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The essay sketches literary conditions from the earliest times through the fall of the Roman Empire, using scattered references in classical authors to trace continuity of literary activity, methods of production and distribution, and the relations between writers and their readers. It considers how texts were produced, copied, and circulated and how authors reached and responded to their public, relying on citations drawn from contemporary scholarship. The author acknowledges limits of the evidence, explains editorial choices and corrections in successive editions, and offers a concise synthesis of ancient practices governing literary creation, dissemination, and audience engagement.

[199] xi., 25.

[200] Gesch. der Denk- und Glaubensfreiheit im ersten Jahrhundert der Kaiserherrschaft, p. 138.

[201] Ep., xiii., 3.

[202] iv., 88, 1.

[203] v., 16, 10.

[204] xi., 3.

[205] i., 113.

[206] Ep., i., 2.

[207] Schmidt, p. 143; Martial, vii., 17.

[208] ii., 1, 5.

[209] vii., 11 and 17.

[210] Haenny, p. 39.

[211] Simcox, p. 249.

[212] De Bibliopolis Romanorum, 10-12.

[213] Gallus (Deutsche Ausgabe), ii., 450.

[214] P. 354.

[215] x. 74.

[216] De Gramm., Reiff., p. 106, 12.

[217] P. 355.

[218] xii., 46.

[219] v., 56.

[220] i., 76.

[221] v., 16.

[222] xiii., 11.

[223] Simcox, p. 250.

[224] Juvenal, Sat., vii., 39-47.

[225] Juvenal, v., 82-94.

[226] Cap. ix.

[227] Birt, 347.

[228] Catullus, 95, quoted by Birt, 345.

[229] Birt, 345.

[230] Epist., i., 8, 3.

[231] Fronto, Epist. ad Verum, ii., 9.

[232] Birt, 357; see also Cicero, Philipp., ii., 4.

[233] Ep., i., 4, 118.

[234] Martial, Ep., i., 117.

[235] Lucian, 58, 4.

[236] Gell., 9, 4, 1.

[237] Plin., Ep., 9, 11.

[238] Martial, 7, 88.

[239] Horace, Ep., 20, 13.

[240] Birt, 363.

[241] Birt, 359.

[242] Birt, 348.

[243] Quint., Epist. ad Tryphon.

[244] Mart., xiii., 3.

[245] Seneca, De Beneficiis, vii., 6, 1. Quoted by Birt, p. 358.

[246] Renouard, i., 15.

[247] Sueton., Domitian, c. 10.

[248] Aulus Gellius, 19, 5, 4, 9; 14, 3.

[249] Epist., i., 8, 2.

[250] Bursian, Geog. Griechenlands, p. 290.

[251] Strabo, p. 646.

[252] Ad Quintum, iii., 4.

[253] Juvenal, iii., 206.

[254] Sueton., Domitian, 20.

[255] Birt, p. 361.

[256] De Fin., ii., 7.

[257] Epist., iii., 7.

[258] 48, 4.

[259] Birt, 361.

[260] Suidas, Lexicon.

[261] Capitolinus, Gordianus, 18, 2.

[262] Martial, 14, 190.

[263] Simcox, ii., 49.

[264] Simcox, ii., p. 77.

[265] Tac., Ann., iii., 49.

[266] Simcox, ii., p. 77.

[267] Martial, vi., 12.

[268] Martial, iv., 72. Simcox, p. 107.

[269] Simcox, ii., p. 142.

[270] Simcox, ii., p. 236.

[271] Birt.

[272] Pliny, Epist., iv., 7.

[273] Birt, 352.

[274] Pliny, xxxv., II (trans. from Birt’s version).

[275] Ritschl, Ramsay, and other scholars take the view that Pliny was referring to actual portraits which Varro had prepared by an admirable invention of his own.

[276] Simcox, i., p. 206.

[277] Simcox, ii., 243.

[278] Birt, 367.

[279] Diog. Laërt., ix., 52.

[280] Sueton., Octavius, 31.

[281] Sueton., Caligula, 34.

[282] Sueton., Tiberius, 61.

[283] Sueton., Domitian, 10.

[284] Tacitus, Agric., 2. Plin., Ep., vii., 19.

[285] Burckhardt, Constant., p. 151.

[286] Burckhardt, 341.

[287] Codex, ix., 36, “De Famosis Libellis.”

[288] Renouard, 17.

[289] Klostermann, p. 37.

[290] Just. 34, Inst. l. c. Cited by Klostermann, 37.

[291] Plinius, xiii., 83.

[292] Euseb., Hist. Eccles., vi., 13.

[293] Birt, 375.

[294] Theodoric the Goth, pp. 263-276.

[295] Oman, The Byzantine Empire, p. 280.

[296] Gibbon’s Rome, Am. ed., v., 525.

[297] Hist. Europ. Morals, Amer. ed., p. 13.

Corrections

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p. iv

  • Louis Haenny, H. Géraud, and A. Meinecke.
  • Louis Haenny, H. Géraud, and A. Meineke.

p. 297

  • Acoka, the edicts of, 44
  • Açoka, the edicts of, 44

p. 301

  • Golden Meadows, the, of El Mesondee, 49
  • Golden Meadows, the, of El-Mesoudee, 49

p. 304

  • Lycophon, 132
  • Lycophron, 132