Clario Deo . There was a celebrated oracle of the Clarian Apollo, near Colophon, in Asia Minor, which Germanicus himself once consulted. Tac. Annal. xii. 22. Germanicus had pleaded causes publicly with success, Suet. Cal. 4. Dion. 56. 26. He had written Greek comedies, Suet, ut sup . He also made a version of Aratus which is still extant, Totus annus , i. e. the whole poem on the year.

Sed nunc genera ipsa lectionum, quae praecipue convenire intendentibus ut oratores fiant existimem, persequar. |46| Igitur, ut Aratus ab Iove incipiendum putat, ita nos rite coepturi ab HOMERO videmur. Hunc nemo in magnis rebus sublimitate, in parvis proprietate superaverit.