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Excerpt from The Satires of Persius
If Cos-rum found Nero (0 plainly pointed at here, he did very well to ufe this Precaution; thou h very pohi bly that Emperor was hill in his happy fiys, which continued the firfl five or fix Years of his Reign. But how comes it that Comma made no Alteration in four Verfes infested in the fame Satire, taken from a Tragedy of Nero 4' Was it a dangerous thing to fay King Midas bar Afis Ears, whilll it was allowable to quote his Verfea as a Model of ridiculous Poetry? I find fome Dificulty to account for this, and perhaps thel'e four Verl'es. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.
