These  satires  were  set  to  music,  and  repeated  with  suitable
gestures,  accompanied  with  the  flute  and  dancing.  They  had
every  thing  that  was  agreeable  in  the  Fescennine  verses,  with-
out their  obscenity.  They  contciined  much  ridicule  and  smart
repartee ;  whence  those  poems  afterwards  written  to  expose
vice  got  the  name  of  satires ;  as,  the  satires  of  Horace,  of  Juve-
nal, and  Persius.
It  was  Livius  ANDRONicus,  the  freedman  of  M.  Livius  Salinator,
and  the  preceptor  of  his  sons,  who  giving  up  satires,^  first  ven-
tured to  write  a  regular  play,**  A.  U.  512,  some  say,  514;  the
year  before  Ennius  was  boru,  above  160  years  afier  the  death
of  Sophocles  and  Euripides,  and  about  fifty-two  years  after  that
of  Menander.^^     He  was  the  actor  of  his  own  compositions,  as

1  ludi  wenici.  6  Snet.  Tib.d4.CBS.81.  10  ibid.                             14  argumento  fabakn
i;  Lir.  vii.  2.                       Cic  Plane.  11.  Ver.  iJi.  11  Hor.  Ep.  Il.i.  145.        serere.
H  vKta,  ambra,                     79.  Vi  ueplus      usarpondo    ]5  Cic.  Brat  18.  OtlL
4  Or,  Art.  Am.  i.  103.  7  ludion^s.  tw  excvUV*. e«x.                 's.vu.2U
Serr.  Virg.  .^.n.i.  164.  8  Liv.  vU.  2.  1^  a3a»m»»•«■,^.c.VAVl^.-
^  ffMii$^,  tiberaac uluui.  9  ad  I'uicuuB  moAo*.  xv»  veV.c\!«.
