Note EG — 1819
Reading edition
Horace refers to Simonides, Carmina IV. ix. 5-8—
Non, si priores Mæonius tenet Sedes Homerus, Pindaricæ latent Ceæque et Alcæi minaces Stesichorique graves camenæ;
and again, Carmina II. i. 37-40—
Sed ne relictis, Musa, procax iocis Ceæ retractes munera neniæ: Mecum Dionæo sub antro Quære modos leviore plectro. Ed.