man.” On the subject of his modesty; the following anecdote is related.
Having written a distich, in which he compared Augustus to Jupiter, he placed it in the night-time over the gate of the emperor’s palace. It was in these words:
Nocte pluit tota, redeunt spectacula mane:
Divisum imperium cum Jove Caesar habet.
> All night it rained, with morn the sports appear,
> Caesar and Jove between them rule the year.By order of Augustus, an inquiry was made after the author; and Virgil not declaring himself, the verses were claimed by Bathyllus, a contemptible poet, but who was liberally