little scruple, that he did not spare cotemporary poets and orators, and even lashed Nero himself, who was then the reigning prince. The verse ran as follows:
Auriculas asini Mida rex habet;
King Midas has an ass’s ears;
but Cornutus altered it thus;
Auriculas asini quis non hahet?
Who has not an ass’s ears?
in order that it might not be supposed that it was meant to apply to Nero.
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