![]() ![]() P401 after he had lived for a time with that part of his body as it were prematurely dead.Īfter this the science constantly grew in favour and popularity, so much so that even the most eminent men did not hesitate to make contributions to it, while at times there are said to have been more than twenty well-attended schools in the city. Unable to endure the pain, he applied a poisonous drug to his feet, which finally killed him, Servius stole one of his father-in‑law's books before it was published, and being in consequence disowned, left the city through shame and remorse, and fell ill of the gout. ![]() At a later time Quintus Vargunteius took up the "Annals" of Ennius, which he expounded on set days to large audiences and Laelius Archelaus and Vettius Philocomus the satires of their friend Lucilius, which Lenaeus Pompeius prides himself on having read with Archelaus, and Valerius Cato with Philocomus.ģ 1 1 The foundations of the study were laid, and it was advanced in all directions, by Lucius Aelius of Lanuvium and his son-in‑law Servius Clodius, both of whom were Roman knights and men of wide and varied experience in scholarship and statecraft.Īelius had two surnames, for he was called Praeconinus because his father had followed the occupation of a crier, 3 and Stilo 4 because he used to write speeches for all the great men of the day and he was so devoted to the aristocratic party, that he accompanied Metellus Numidicus into exile. For example, Gaius Octavius Lampadio thus treated the "Punic War" of Naevius, which was originally written in a single volume without a break, but was divided by Lampadio into seven books. Their imitation, however, was confined to a careful criticism of poems which had as yet but little circulation, either those of deceased friends or others that met with their approval, and to making them known to the public by reading and commenting on them. P399 constantly gave instruction, and thus set an example for our countrymen to imitate. He was sent to the senate by king Attalus between the second and third Punic wars, at about the time when Ennius died and having fallen into the opening of a sewer in the Palatine quarter and broken his leg, he held numerous and frequent conferences during the whole time both of his embassy and of his convalescence, at which he For while some tell us that this same Ennius published a book "On Letters and Syllables" and another "On Metres," Lucius Cotta is right in maintaining that these were not the work of the poet, but of a later Ennius, who is also the author of the volumes "On the Science of Augury."Ģ 1 1 In my opinion then, the first to introduce the study of grammar into our city was Crates of Mallos, a contemporary of Aristarchus. The beginnings of the subject, too, were humble, for the earliest teachers, who were also both poets and Italian 2 Greeks (I refer to Livius and Ennius, who gave instruction in both tongues at home and abroad, as is well known), did no more than interpret the Greeks or give readings from whatever they themselves had composed in the Latin language. 1 1 1 The study of Grammar was not even pursued at Rome in early days, still less held in any esteem and naturally enough, since the state was then still uncultivated and given to war, and had as yet little leisure for liberal pursuits.
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