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Pierio . . . antro: figurative, of literary leisure. Pieria, in Thrace, was said to have been a haunt of the Muses. Cf. Herrick, 1124, 'After thy labour take thine ease,| Here with the sweet Pierides'; Pind. Pyth. 6. 49, ἐν μυχοῖσι Πιερίδων; Martial, 12.11.3, Pimpleo . . . antro. For Augustus' literary studies, cf. Suet. Aug.84, 85, and the lives of Horace and Vergil.


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