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A literary history of Rome in the Silver Age

Note 1852 — LITERATURE IN THE REIGN OF HADRIAN A.D. 117–A.D. 138

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Spart. Hadr., xvi.; Bährens, Frag. P.R., p. 373.

Florus: “Ego nolo Caesar esse, Ambulare per Britannos, Scythicas pati pruinas.” Hadr.: “Ego nolo Florus esse, Ambulare per tabernas, Latitare per popinas, Culices pati rotundos.”

One of Florus’s lines may have dropped out.

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