Note 286 — Chapter XI · AUGUSTUS AND HIS WORSHIPPERS
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Hor., Od. 3, 136. Suetonius (Aug. 85) mentions others, “An answer to Brutus about Cato,” evidently a youthful essay; “Exhortations to Philosophy,” no doubt youthful too; an hexameter poem called Sicilia. When he tried to read them in later life to a family audience they bored him so much that he handed the rolls over to Tiberius to finish. Lastly, a short volume of Epigrams which he used to compose in the bath.