Note 6 — Chapter I
Reading edition
Pliny, in one of his letters, relates, in reference to the reading of poetical productions in the gymnasia:—"This year has proved extremely fertile in poetical productions: during the whole month of April, scarce a day has passed wherein we have not been entertained with the recital of some poem. It is a pleasure to me to find, notwithstanding there seems to be so little disposition in the public to attend assemblies of this kind, that the sciences still flourish, and men of genius are not discouraged from producing their performances."