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D. OCTAVIUS CAESAR AUGUSTUS.


(191) Saepe stylum vertas, iterum quae digna legi sint
Scripturus.—Sat. i. x.

Would you a reader’s just esteem engage?
Correct with frequent care the blotted page.—Francis.

————Vos, O
Pompilius sanguis, carmen reprehendite, quod non
Multa dies et multa litura coercuit, atque
Perfectum decies non castigavit ad uuguem.
De. Art. Poet.

Sons of Pompilius, with contempt receive,
Nor let the hardy poem hope to live,
Where time and full correction don’t refine
The finished work, and polish every line.—Francis.

To the several causes above enumerated, as concurring to

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