Laevius

“C. F. Heffernan, The Phoenix at the Fountain (1988), p. 35”

“Kenneth Quinn, The Catullan Revolution (1959), p. 15”

“H. W. Garrod, The Oxford Book of Latin Verse (1912), no. 51”

“J. C. Rolfe, The Attic Nights of Aulus Gellius, Vol. 3, LCL 195 (1928), pp. 366, 380”

“J. C. Rolfe, The Attic Nights of Aulus Gellius, Vol. 1, LCL 195 (1927), p. 204”

“J. C. Rolfe, Suetonius, Vol. 2, LCL 38 (1914), p. 400”

“W. W. Merry, Selected Fragments of Roman Poetry, 2nd ed. (Oxford, 1898), pp. 182–5”

“Emil Bährens, Fragmenta Poetarum Romanorum (Leipzig, 1886), p. 287”

“The grammarians too were so highly esteemed, and their compensation was so ample, that Lutatius Daphnis, whom Laevius Melissus, punning on his name, often called the “darling of Pan,” is known to have been bought for seven hundred thousand sesterces and soon afterwards set free.”

“Venus amoris altrix,genetrix cupiditatis,mihi quae diem serenumhilarula praepandere cresti,opesculae tuae ac ministrae.”

“Corpore (inquit) pectoreque undique obeso acMente exsensa tardigenucloSenio obpressum.”

“Te Andromacha per ludum manulasciuola ac tenellulacapiti meo, trepidans libensinsolita plexit munera.”