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But he soon raised up his head, and taking off his gold chain, whereon dangled his own effigy, he hung it round my child's neck with these words: "Hocce tuce pulchritudim! et si favente Deo redux fuero victor, promissum carmen et praeterea duo oscula exspecto." Hereupon the Sheriff with his three men again came forward and bowed down to the ground before his Majesty.
Caesar awarded the prize to Syrus, saying to Laberius in an impromptu verse of polite condescension, "Favente tibime victus, Laberi, es a Syro." From this time the old knight surrendered the stage to his younger and more polished rival. Syrus vas a native of Antioch, and remarkable from his childhood for the beauty of his person and his sparkling wit, to which he owed his freedom.
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