Note 074 This story is related by Hesychius, (de Viris Illustribus,) Procopius, (Anecdot. c. 13,) and Suidas, (tom. iii. p. 501.) Such flattery is incredible!

__Nihil est quod credere de se Non possit, cum laudatur Diis aequa potestas.

Fontenelle (tom. i. p. 32 - 39) has ridiculed the impudence of the modest Virgil. But the same Fontenelle places his king above the divine Augustus; and the sage Boileau has not blushed to say, "Le destin a ses yeux n'oseroit balancer" Yet neither Augustus nor Louis XIV. were fools.

The History Of The Decline And Fall Of The Roman Empire —Fall In The East —Chapter 44