Attigit quoque poeticen, credimus, ne eius expers esset suavitatis. Namque versibus qui honore rerumque gestarum amplitudine ceteros populi Romani praestiterunt exposuit ita, ut sub singulorum imaginibus facta magistratusque eorum non amplius quaternis quinisque versibus descripserit; quod vix credendum sit tantas res tam breviter potuisse declarari.
He also dipped into poetry; in order, I suppose, to have a taste of its charm. For he celebrated in verse those men who in distinction and in the greatness of their exploits surpassed the rest of the Roman people, recording under the portrait of each of them his deeds and his honours in not more than four or five verses; this he did so well that it could hardly be believed that such important events could be described so briefly
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