[Footnote 10: The Capitoline games (certamen quinquenale,
musicum, equestre, gymnicum) were instituted by Domitian
(Sueton. c. 4) in the year of Christ 86, (Censorin. de Die
Natali, c. 18, p. 100, edit. Havercamp.) and were not
abolished in the ivth century, (Ausonius de Professoribus
Burdegal. V.) If the crown were given to superior merit, the
exclusion of Statius (Capitolia nostrae inficiata lyrae,
Sylv. l. iii. v. 31) may do honor to the games of the
Capitol; but the Latin poets who lived before Domitian were
crowned only in the public opinion.]