APPENDIX.

NOTE I.—The Menippean Satires of Varro.

The reader will find all the information on this subject in Riese's edition of the Menippean Satires, Leipsic, 1865. We append a few fragments showing their style, language, and metrical treatment.

(1) From the ammon metreis.

  “Quem secuntur eum rutundis velitis leves parmis 
  Ante signani quadratis multisignibus tecti.”

We observe here the rare rhythm, analogous to the iambic scazon, of a trochaic tetrameter with a long penultimate syllable.

(2) From the Anthropopolis.

  “Non fit thesauris non auro pectu' solutum; 
  Non demunt animis curas et religiones 
  Persarum montes, non atria diviti' Crassi.”

The style here reminds us strongly of Horace.

(3) From the Bimarcus.

  “Tunc repente caelitum altum tonitribus templum tonescat, 
  Et pater divon trisu cum fulmen igni fervido actum 
  Mutat in tholum macelli.”

(4) From the Dolium aut Seria, in anapaestics.

  “Mundus domus est maxima homulli 
  Quam quinque altitonae flammigerae 
  Zonae cingunt per quam limbus 
  Bis sex signis stellumicantibus 
  Aptus in obliquo aethere Lunae 
  Bigas acceptat.”

The sentiment reminds us of Plato.

(5) From the Est modus matulae, on wine.

  “Vino nihil iucundius quisquam bibit 
  Hoc aegritudinem ad medendam invenerunt, 
  Hoc hilaritatis dulce seminarium, 
  Hoc continet coagulum convivia.”

(6) From the Eumenides, in galliambics, from which those of Catullus may be a study.

  “Tibi typana non inanes sonitus Matri' Deum 
  Tonimu', canimu' tibi nos tibi nunc semiviti; 
  Teretem cornam volantem iactant tibi Galli.”

(7) From the Marcipor, a fine description.

  “Repente noctis circiter meridie 
  Cum pictus aer fervidis late ignibus 
  Caeli chorean astricen ostenderet 
  Nubes aquali frigido velo leves 
  Caeli cavernas aureas subduxerant 
  Aquam vomentes inferam mortalibus 
  Ventique frigido se ab axe eruperant, 
  Phrenetici septentrionum filii 
  Secum ferentes regulas ramos syrus. 
  At nos caduci naufragi ut ciconiae, 
  Quarum bipinnis fulminis plumas vapor 
  Percussit, alte maesti in terram cecidimus.”

NOTE II.—The Logistorici.

The Logistorici, which, as we have said, were imitated from Heraclides Ponticus, are alluded to under the name Hrakleideion by Cicero. He says (Att. xv. 27, 2), Excudam aliquid Hrakleideion, quod lateat in thesauris tuis (xvi. 2, 5) Hrakleideion, si Brundisium salvi, adoriemur. In xvi. 3, 1, he alludes to the work as his Cato Major de Senectute. Varro had promised him a Hrakleideion. Varro ... a quo adhuc Hr. illud non abstuli (xvi. 11, 3). He received it (xvi. 12).

NOTE III.—Some Fragments of Varro Atacinus.

This poet, who is by later writers often confounded with Varro Reatinus, was much more finished in his style, and therefore more read by the Augustan writers. Frequently when they speak of Varro it is to him that they refer. We append some passages from his Chorographia.