PREFACE THIS Edition is substantially identical with Vol. II of my larger Horace, published in 1891. I have endeavoured to make some of the notes rather simpler, and I have taken the opportunity of correcting, as far as I could, errors that I had discovered, or which had been pointed out to me. And in twelve years one's judgment on some points has changed. The publication by the Clarendon Press of the text of Horace with a modest 'apparatus criticus,' which is embodied in this volume, has rendered superfluous a certain number of notes on textual questions where the meaning was not seriously involved. I should say that the spelling of Latin words has been assimilated to the standard adopted by desire of the Delegates in that edition. LINCOLN, April, 1903. codex Dessaviensis A codex olim Argentoratensis in urbis obsidione xxx abhinc annis incendio absumptus codex Turicensis C. 154 codex Lipsiensis I. 4. 38 € = codex Einsiedlensis 361 = γ codex Parisinus 7975 Cet E = partes duae codicis Monacensis 14685 g=codex Gothanus B. 61 Acr. interpretationes Pseudo-Acronis = Porph. = interpretationes Porphyrionis Comm. Cruq. Commentator Cruquianus = GENERAL INTRODUCTION TO THE SATIRES § 1. Division of the two Books. It may be taken for certain that the division of the two Books of Satires is a real and chronological division, not merely, like that of the first three books of the Odes, the division for artistic purposes of a collection given to the world together. Such a real division is indicated by the very definite epilogue with which the First Book is concluded, and the prologue with which the Second Book opens. No doubt something of this effect is given by the placing of Od. 2. 20 and 3. I, and in a slighter way still by that of Od. 1. 37, 38 and 2. I; but in the case of the Odes there is no mistake when we come to Od. 3. 30 and compare it with I. I, that we have in them the true prologue and epilogue to the work as a whole. To make the parallel effective, Book II of the Satires should have an epilogue which would mark not only the close of a Book but the achievement of a full purpose. Sat. II is ended in a manner suitable to the more dramatic character of the Book, not by a conscious epilogue, but by a sketch lighter in tone than the two which precede it, and one which gathers up and puts in more dramatic form some of the chief topics of the book and especially of its earlier part. Amongst Horace's collections of poems it is analogous to the conclusion of the Epodes and of the IVth Book of the Odes, not to that of Sat. I, Odes I-III, or Epp. I. He has his two manners, evidently, of ending a Book: but this does not render it more probable that he should have published the two Books of Satires together and ended the first with 'I puer, atque meo citus haec subscribe libello,' and the second with 'velut illis Canidia adflasset peior serpentibus Afris.' But in truth the two Books stand apart from one another widely, both in general form and topics, and also in tone personal and literary, and in the background of circumstance. In Book I Octavianus is mentioned only once, and then incidentally as patron |