Excerpt from Authorship of the Culex After the introduction, the Culex (26 - 34) announces its negative limitations beginning with namque cauit non pagina bellum I Triste Iovis, mentioning the war with the giants, the Lapithae, the move ments of Xerxes, and closing with an adaptation of a line in Lucretius. There is a longer passage of similar mold in Manilius (3, 5 begins with a negative as does the passage in the Culex. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.