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It seems almost certain that these three words were in- 

 serted on account of the abrupt opening, 'Nempe etc.'*" 

 The preceding lines were probably written with the text 

 of Sat. I. 10 on account of the similarity of subject, and 

 some later scribe, mistaking them for the introduction to 

 this satire, would add the words ' ut redeam illuc' to serve 

 as a bridge to the lively opening ' Nempe incomposito dixi 

 etc.,' though, as Schiitz remarks, they would serve better to 

 connect the verses with verse 2, 'quis tam Lucili fautor 

 inepte est?' The long introduction to Sat. I. 7 (followed by 

 'ad Eegem redeo,' vs. 9) may have suggested the expletive 

 words that were felt necessary. Keller and Holder cite as 

 similar interpolations the four lines once prefixed to the 

 Aeneid and the ten lines at the beginning of Hesiod's 

 Works and Days. It is incontestable, they add, that the 

 satire is complete without these eight verses, and that 

 nothing is wanting at the beginning. On the contrary, 

 the fact that Persius, the deliberate imitator of Horace, 

 begins one of his satires (the third) with 'nempe' speaks 

 for the genuineness of the introductory 'nempe' here. 



The external evidence that these eight verses are an 

 interpolation to Sat. I. 10 is given in the first paragraph 

 of this paper; a careful examination of them can only re- 

 sult in the conclusion that they are not the work of Horace 

 at all. They have been assigned to different writers and 

 to different periods. 



Kirchner ascribed them to Furius Bibaculus (circ. 700 

 A. U. C), arguing from Sueton. De Gramm. 11, that Valerius 

 Cato, if still alive when Horace wrote this satire (A. U. C. 

 720), must have been over seventy years old, too old to be 

 contemplating a revision of Lucilius. This argument was 

 soon afterwards disposed of by Schmid," who proved from 

 the same section of Suetonius that Cato could not have 

 been more than sixty-two years old in A. U. C. 720, and 



« ' Scil. ut transitus ad Horatium sit.' Baehrens, Fragm. Poet. Roman., 1886, p. 329. 

 «P/u7oJ.XI. p. 54. 



