ENNIUS. See "Poets." EUTRAPELUS.-Epist. 1. xviii. 31. P. Volumnius, of whose elegance (evτрañeλía) Cicero writes (Epist. ad Fam. vii. 32-33), seems to have acquired the name of Eutrapelus. Cicero appears to have appointed Eutrapelus as a sort of guardian over his reputation as a wit; as bound to take care that bad jokes were not imputed to him; and this in a strain of laboured pleasantry, which implies that Volumnius must have had a difficult office. Yet Volumnius seems to have been a man of solid and masculine character. Cicero, in his Orations, shows confidence in his judgment, and consults him on the affairs of the republic. FABIUS.-Sat. I. i. 14. If the same alluded to Sat. I. ii. 134, a Roman knight, born at Narbonne, who wrote some books on the Stoic philosophy. He was a partisan of Pompeius (so Acron). Certainly not the Fabius Maximus mentioned by Quintilian (I. O. 1. iv. 3); but he may have. been a more obscure man than either. FANNIUS.-See "Poets." FLAVIUS. The schoolmaster at Venusia. Sat. I. vi. 72. FLORUS, JULIUS.-See" Poets." FONTEIUS CAPITO.-See "Capito." FUFIDIUS.-Sat. 1. ii. 12. An usurer; possibly a Roman knight, mentioned by Cicero in Pison. xxxviii. FUFIUS.-Sat. 11. iii. 60. An actor, who fell asleep in the part of Ilione, in a tragedy of Pacuvius, and could not be awakened by the ghost of Deiphobus, who addressed her. The ghost was played by the stentorian. Catienus. See "Catienus." "Mater te appello, quæ curam somno suspensam levas, Cic. Tuscul. i. 44; Welcker die Griechische Tragödie, p. 1150. FULVIUS.Sat. II. vii. 96. A gladiator. FUNDANIUS.-See "Poets." FURIUS BIBACULUS.-See "Poets." FURNIUS.-Sat. 1. x. 86. The Comment. Cruq. de scribes him as an historian of credit and elegance. named in Senec. de Benef. i. 25. FUSCUS ARISTIUS.-See "Aristius." GABINIUS.-The He is Codex. Turic. has an inscription of Carm. II. v. Ad Gabinium. This might be a son or grandson of A. Gabinius, the enemy of Cicero.—Orelli. GALBA.-Sat. 1. ii. 46. Probably A. Galba, a noted wit, and parasite of Augustus, whose jests were not the most decent (Quintil. I. O. vi. 9). Juvenal calls him vilis (Sat. v. 5). See Martial. i. 42; x. 101. Plutarch. Erotic. Edit. Reiske. ix. p. 46. GALLINA.—Sat. II. vi. 45. A famous Thracian gladiator. GALLONIUS.-Sat. 11. ii. 47. The crier (præco) who first served up a whole sturgeon, and became the object of satire to Lucilius: "O Publi! O gurges! Galloni: es homo miser, inquit ; GARGILIUS.-Epist. 1. vi. 59. Unknown: a man who affected the character of an indefatigable hunter. GARGONIUS.-Sat. 1. ii. 27; iv. 92. Unknown: a man of filthy habits. GLYCERA. Carm. 1. xix. 5; xxx. 3; III. xix. 28. A common name for a Greek slave. GLYCERA.-Mistress of Tibullus. Carm. I. xxxiii. 2. GROSPHUS POMPEIUS.-Carm. II. xvi. 8. Epist. 1. xii. 22. A Roman knight: his connection with the Pompeii is not to be traced; he is mentioned as resident in Sicily. Horace entertained a high opinion of him. HAGNA.-Sat. 1. iii. 40. A freed-woman, mistress of Balbinus. HEBRUS.-Carm. 111. xii. 6. A beautiful youth. The most learned teacher of rhetoric at Rome; not certainly known from any other authority. HELLAS.-Sat. 1. iii. 277. The mistress of Marius. HERMOGENES. See "Tigellius." HIRPINUS.-See "Quinctus." HYPSEA.-Sat. I. ii. 91. A woman of rank; blind. IARBITA.-Epist. 1. xix. 15. A certain Cordus (or Codrus), if the same mentioned in Virgil, “invidiâ rumpantur ut ilia Codro" (Ecl. vii. 26). He was a man of Moorish birth, who aspired to the fame of letters, and endeavouring to equal Timagenes in the force of his declamation, burst some of the vessels of his diaphragm, and died. He perhaps had taken the name of Iarbita to affect a descent from the ancient Mauritanian kings; or the wits of Rome had given him that name.— -Weichert, Poet. Lat. p. 391. IBYCUS.-Carm. III. xv. 1. ICCIUS.