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D. OCTAVIUS CAESAR AUGUSTUS.

rewarded on the occasion. Virgil, provoked at the falsehood of the impostor, again wrote the verses on some conspicuous part of the palace, and under them the following line:


Hos ego versiculos feci, tulit alter honorem;
I wrote the verse, another filched the praise;

with the beginning of another line in these words:


Sic vos, non vobis,
Not for yourselves, you——

repeated four times. Augustus expressing a desire that the lines should be

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