Note 34 — Chapter II · ON PEDICATION
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“Sextus Pompeius reproached him for being effeminate, and Marc Anthony says he bought his adoption from his uncle (or rather his great-uncle) by prostituting himself to him. On a day of public games all the world understood and applied to him very demonstratively the following verses, spoken of a Priest of Cybelé, Mother of the Gods, playing the tambourine”:
“See you how a cinede governs the world with a finger?” (Suetonius, Augustus, ch. 68.)
A picture representing Augustus playing the part of a patient, is in the Monuments de la vie privée des douze Césars, pl. VI., and another of Cæsar and Nicomedes, pl. I.