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C. Suetonius Tranquillus, Divus Augustus (ed. Alexander Thomson), chapter 68 (search)
enumerated in two verses by Ennius: Juno, Vesta, Minerva, Ceres, Diana, Venus, Mars; Mercurius, Jovus, Neptunus, Vulcanus, Apollo. and at which the guests were dressed in the habit of gods and goddesses, while he personated Apollo himself, afforded subject of much conversation, and was imputed to him not only by Antony in his letters, who likewise names all the parties concerned, but in the following well-known anonymous verses: Cum primum istorum conduxit mensa choragum, Sexque deos vidit Mallia, sexque deas Impia dum Phoebi Caesar mendacia ludit, Dum nova divorum coenat adulteria: Omnia se a terris tunc numina declinarunt: Fugit et auratos Jupiter ipse thronos. When Mallia late beheld, in mingled train, Twelve mortals ape twelve deities in vain, Caesar assumed what was Apollo's due, And wine and lust inflamed the motley crew. At the foul sight the gods avert their eyes, And from his throne great Jove indignant flies. What rendered this supper more obnoxious to public censure, was,