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[12] inde nescio quid Athenium interrogans superiectum Paeonium compellatio Augusta praeteriit, casu an industria ignoro, quod cum turpiter Paeonius aegre tulisset, quod fuit turpius, compellato tacente respondit, subrisit Augustus, ut erat auctoritate servata, cum se communioni dedisset, ioci plenus, per quem cachinnum non minus obtigit Athenio vindictae, quam contigisset iniuriae, colligit itaque sese trebacissimus senex et, ut semper intrinsecus aestu pudoris excoquebatur, cur sibi Paeonius anteferretur: ‘non miror,’ inquit, ‘ Auguste, si mihi standi locum [p. 408] praeripere conetur, qui tibi invadere non erubescit loquendi.’
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