Chapter XXIX: Book IV: are explained away by Wölfflin as conscious imitation on the

part of the spurious author. It is at least arguable that, since words of his like _adiutorium_, foret as a variant for _esset_, _notabilis_ and _subinde_[1278] belonged to the manner of the period, there was no need to steal them. Representative words in Book IV bear the same general post-Augustan stamp, usually with a Livian association, like _praecessisse_ (IV. ii. 1, “be before others” in getting a bridge built), _praeoptare_ (IV. ii. 2, v. 22, “prefer”), _acclinauerat_ (IV. v. 5, “leaned against”), _ampliaretur_ (IV. iii. 12, “be increased,” an extension from the legal sense of adjournment). As a significant parallel to _inrequietum_ in the unchallenged part of Frontinus, we have an Ovidian word in _obmurmurare_ (IV. vi. 2). The whole linguistic evidence runs counter to any violent separation of the books in time of composition.

TECHNICAL WRITERS

In the professional writing of the Flavian age, law and grammar may be included. Under Vespasian, the Sabinian school of jurists was represented by Caelius Sabinus, and the Proculian by Pegasus. Other legal writers were Urseius Ferox, Plautius, and Juventius Celsus the elder. The younger Juventius belongs, with Neratius Priscus, to later Flavian days and still more to Trajan’s reign. One of the juridical writers of Domitian’s time was Aufidius Chius, mentioned by Martial. Among refined literary critics of the day was Apollinaris, also in Martial, whose Claranus, however, perhaps belonged to an earlier period. Possibly, but not certainly, we may place here Largius or Larcius Licinus, whose _Ciceromastix_ is significant of a literary quarrel; and Aemilius Asper, the erudite grammarian, who left his mark on ancient scholarship by his commentaries upon Terence, Sallust and Virgil.