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Minor Latin poets; with introductions and English translations

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TWO ELEGIES ON MAECENASof Caesar. Right soon may thine Empress Liviabe free from anxiety : let a son-in-hiw fulfil thebroken duties of him who is lost.'' When thouhast taken thy place, a god distinguished amonga line of deities, let Venus' own h<strong>and</strong> set thee in thepaternal bosom."''" Tiberius is the gre/ier : Agri-p^a,, the gener amissus. In 11B.C. Augustus had forced Tiberius to divorce VipsaniaAgrippina <strong>and</strong> marry his daughter Julia, the widow ofAgrippa. This marriage, it is hoped in the couplet 31-32,will both assure Livia of descendants through her own sonTiberius <strong>and</strong>, at the same time, strengthen dynastic prospectsby adding to the number of Augustus' gr<strong>and</strong>children, nowthat Agrippa is dead.* i.e. the bosom of Julius Caesar, Augustus' adoptivefather. The reference to ^'enus is appropriate, as the Juliangens claimed descent from her (Suet. Jul. 6).139

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