Note 325 — Chapter VIII · EARLY ROMAN SATIRE—C. LUCILIUS, DIED 102 B.C.
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In the same spirit is the following line:—
'Verum tristis contorto aliquo ex Pacuviano exordio.'
And this from another book of Satires:—
'Ransuro tragicus qui carmina perdit Oreste.'
Among the phrases of Ennius at which Lucilius carped was one which Virgil did not disdain to adopt. The passage of the old poet,—
'Hastis longis campus splendet et horret,'—
parodied by the Satirist in the form 'horret et alget,' was justified by being reproduced in the Virgilian phrase,
'Tum late ferreus hastis Horret ager.'