the penalty" The other surviving comic playwright, Terence, by contrast, used alliteration hardly at all, and this is a major difference between his work and that of Plautus. Naeke, who quotes numerous examples from Plautus, can cite only a few from Terence, including the following: "Let him squander it, lose it, and perish; I don't care!" Cicero has frequent examples of alliteration in his poetry, but usually involving only two or three words in any one verse. In the following lines, which describe the killing of Orion by the Scorpion as depicted in the stars, the primary alliteration of V V V is accompanied by minor alliteration of D, C, T, F and R: "this struck him down, when he was eagerly hunting, with a powerful blow, pouring deadly poison through the wounds into his veins" Lucretius and Virgil also both used alliteration widely, Lucretius "with striking power in many memorable passages" (Austin), for example the following, where P, C, Q and R are mingled: "then wild beasts gambol over the joyful fieldsand swim across rapid streams; so, captured by delight,they follow you eagerly wherever you proceed to lead each one" In Virgil, alliteration was "no longer an external ornament ... but an inner secret of sound, subtly employed to serve emotion" (Austin). In the following example, the repetition of M, T, D, R, L, and V emphasise Aeneas's amazement and perplexity: Aeneas, for he was amazed and moved by the tumult, said "Tell me, o Virgin, what does this thronging to the river signify? Or what are the souls seeking? Or by what criterion do these abandon the river banks, while those sweep the dark shallows with oars?" Another example is the following line, in which the consonants in the first half of the line (CRNT, MTS) are mirrored by those in the second half (MTS, CRNT), emphasising the words "sad", "of death", and "lacking": "There he discerns, sad, and lacking the honour of death" In Horace and Catullus alliteration occurs much less frequently. Nonetheless even in Catullus there are lines such as the following with its alternation of C, G, T and D sounds, which appear to imitate the shaking of a tambourine: "And shaking the hollow back of a bull with her tender fingers she began to sing as follows, trembling, to her companions." In his lament for his dead brother the chiastic alliteration F M M