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LXX. A private entertainment which he gave, commonly called the Supper of the Twelve Gods , and at which the guests were dressed in the habit of gods and goddesses, while he personated Apollo himself, afforded subject of much conversation, and was imputed to him not only by Antony in his letters, who likewise names all the parties concerned, but in the following well-known anonymous verses: Cum primum istorum conduxit mensa choragum, Sexque deos vidit Mallia, sexque deas Impia dum Phoebi Caesar mendacia ludit, Dum nova divorum coenat adulteria: Omnia se a terris tunc numina declinarunt: Fugit et auratos Jupiter ipse thronos.
Those words, then, as we have already observed, are to have the preference which sound agreeably; not such as are exquisitely melodious, like those of the Poets, but such as can be found to our purpose in common language. Qua Pontus Helles is rather beyond the mark: but in Auratos aries Colchorum,
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