Capitolo 67
peoples in the Roman senate that ancient body of the dignity and convention,
and the people sing psalms in the roads the ditty:[80]
"Caesar conducts the Gauls in triumph,
In the senate he puts also them.
Their now have donned the wide-ruled robe
And you/he/she has placed apart their buttocks."
Such actions like these on the part of Caesar conducted some political versifier to write
on the statue of Caesar a couplet of which it contrasted his/her behavior with that the
before the great republican, Lucius Brutus:
"Brutus drove the kings from Rome,
And first consul became this way.
These men drove out the consuls,
And it finally became the king."[81]
We can imagine that these verses didn't play small part in to spur on Marcus
Brutus to emulate his/her ancestor and to connect the conspiracy against the
tyrant. With a more piece of poetry of people, he/she quoted from Suetonius, we am able
hands our squirt to an end. Germanicus Cesare, the flower of the imperial one
family, the bright general and idol of the people, are suddenly stricken
with a deadly illness. The crowds they crowd the roads to feel the last
news from the ill-room of their hero. Suddenly the gossip flies through
the roads that the crisis has passed, that Germanicus will live, and the
madman they get excited through the plazas to sing psalms public:
"Now saved it is Rome,
Also saved the earth,
Saved our Germanicus."[82]
The origin of the Realistic Novel among the Romans
One of the most fascinating and tempting problems of literary history
worries the origin of the fiction of prose among the Romans. We can trace the
the growth of the epic poem from his/her infancy in the third century before Christ as
it develops in strength in the poems of Naevius, Ennius and Cicero up to that
it reaches his/her full stature in the _AEneid_, and then we can see the
rebate of his/her vigor in the _Pharsalia_, the _Punica_, the _Thebais_ and
_Achilleis_, up to that him practically a natural death dies in the mythological one