tur,
Quam festive convivantur, 20
Quis affectus eos stringat
Aut quae gemma muros pingat,
Quis chalcedon, quis iacinthus,
Norunt illi qui sunt intus.
In plateis huius urbis 25
Sociatus piis turbis
Cum Moyse et Elia
Pium cantem Alleluia. Amen.
_Hildebert._

ABBREVIATIONS.

A. & G. = Allen and Greenough's New Latin Grammar.
B. = Bennett's Latin Grammar.
G. & L. = Gildersleeve and Lodge's Latin Grammar.
Lex. = Harper's Latin-English Lexicon.
cf. = _confer_, compare.
e.g. = _exempli gratia_, for example.
ff. = following.
i.e. = _id est_, that is.
l.,ll. = line, lines.
lit. = literally.
p., pp. = page, pages.
sc. = _scilicet_, understand, supply.
vol. = volume.

NOTES.

CLASSICAL LATIN POETRY.

I. ENNIUS. 239-169 B.C.

Ennius ut noster cecinit, qui primus amoeno
Detulit ex Helicone perenni fronde coronam,
Per gentes Italas hominum quae clara clueret.
Lucretius, 1. 117-119.

Let us venerate Ennius like the groves, sacred from their antiquity, in
which the great and ancient oak trees are invested not so much with
beauty as with sacred associations.--Quintilian, 10. 1. 88,--translated
by Sellar.

Q. Ennius, 'the Father of Latin Literature,' was born at Rudiae, a town
of Calabria and a point of contact between the Italian and Greek
civilizations. He served with the rank of centurion in the Roman army in
Sardinia and attached himself to Cato the Censor. In 204 he came to
Rome, where he lived modestly, supporting himself by teaching Greek and
by his writings. There he became an intimate friend of the great Scipio.
The most famous of his works are the tragedies, written on Greek models,
and the _Annals_, a long epic poem in eighteen books, whose subject is
the history of Rome from the earliest times to Ennius' own day. We have
fragments of about twenty-five of the tragedies. Of the _Annals_ about
six hundred lines are preserved.

Ennius introduced the dactylic hexameter into Latin poetry.

He was versatile, widely read in Greek literature, a man of practical
interests and intellectual vigor. His intense patriotism was rewarded by
an enduring popularity.

For Reference: Sellar, _Roman Poets of the Republic_ (Oxford, 1889),
chapter 4; the collections of the fragments by Vahlen (Leipzig, 1854)
and by Muller (St. Petersburg, 1885).

Metres: Dactylic Hexameter, B. 368; A.