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AND FIRST SATIRE--EXAMINATION OF THIS--JUVENAL--MARTIAL--THE STYLE OF THE EPIGRAMS--PR?CIS OF THEIR CRITICAL --STATIUS--PLINY THE YOUNGER--CRITICISM IN THE 'LETTERS'--THE 'DIALOGUS DE CLARIS ORATORIBUS'--MR NETTLESHIP'S ESTIMATE OF IT--THE GENERAL LITERARY TASTE OF THE SILVER AGE--"FAULTLESSNESS"--ORNATE OR PLAIN STYLE.

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I use the smaller edition of B?cheler, Berlin, 1862.

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There is a theory that the verses put in the mouth of Eumolpus are parodies of Lucan and Seneca.

The opening passage is occupied with that denunciation of bombastic and "precious" language which seems to have been the favourite occupation of the critics of the time. The attack is at first directed against the practice of declamation, which almost inevitably tempted boys and youthful writers to bombast, but it so quickly glides into a general literary censure that it is worth giving in full.

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"Of late this windy and extravagant loquacity has shifted from Asia to Athens, and has breathed upon the aspiring minds of youth like a pestilential star, and forthwith true eloquence, its rule corrupted, has been arrested, and put to silence. Tell me, who has since equalled the fame of Thucydides, of Hyperides? Not so much as a lyric of wholesome complexion has appeared, and everything, as if poisoned with the same food, has been unable to last to a natural grey old age. Even painting has made no better end, since the audacity of the Egyptians has cut so great an art down to shorthand."

The rhetorician Agamemnon defends scholastic procedure by the old plan of throwing the blame on parents and the like; but the story quickly turns to one of its more than "picaresque" episodes, and the subject drops.

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