Note 026
He advised the Romans,

Consiliis armisque sua moderamina summa
Arbitrio tractare suo: nil juris in hâc re
Pontifici summo, modicum concedere regi
Suadebat populo. Sic laesâ stultus utrâque
Majestate, reum geminae se fecerat aulae.

Nor is the poetry of Gunther different from the prose of Otho.

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