Some of his fragments show the same sceptical tendencies that are prominent in Ennius. Pacuvius either improved his later style, or else confined its worst points to his tragedies, for nothing can be more classical and elegant than his epitaph, which is couched in diction as refined as that of Terence Adulescens, tametsi properas, te hoc saxum vocat Ut sese aspicias, delude quod scriptumst legas.
That Martial considered it a boy's book appropriate for vacation hours between school tasks is apparent from the inscription: Accipe facundi Culicem, studiose, Maronis, Ne nucibus positis, Arma virumque legas. Hist.
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