elegantly adopted the same strain of compliment.
Te multa prece, te prosequitur mero
Defuso pateris; et Laribus tuum
Miscet numen, uti Graecia Castoris
Et magni memor Herculis. *Carm. IV. 5.*
> To thee he chants the sacred song,
> To thee the rich libation pours;
> Thee placed his household gods among,
> With solemn daily prayer adores
> So Castor and great Hercules of old,
> Were with her gods by grateful Greece enrolled.(155) The panegyric bestowed upon Augustus by the great