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knowledge of the fate of Lucilius' poems. The whole pass- 

 age, he insists, suggests the philologist and reviewer, who 

 prefers Cato's edition of Lucilins to his master's earlier 

 one. There is a vast difference between the points of view 

 of Horace and the author of these interpolated lines: the 

 former speaks of Lucilius himself and his works, the latter 

 of editors and editions. 



If it once be assumed that the words 'emendare parat' 

 do not necessarily imply that these lines were written in 

 Cato's lifetime, it is hard to say how late they may have 

 been composed. Whatever their age, it is quite impossible 

 to name their author. 



The fragment — and it is only a fragment, for the promise 

 in the first verse is not fulfilled — seems to have been trans- 

 ferred to this satire from some source rather than composed 

 as an introduction to it, to explain and complete it. Apart 

 from the fact that the general sentiment of the lines (so 

 far as this can be discovered) is not in accord with that of 

 the satire to which they are unnecessarily prefixed, it is 

 hard to see what Horace had to do with Cato's alleged re- 

 vision of Lucilius or with the savage treatment of the un- 

 fortunate youth referred to in verse 5. Keller and Holder 

 say that the 'Urhandschrift' of their third class of mss. 

 was older than Priscian, and so also this interpolation, 

 adding, however, that while Priscian quotes the spurious 

 lines prefixed to the Aeneid, these eight verses are not 

 mentioned by any of the ancient commentators. 



