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Wise and exquisite policy of my foes, 'Frustra Cassium amovisti, si gliscere et vigere Brutorum emulos passurus es.* But I have no time to lose: farewell, my friend; God bless you; you are saved from these storms; and even intolerance, which prevented the exercise of your genius, preserves you now from the danger of having applied that genius to the welfare of your country.
Wise and exquisite policy of my foes, /Frustra Cassium amovisti, si gliscere et vigere Brutorum emulos passurus es.* But I have no time to lose: farewell, my friend; God bless you; you are saved from these storms; and even intolerance, which prevented the exercise of your genius, preserves you now from the danger of having applied that genius to the welfare of your country.
As for Cassius Severus, he was contemporary with Horace, and was the same poet against whom he writes in his epodes under this title, In Cassium Severum, maledicum poctam perhaps intending to kill two crows, according to our proverb, with one stone, and revenge both himself and his emperor together.
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