the sentiment of Epp. I. 19, 40, ' non ego . . . grammati- 

 cas ambire tribus et pulpita diRnor.' 



■'^ Drci .':!alirenfuer den Schulzwevk erkhtert, IS'iO, p. 17. 



