115. Claudian feels the honour like a man who deserved it
(in pranfat. Bell. Get.). The original inscription, on
marble, was found at Rome, in the fifteenth century, in the
house of Pomponius Laetus. The statue of a poet, far
superior to Claudian, should have been erected, during his
lifetime, by the men of letters, his countrymen and
contemporaries. It was a noble design.