redarguit

Updated: May 6, 2025

By the words "under colour of that law" he insinuates that Augustus caused it to be executed on pretence of those libels which were written by Cassius Severus against the nobility, but in truth to save himself from such defamatory verses. Suetonius likewise makes mention of it thus: Sparsos de se in curia famosos libellos, nec exparit, et magna cura redarguit.

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