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Then comes the following curious and not very intelligible "Advertisement:" Lieut. CIBBER'S Life, and likewise be placed among the Poetae minores Dramatici of the Present Age: Then will both his Name and Writings be remembered on Record, in the immortal Poetical Register written by Mr.
XXVIII. Poetae Latini Minores: recensuit Aemilius Baehrens. Ulpian, Tit., xx, 16. Gaius, ii, 112. See Ulpian, Tit., xi, 3, 4, and 24. Gaius, i, 185, and iii, 10. Ulpian, Tit., xi, 27. The power of the father was called potestas; that of the husband, manus. Aulus Gellius, x, 23. Cf. Suetonius, Tiberius, 35. Gaius, i, 144. Ulpian, Tit., xi, I. Ulpian, Tit., xi, 28a. Gaius, i, 194.
The seductive methods by which Alexandrinism had made it equally easy to enshrine in verse his morning reading or his evening's amour, proved too great an attraction for the young Roman votary of the muses. Rome already teemed with the class so pitilessly satirized by Horace and Juvenal, the "Saecli incommoda, pessimi poetae."
It appears in the well-known epitaph said to have been written by himself, also in the lines written against him by the family poet of the Metelli: 'malum dabunt Metelli Naevio poetae'. The name poeta was new in Naevius' time and was just displacing the old Latin name vates; see Munro on Lucr. 1, 102. PROVENIEBANT etc.: the same metre as above, divided thus by Lahmeyer:
Indeed we never knew what good prose he could write till the fragments called Anima Poetae were published, two-thirds of a century after his death. But that no collected edition of his letters appeared till very shortly before this is explicable without any difficulty.
Disjecta membra poetae, the artificial poesy, so much admired by those for whom it is conceived and elaborated, the fragments of a pretty woman, litter every corner of the room.
Rhetorical Elements in Italian Renaissance Conceptions of the Purpose of Poetry In his study of the function of poetry in the literary criticism of the Italian renaissance, Spingarn has shown that the characteristic opinions reflect the ideas of Horace in his famous line, Aut prodesse volunt aut delectare poetae.
Johnson complained that no man could be properly inspired by the Pembroke "coll," or college beer, which was then commonly drunk by undergraduates, still guiltless of Rhine wines, and of collecting Chinese monsters. Carmina vis nostri scribant meliora poetae Ingenium jubeas purior baustus alat.
Alluding to Boswell's Life he continued, "Mine should have been, not the droppings of his lips, but the history of his mind." Field's Life of Parr, i. 164. In the epitaph that he first sent in were found the words 'Probabili Poetae. 'In arms, wrote Parr, 'were all the Johnsonians: Malone, Steevens, Sir W. Scott, Windham, and even Fox, all in arms. The epithet was cold.
Rhymed verse as such does not appear till later; the work of the novelli poetae, as they were called by the grammarians, partly took the form of reversion to the trochaic metres which were the natural cadence of the Latin language, partly of fresh experiments in hitherto untried metres, in both cases with a large employment of assonance, and the beginnings of an accentual as opposed to a quantitative treatment.
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