Note 16 — PREFACE.
William Dansey translation
Aristot. de Polit. L. i. c. v. plato de legibus l. vii. Xenophon. Cyropæd. L. i. c. v. l. viii. c. xii. respub. lacedæm. c. iii. cyneget. c. i. xii. xiii. Polybius Hist. L. xxxi. jul. pollux onomast. l. v. Præfat. Commodo.—Cicero de Nat. D. L. ii. de officiis l. i. horat. l. i. epist. xviii. virgil. æneid. l. vii. ix. Seneca de Provid. c. ii. plinii panegyr. traj. d.—justin. hist. epit. l. xxxvii. Symmach. Epist. L. v. Ep. 66.
It will be readily ceded that the amatory expostulation of Sulpitia to her dear Cherinthus,
Tibulli Eleg. L. iv. 3.
Sed procul abducit venandi devia cura O pereant sylvæ, deficiantque canes! Quis furor est, quæ mens, densos indagine colles Claudentem teneras lædere velle manus? Quidve juvat furtim latebras intrare ferarum, Candidaque hamatis crura notare rubis?
and the epistle of Ausonius to the ruralist Theon,
Ausonii Epist. iv. 39.
Sed tu parce feris venatibus, et fuge nota Crimina sylvarum: ne sis Cinyreïa proles, Accedasque iterùm Veneri plorandus Adonis;
are too jocular to place Tibullus and the poet of Bourdeaux on the side of the Catilinarian historian.