CHAPTER 13. _Ennius_ (239-169 B.C.), the 'father of Roman Poetry'. Cp.

Cic. de Or. ii. 156 'ac sic decrevi philosophari potius ut Neoptolemus apud Ennium "paucis: nam omnino haud placet"'.

_the mirror_, clearly regarded by the accusers, though Apuleius does not say so, as a magical instrument.