more valuable as far as it goes: Paulus occasionally substituting the views of Festus for those of Flaccus without remark. Thus, we read in the fragment, Sas Verrius putat significare eas...cum suas magis uideatur significare. Paulus, who quotes the same authority for the meaning (a passage of Ennius), writes at once sas suas. on the next word, sam, he retains the error 'philosophiam,' though he omits the words 'sapientia quae perhibetur,' which point to the right reading:—
- nec quisquam sophiam sapientia quae perhibetur
- in somnis uidit prius quam sam discere coepit.
From these and similar instances one would conclude that Paulus represents Festus pretty faithfully, and when he misrepresents him does so only by way of omission. As to Festus himself, and frequent 'Verrius putat' of the fragment certainly shews a conscientious reproduction of the original even when the epitomizer does not agree with it. I have used the edition of Müller.
Varro (M. Terentius) a Pompeian, after the battle of Pharsalus taken into favour by Caesar, and devoting his life thenceforth to laborious study. See Cicero, Ep. ad fam. 9. 6. ad Atticum, 13. 12. His proscription and escape from it, under the second triumvirate, as well as the voluminousness of his works, appear from a quotation by Aulus Gellius, Noctes, Atticae, 3. 10. in which Varro mentions his having a attained a hebdomad of years and written seventy hebdomads of books, many of which had disappeared on the pillage of his library after he was proscribed. It is the extent part of his treatise de lingua Latina, which is most cited in the present work. Whether this treatise was sent (dedicated) to Cicero, and therefore completed before 711 V.C., is not certain, though Müller apparently thinks it probable. See Praefatio ed. 1833. I have used his edition.
Aulus Gellius, the author of the well-know Attic Nights, was when young a pupil of Fronto (who was Consul Suffectus A.V.C. 896 in the reign of Antoninus Pius) N. A. 19. 8. He is supposed to have died before 917 V. C. Many valuable records of legal antiquity are to be found in his work, particularly in the last (20th) book.
Servius Maurus Honoratus, the Commentator on Virgil, is introduced by Macrobius (Sat. 1. 2. 15) as an interlocutor with Symmachus, Consul under Theodosius and Valentinian, A.V. 1144, and the well-known champion of the old religion against Ambrose. In the gathering of Savens which forms the subject of the Saturnalia, Vettius Praetextatus is the first host, who would appear from an inscription to have died A.V.C. 1140. Servius
