Note 115 Claudian feels the honour like a man who deserved it (in pranfat. Bell. Get.). The original inscription, on marble, was found at Rome, in the fifteenth century, in the house of Pomponius Laetus. The statue of a poet, far superior to Claudian, should have been erected, during his lifetime, by the men of letters, his countrymen and contemporaries. It was a noble design.

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