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And there's worse to come: your old age lisping sentences with a classful of beginners at street-corners. But when the warm sun brings along more hearers, tell them that I, the son of a humble freedman, grew wings that outspread the nest (so that whatever my family lose in the tale my merits gain), found favour with the great, in war and peace, was short, prematurely grey, fond of the sun, quick-tempered, but quick to be calmed down again . If anyone makes enquiries about my age, say I completed my forty -fourth December in the year when Lepidus joined Lollius.
The man who crushed the hydra and quelled great monsters in his destined labouts found Out that envy is only tamed by death. Such brilliance , weighing on talents placed beneath it, inflames them: once extinguished , it's admired. You receive honours when they are due, in your lifetime: we set up altars where we invoke yOut godhead, we admit yo u have no equal, past or future. But this people of YOutS, so wise and JUSt in putting you only above our own and the Grecian heroes, by no means use that judgement on other things, and view with contempt and disgust whatever has not completed its time and left the land of the living .
2. 1 I do not hound down Livius, or want his work burned (I recall Orbili us, that great caner, dictati ng him at school); but how can they think him correct, artistic , all but perfec tly finished? If here and there a choice word flashes Out, if a line or two is slightl y neater than most, it drags the whole work with it into the book-s hops. I fume when someth ing's criticiz ed not because it 's crudel y or harshly writte n , but recentl y, when praise , and not indulg ence, is sough t for the ancien ts.