on a Stone brought from Kalabshé by Captain Rarnrnr. 265 
Aucustus probably objected to the lines in the Georgic when first written, 
and communicated to him before they were generally known. 
However this may be, the account has been believed, and no doubt had 
gained credit in the time of Aprran. 
Then we find the cause of the anger of Aucustus, and of the recall and 
punishment of Gaxtus, to have been an accusation preferred against him 
by his friend and colleague VaLerius Lareus, viz. that he had erected statues 
of himself throughout Egypt, inscribed his own actions on the Pyramids, 
and when under the influence of wine, abused Aucustus. ‘The last is par- 
ticularly alluded to by Ovi, who considered it as the chief cause of offence. 
““ Nec fuit opprobrio celebrasse Lycorida Gallo, 
“© Sed linguam nimio non tenuisse mero.”—Ov. trist. 2. 445. 
Such a betraying of what passed probably in private, their disputes, and 
the falsehood of the accusation in the opinion of the writer, may account 
for the words mala fraudes, jurgia, and perfida peciora. At all events, the 
coincidence is curious, as, I think, is that of the two last words in the 
third line of Virgil’s tenth Eclogue, and those of the line of this inscription, 
which ends with 
“< ————. defundere Carmina Gauto,” 
that of the Eclogue ending : 
“ ———— neget quis Carmina Gato 2”* 
The writer had probably the latter in his mind. 
©) Set for sed occurs in most instances in the palimpsest manuscript of 
Cicero de Republica, discovered by AncELo Mazo in the Vatican library, as 
he informs us in a note at the end of his edition of that work, published 
in London 1823: aput, istut, it, are also put for apud, istud, id. This, he 
thinks, was the ancient way of writing the words. The MS. of St. Aucusrin, 
written over the MS. of Cicero, was anterior to the tenth century, the 
latter doubtless much more ancient. 
© Rimata is here used in a passive sense, as it was in the later times 
It is probable that the statues (small bronzes perhaps) of the Roman deities, 
which had been brought to Egypt, had been removed in the time of 
* Parodied by Milton, “« Who would not sing for Lycidas ?” 
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