. The grandeur that was Rome; a survey of Roman culture and civilisation:. Flu. 1.—SACRIFICIAL RITES, PKOBAIJLY AT A Fiu. J.—PRElARIXC. FOR A SACRIFICE. l^p. 28S. Plate 84.—TWO MOSAICS. THE GROWTH OF THE EMPIRE at least his failure to hold the ear of to-day. Past generationshave esteemed him high among the worlds poets. Danteowed not a little to Lucan and Statius as well as to Vergil. It was only in its lighter forms that poetry continued tomake progress. The Silvce of Statius, which were shorteroccasional poems in elegiac or lyric measures thrown off atodd moments with ease and rapidit
. The grandeur that was Rome; a survey of Roman culture and civilisation:. Flu. 1.—SACRIFICIAL RITES, PKOBAIJLY AT A Fiu. J.—PRElARIXC. FOR A SACRIFICE. l^p. 28S. Plate 84.—TWO MOSAICS. THE GROWTH OF THE EMPIRE at least his failure to hold the ear of to-day. Past generationshave esteemed him high among the worlds poets. Danteowed not a little to Lucan and Statius as well as to Vergil. It was only in its lighter forms that poetry continued tomake progress. The Silvce of Statius, which were shorteroccasional poems in elegiac or lyric measures thrown off atodd moments with ease and rapidity, are far more interestingthan his frigid epic. Martial, the Spanish writer of vers desociHi, has a pretty wit that is often surprisingly modern inits tone. Certainly Juvenal towers over all others who haveattempted satire. Horace had been content with an easyfamiliarity of tone which might wheedle a friend into the pathof good sense by poking fun at his follies. Juvenal thundershis denunciations of wickedness with a moral heat which issurprising in an age often accused of feebleness. He does,however, resemble Lu
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