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To the said Claudian also, inquiring concerning his brother Quintilius, whom he proposed as a colleague with himself in the empire, happened the response following in the Sixth of the Aeneids Ostendent terris hunc tantum fata. Whom Fate let us see, And would no longer suffer him to be.
The necessities of the moment were thus satisfied without present or future danger; as respected the future, he knew or believed that Verus was marked out for early death; and would often say, in a strain of compliment somewhat disproportionate, applying to him the Virgilian lines on the hopeful and lamented Marcellus, "Ostendent terris hunc tantum fata, neque ultra Esse sinent."
Aen. 6, 870: Ostendent terris hunc tantum fata. XIV. Consularium. Cf. note on it, 8. Aulus Plautius. Ann. 13, 32; Dio. 60, 19. Ostorius Scapula. Ann. 12, 31-39. Proxima, sc. Romae. Veteranorum colonia. Camolodunum. Ann. 12, 32. Now Colchester. Dr. Et reges. Kings also, i.e. besides other means. Ut vetere, etc. So in the MSS. and earliest editions.
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