Note 319 — LECTURE XVII, XVIII. Of Satire.

Casaubon expresly says, that Horace imitated Lucilius; his Point was not to prove that Lucilius's Satires were of a different Kind from Horace's, but from Ennius's. Mons. Dacier, on the contrary, maintains, that the Satires of Horace, Lucilius, and Ennius, were all of the same Species. And yet, I think, very hardly reconciles his Opinion with Antiquity. He produces Quintilian: Alterum illud & prius Satiræ GENUS, quod non solum Carminum varietate mistum condidit Terentius Varro. Quintilian, says he, did not suppose that Varro liv'd before Lucilius: What then? why he imitated Ennius's Satire, which was alterum & prius GENUS, a different and prior Kind to that of Lucilius.