Chapter 6

like him, belonging to the Alexandrian school.

_Lucilius_, the first of Rome's great satirists (148-103 B.C.), famous for the extraordinary vigour with which he lashed the vices of the age. The allusion in the present passage is unknown, though a fragment is preserved containing the name of Macedo and possibly also of Gentius (cp. Baehrens, Fragm. Poet. Rom., p. 168).

_the Mantuan poet._ Vergil, Ecl. ii.

_Serranus_, the cognomen of Atilius Regulus, consul 257 B.C., the famous Regulus of the first Punic war.

_Curius_ Dentatus, thrice consul, and victor over the Samnites and Pyrrhus.

_Fabricius_, general in the war against Pyrrhus. Consul in 282 and 278 B.C. These three great soldiers were selected as types of Roman virtue. Cp. Verg. Aen. vi. 485.

_Dion_, brother-in-law and son-in-law of Dionysius II, tyrant of Syracuse, the friend and pupil of Plato, and for a brief space tyrant of Syracuse.