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His Silvae, which are trifles, but very charming ones, were most of them written within twenty- four hours after their subjects had been suggested to him.
The defamer of Senorita Cisneros is but another Don Matthias de Silvae of Le Sage. . . . The coon seems to be forging rapidly to the front in some portions of this country. On October 2, Mrs. W. E. D. Stokes, a wealthy white woman and owner of one of the largest stock farms in Kentucky, gave a ball and banquet near Lexington to 300 colored people and filled 'em full of beer. Whether Mrs.
"It will suit my mood to-night." Waymark took down his Virgil. "Sed neque Medorum silvae, ditissima terra, Nec pulcher Ganges atque auro turbibus Hermus Laudibus Italiae certent, non Bactra, neque Indi, Totaque turiferis Panchaia pinguis arenis." Julian's eyes glistened as the melody rolled on, and when it ceased, both were quiet for a time.
The Silvae were for the most part read or recited in public. We saw in a former chapter that Asinius Pollio first introduced these readings. His object in doing so is uncertain. It may have been to solace himself for the loss of a political career, or it may have been a device for ascertaining the value of new works before granting them a place in his public library.
The Silvae of Statius and the letters of Pliny imply that there was a very active and generally diffused interest in science and letters; but it is easy to be somebody where no one is great. Among grammarians AEMILIUS ASPER deserves notice. He seems to have been living while Suetonius composed his biography of grammarians, since he is not included in it.
I had only time to reperuse with care the Silvae of Statius his Epicedion being appropriate to my mood. Arrived at Portus, I sent a post to those who awaited the ship's coming, and the remains of Maximus were brought with all due honour to their resting place. 'Was the deacon Leander here to receive you? asked Basil. 'I learnt that he had not yet been heard of.
The Silvae, consisting as they do of comparatively short pieces, display the excellences of Statius to greater advantage. Of the thirty- two poems, six are in lyric metres, the rest being all written in the smooth graceful hexameters of which the author of the Thebaid was so accomplished a master. The subjects, for the most part of a familiar nature, are very various.
"Sentinam urbis," a worse word than he had blamed in Rullus three years before. To Atticus, i. 19. "Pompeium adduxi in eam voluntatem, ut in Senatu non semel, sed saepe, multisque verbis, hujus mihi salutem imperii atque orbis terrarum adjudicarit." ib. To Atticus, ii. 1, abridged. Silvae Callesque to which "woods and forests" is a near equivalent.
Altius atque cadant summotis nubibus imbres; Incipiant silvae cum primum surgere, cumque Rara per ignaros errent animalia montis. The myths that follow are meant to continue this list of subjects, only with somewhat less blunt obviousness.
It is said that he was twelve years employed in the composition of this poem; and we have his own authority for affirming, that he polished it with all the care and assiduity practised by the poets in the Augustan age: Quippe, te fido monitore, nostra Thebais, multa cruciata lima, Tentat audaci fide Mantuanae Gaudia famae. Silvae, lib. iv. 7.
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