Lanciani, Rodolfo Amedeo, 1847-1929 · Boston and New York, Houghton Mifflin company · leaf 110
HE LAND OF HORACE 81 friendship of the beady-eyed lyrist was sought by thegreat of the land for his own sake; they were civil tohim mostly in the hope of securing the dedication of apoem, by means of which their names would pass toposterity. And their wishes were evidently compliedwith, for nearly… … The peristyle of the Temple of Hercules, where Augustus administered justice Varus, Gallus, and not a few gay ladies have thusgained immortality in exchange for civilities shown tothe son of an ex-slave of Venosa. These, then, were the personages whose assembly atTibur made it the fashionable…
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