He holds that 'The passage, keeping steadily within the limits so rigidly imposed by Roman Stage-censorship, is written from the stand-point of sympathy with the Plebs in favour of Scipio's assuming command against Hannibal, and reflects very brightly and completely those features of the Second Punic War which were prominent and recent in 205 B.C.' The end of many of the prologues also shows that they were addressed to a people constantly engaged in war.
"The Roman Poets of the Republic"
W. Y. Sellar
93. 1465 They have their ordo, Plebs, decuriones, quinquennales, curatores, honorati, patroni, quaestores, etc.
"Roman Society from Nero to Marcus Aurelius"
Samuel Dill
He started out as an enthusiastic disciple of Arthur Schopenhauer; unquestionably the adherence was fixed by his own deep-seated contempt for the complacency of the Plebs.
"Prophets of Dissent Essays on Maeterlinck, Strindberg, Nietzsche and Tolstoy"
Otto Heller