Note 221 — Chapter VIII · THE NEW CONSTITUTION, B.C. 30-23
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Vergil, Georg. iv. 560, Cæsar dum magnus ad altum fulminat Euphratem bello. Horace, Od. 1, 12, 53:
Ille seu Parthos Latio imminentes Egerit iusto domitos triumpho, Sive subjectos Orientis oræ Seras et Indos.
Similar exaggerations will be found scattered throughout the poems of Propertius (ii. 7, 3; iii. 1, 13; iii. 23, 5; iv. 3, 4; iv. 4, 48; iv. 11, 3). Still more exaggerated language was used afterwards on the restoration of the standards (B.C. 20).