Note 646 — Chapter III · SENECA THE PHILOSOPHER: MISCELLANEOUS LEARNING
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Ib., II. xxv. 2: “questus est quod foliis rosae duplicatis incubuisset.” A longer anecdote, admirably told, is that of Augustus twitting Asinius Pollio with keeping in his house “the wild beast” Timagenes, ib., III. xxxiii.