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17. The attention given to the acoustic arrangements of the Greeks may be inferred from Vitruv. v. 5, 8. Ritschl (Parerg. i. 227, xx.) has discussed the question of the seats; but it is probable (according to Plautus, Capt. prol. 11) that those only who were not capite censi had a claim to a seat. It is probable, moreover, that the words of Horace that "captive Greece led captive her conqueror" primarily refer to these epoch-making theatrical games of Mummius (Tac. A
18. The scenery of Pulcher must have been regularly painted, since the birds are said to have attempted to perch on the tiles (Plin. H. N. xxxv. 4, 23; Val. Max. ii. 4, 6). Hitherto the machinery for thunder had consisted in the shaking of nails and stones in a copper kettle; Pulcher first produced a better thunder by rolling stones, which was thenceforth named "Claudian thunder" (Festus, v. Claudiana, p. 57).
19. Among the few minor poems preserved from this epoch there occurs the following epigram on this illustrious actor: Constiteram, exorientem Auroram forte salutans, Cum subito a laeva Roscius exoritur. Pace mihi liceat, coelestes, dicere vestra; Mortalis visust pulchrior esse deo.
The author of this epigram, Greek in its tone and inspired by Greek enthusiasm for art, was no less a man than the conqueror of the Cimbri, Quintus Lutatius Catulus, consul in 652.
20. IV. XII. Course of Literature and Rhetoric.
21. Quam lepide - legeis - compostae ut tesserulae omnes Arte pavimento atque emblemate vermiculato.
22. The poet advises him
23. IV. III. Its Suspension by Scipio Aemilianus.
24. The following longer fragment is a characteristic specimen of the style and metrical treatment, the loose structure of which ca
25. IV. XIII. Dramatic Arrangements, second note.
26. III. X. Measures of Security in Greece.
27. IV. I. Greece.
28. Such scientific travels were, however, nothing uncommon among the Greeks of this period. Thus in Plautus (Men. 248, comp. 235) one who has navigated the whole Mediterranean asks - Quin nos hinc domum Redimus, nisi si historiam scripturi sumus?
29. III. XIV. National Opposition.
30. The only real exception, so far as we know, is the Greek history of Gnaeus Aufidius, who flourished in Cicero's boyhood (Tusc, v. 38, 112), that is, about 660. The Greek memoirs of Publius Rutilius Rufus (consul in 649) are hardly to be regarded as an exception, since their author wrote them in exile at Smyrna.
31. IV. XI. Hellenism and Its Results.
32. IV. XII. Education.
33. IV. XII. Latin Instruction.
34. The assertion, for instance, that the quaestors were nominated in the regal period by the burgesses, not by the king, is as certainly erroneous as it bears on its face the impress of a partisan character.
35. IV. XII. Course of Literature and Rhetoric.
36. IV. XII. Course of Literature and Rhetoric.
37. IV. XII. Course of Literature and Rhetoric.
38. IV. X. Permanent and Special Quaestiones.
39. Cato's book probably bore the title De iuris disciplina (Gell. xiii. 20), that of Brutus the title De iure civili (Cic. pro Cluent. 51, 141; De Orat. ii. 55, 223); that they were essentially collections of opinions, is shown by Cicero (De Orat. ii. 33, 142).
40. IV. VI. Collision between the Senate and Equites in the Administration of the Provinces, pp. 84, 205.
41. IV. XII. Roman Stoa f.
42. IV. XI. Buildings.