Livy, Fr. ap. Sen.
21-22 ruina . . . steterat, i.e. the restoration of the Commonwealth of the Scipios.
Cicero. ‘It happened many years after that Augustus once found one of his grandsons with a work of Cicero’s in his hands. The boy was frightened, and hid the book under his gown; but Caesar took it from him, and, standing there motionless, he read through a great part of the book; then he gave it back to the boy, and said “This was a great orator, my child; a great orator, and a man who loved his country well.”’—Plutarch, Cicero, 49.
LAUS ITALIAE.
Si te forte iuvant Helles Athamantidos urbes,
Nec desiderio, Tulle, movere meo,
Tu licet aspicias caelum omne Atlanta gerentem,
Sectaque Persea Phorcidos ora manu,
Geryonis stabula et luctantum in pulvere signa