HoRAT. Serm. I. 10 (1-8). 43 



was probably alive several years later." C Fr. Hermann 

 ascribed them to Fannius. Lucian Mtiller, in his edition 

 of Lucilius, 1872, says they were undoubtedly composed in 

 the time of Horace, thoujj^h their authorship is uncertain. 

 These three scholars insisted on taking 'emendare parat' 

 literally. 



Schtitz says that the writer of the fifth verse appar- 

 ently knew not only Epod.4, 3, 'Hibericis peruste funibus' 

 and 4, 11, 'sectus flagellis . . . praeconis ad fastidium,' but 

 also Epp, II. 1, 70, 'plagosum . . . Orbilium, etc' This 

 epistle is assigned by Valilen to B. C. 14, so that these 

 verses could not have been written by Fannius or by 

 Furius Bibaculus. He would put the composition of the 

 fragment as late at least as the beginning of the second 

 century A. D. Just as Tacitus" says that there are men 

 in his day who prefer Lucilius to Horace, and Quintilian" 

 insists that Horace's criticism is unfair, so the unknown 

 writer of these lines objects to Horace's treatment of his 

 own model, appealing to the authority of Cato, who was of 

 course not satisfied with the work of Lucilius as he found 

 it, but still thought it worth revising.*' The third verse, 

 Schutz maintains, is not necessarily older than Sueton. 

 De Gramm. 2. The writer may have known Suetonius' 

 account of Cato and yet made him an editor not merely a 

 student of Cato in his younger days, either by mistake or 

 because he knew or thought he knew better. 



Orelli remarks that the passage has 'antiquum colorem,' 

 and assigns it to the time of Fronto. Keller would put it 

 as late as Ausonius (circ. 350 A. D.), hinting at Tetra- 

 dius who is addressed in Auson. Ep. 15, 9, as rivalling 

 Lucilius.''® 



F. Marx, whose beautiful emendation of these lines is 

 often referred to in this paper, says that they are impor- 

 tant for the history of grammar at Rome and for our 



♦2' vixit ad oxtromam senectutem.' 

 ^Dial. de Oral. 23. 

 **Inst. Or.X. 1,93. 



^It would bo hard to show that Horace's estimate of Lucilius was auy lower 

 than this. 



**' rudes Camenas qui Suessae praevenis aovoque cedis, non stilo.' 



