^{page 51 note 1} Cf. L. Ferrero, Poetica nuova in Lucrezio (1949), not cited by Castorina. This book has not in my view received a due meed of recognition. Among its undoubted short-comings, however, is one which Castorina would have done well to remark, the fact that, in the words of one reviewer, Ferrero's ‘definition of neoterismo Romano is wide enough to include practically all the intellectual activities of the late republic’ (Michels, , A.J.P. lxxiv [1953], 220–221Google Scholar; cf. Giancotti, , Doxa iv [1951], 169–173)Google Scholar.

^{page 52 note 1} Thus the identification of the noui poetae with the cantores Euphorionis is taken for granted by Castorina (p. 39), as it has been by many others before him; on what grounds except those of convenience, that it tidies for things up? This is not how Occam's Razor was meant to be used.