of the Age. I need not tell my Reader, that I here point at the Reign of
Augustus
, and I believe he will be of my Opinion, that neither
Virgil
nor
Horace
would have gained so great a Reputation in the World, had they not been the Friends and Admirers of each other. Indeed all the great Writers of that Age, for whom singly we have so great an Esteem, stand up together as Vouchers for one another's Reputation. But at the same time that
Virgil
was celebrated by