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He must have read a famous line in Horace thus, "Eheu fugaces Posthoome, Posthoome!" which could scarce 'scape whipping, even at Stratford Free School. In the same way he makes the penultimate syllable of Andronicus short, equally impossible. Mr. A scholar would have corrected, not accepted, false quantities. This, at least, would not be ignorance.
For if this be granted me, which is a most probable supposition, it is easy to infer that the first light which was given to the Roman theatrical satire was from the plays of Livius Andronicus, which will be more manifestly discovered when I come to speak of Ennius. In the meantime I will return to Dacier.
The feminine world preponderates also in the fragments. III. XIV. Livius Andronicus III. XIV. Audience We subjoin, for comparison, the opening lines of the -Medea- in the original of Euripides and in the version of Ennius:
We have seen that Livius Andronicus was selected to celebrate the victory of Sena, and there is an ode of Catullus which seems to refer to some similar occasion. Doubtless the main lines in which the composition moved were indicated by custom; but the treatment was left to the individual genius of the poet. In this case we observe the poet's happy choice of a metre.
Such traits are not in a historical point of view matters of difference; we recognize in them the stage of intellectual culture which irked these earliest Roman verse-making schoolmasters, and we at the same time perceive that, although Andronicus was born in Tarentum, Greek cannot have been properly his mother-tongue. III. XI. Separation of Orders in the Theatre
The sultan of Colonia afforded a hospitable retreat to Andronicus, his mistress, and his band of outlaws: the debt of gratitude was paid by frequent inroads in the Roman province of Trebizond; and he seldom returned without an ample harvest of spoil and of Christian captives.
A few other Roman writers of prominence claim our attention. With some reason the Romans looked upon Ennius as the father of their literature. He, like Andronicus, was a native of Magna Græcia, claiming lordly ancestors, and boasting that the spirit of Homer, after passing through many mortal bodies, had entered his own.
But the downfall of his race and of the Grecian dynasty was approaching. At his decease , there were five princes of the imperial house; but the death of Andronicus, and the monastic profession of Isidore, had reduced them to three Constantine, Demetrius, and Thomas.
In rebus tam antiquis si quae similia veri sint pro veris accipiantur is the easy canon which he lays down for early and uncertain events. Even when original documents of great value were extant, he refrains from citing them if they do not satisfy his taste. During the second Punic war a hymn to Juno had been written by Livius Andronicus for a propitiatory festival.
That the Romans had farces before this, it is true; but then they had no communication with Greece; so that Andronicus was the first who wrote after the manner of the old comedy, in his plays: he was imitated by Ennius about thirty years afterwards.
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