[Footnote 74: This story is related by Hesychius, (de Viris
Illustribus,) Procopius, (Anecdot. c. 13,) and Suidas, (tom.
iii. p. 501.) Such flattery is incredible!
- Nihil est quod credere de se Non possit, cum laudatur Diis
aequa potestas. Fontenelle (tom. i. p. 32 - 39) has
ridiculed the impudence of the modest Virgil. But the same
Fontenelle places his king above the divine Augustus; and
the sage Boileau has not blushed to say, "Le destin a ses
yeux n'oseroit balancer" Yet neither Augustus nor Louis XIV.
were fools.]