-Unknown, except from the Ode (1. xxix.) and the Epistle (1. xii.) addressed to him by Horace. From the Ode, it appears that Iccius had devoted himself to philosophy; he had bought a library, and seemed determined to lead a life of tranquil and secluded meditation. But when the invasion of Arabia under Ælius Gallus took place, Iccius was seized with a sudden access of military ardour; the philosopher became a soldier. Arabia seem to have been a kind of El Dorado to Roman avarice and ambition. In all their Eastern campaigns, the Romans, notwith standing the fate of Crassus and of Antonius, dreamed of inexhaustible plunder, of gold and precious stones, of beautiful and royal captives. Arabia was supposed to be the happy country of gold and of rich spices; and if once reached, would fall an easy prey to Roman valour. Horace, with friendly playfulness, bordering on satire, touches on the sudden change of his friend from an unwarlike philosopher to an armed adventurer. The fatal issue of the campaign. left Iccius poorer than before. In the Epistle he appears as the manager of Agrippa's Sicilian estates. Horace gently consoles him for his poverty. He leads him back, as it were, to his philosophy, to that practical philosophy which Horace himself professed and cultivated, through which contented poverty and honourable frugality might supply the place of wealth. In the midst of the sordid business and struggle after gain, which belonged to his present station, Iccius might altogether abstract his mind to nobler cares, and soar to the utmost heights of speculative philosophy. The whole realm of natural science is open to him, as well as the whole domain of moral inquiry. The poet commends to him the society of his honoured friend Pompeius Grosphus, who would willingly share his humblest fare, and expect nothing beyond the scanty vegetable diet to which Iccius might find it convenient to confine himself. He concludes with sending him some news from Rome to console him in his banishment. Wieland was certainly unjust to the character of Iccius; followed by other commentators. as the subject, rather of sly and bitter satire, than of gentle and friendly reproof, to the poet; as a vain man, whose pretensions to philosophy Horace intended to ridicule; as a man of insatiable avarice, whom he would hold up to and Wieland has been Wieland represents him contempt. Fr. Jacobs, in his Lectiones Venusinæ, has pointed out that this, which Wieland treats as amiable raillery, would rather have been cruel insult and treachery to a man towards whom he professed friendship. He justly observes, that the Epistle is a commendatory one. Horace would hardly have introduced and associated Iccius in his poetry, with a man of the high station and character of Pompeius Grosphus, unless he had esteemed him for his virtues, though he might not be blind to his faults. It was the Poet's further object to reconcile Iccius with his situation in Sicily, with which he might be reasonably discontented, and might have complained to his friend. It was a banishment from Rome, and from good society; he was overpowered with business probably uncongenial to his tastes; and this, not the least bitter recollection, by his own folly in abandoning that philosophical quiet, which, like Horace, he might have continued to enjoy, had he not rashly joined in the disastrous expedition of Ælius Gallus. The easy and almost familiar manner in which Horace endeavours to persuade Iccius that happiness is yet in his power, since he had at least a sufficient maintenance, that he may find it in his own mind and in his philosophical pursuits, show rather the good sense and friendliness of the Poet, than the graceful cleverness which would conceal sarcasm and contempt under grave advice. INACHIA.-Epod. xi. 6; xii. 14, 15. JULIUS FLORUS.-See "Poets." JULUS ANTONIUS.-See "Poets." LABEO.-Sat. 1. iii. 82. A man notorious for some act of mad cruelty to a slave. The Scholiast interprets this of M. Antistius Labeo, son of the Labeo, who, after the defeat at Philippi, followed the example of Brutus and Cassius |