Note 030 This epigram (de Sene Veronensi qui surburbium nusquam egressus est) is one of the earliest and most pleasing compositions of Claudian. Cowley's imitation (Hurd's edition, vol. ii. p. 241) has some natural and happy strokes: but it is much inferior to the original portrait, which is evidently drawn from the life.

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The History Of The Decline and Fall Of The Roman Empire— Chapter 30