...eine wahre Janusfigur, auf ein Mal gelehrter Buchwurm und musischer Mensch" (Hinweis von S. Engberg). Nam fuit hoc vitiosus, in hora saepe ducentos Ut magnum, versus dictabat, stans pede in uno. Aber diese Leute kann man nicht widerlegen, wo man nicht zugleich seinen eignen Ruhm ausbreiten will....

...scribendi recte) that Horace here implies exist as an absolute measure of worth (5^.1.4.7-13): . . . facetus, emunctae naris, durus componere versus, nam...ducentos, ut magnum, versus dictabat stans pede in uno; cum flueret lutulentus, erat quod tollere velles; garrulus atque piger scribendi ferre laborem —...

...he who had restored something to the form it possessed in their time"8 — in the following terms: facetus, emunctae naris, durus componere versus, nam...ducentos, ut magnum, versus dictabat stans pede in uno; cum flueret lutulentus, erat quod tollere velles; garrulus atque piger scribendi ferre laborem, scribendi...

...founder" (48), namely Ennius. In the second passage Horace recounts the debt of Lucilius to Old Comedy: hinc omnis pendet Lucilius, hosce secutus, mutatis...tantum pedibus numerisque, facetus, emunctae naris, dums conponere uersus Lucilius depends on all of them and modeled himself on them, changing only their...

...the language is scrupulously correct" (Rudd 1982: 96). Satire 1.4.6—8 is typical in this regard: hinc omnis pendet Lucilius, hosce secutus mutatis...numerisque; facetus, emunctae naris, durus componere versus. [All Lucilius derives from here, having followed them / with only feet and meters changed, witty /...

...ist das so außergewöhnlich nicht; daß ihn Hor. sat. 1,4,9-13 als einen Vielschreiber kritisierte - nam fuit hoc vitiosus: in hora saepe ducentos, / Ut magnum, versus dictabat stans pede in uno — macht die formale Kritik an seinem Vorgänger noch formalistischer, wenn man den langsam schreibenden...