Ergo notas scripto, tolerasti, Pergame, vultu,
et quas neglexit dextera, frons patitur.—Epigr. xxxvi, p. 325.
[559] Protrep. 5.
[560] Protrep. 9.
[561] This is the accepted reading, though the ‘o’ of Chiron should of course be long. There is a varia lectio ‘Achillea Chiron’. Glover remarks that Ausonius was prone to metrical blunders.
[562] Sat. vii. 210 ‘metuens virgae iam grandis Achilles’.
Tu quoque ne metuas, quamvis schola verbere multo
increpet et truculenta senex gerat ora magister ...
... nec te clamor plagaeque sonantes