Il y avoit à _Rome_, du tems de l’Empereur _Auguste_, un pauvre Poëte _Grec_ qui de temps en temps, lors que l’Empereur sortoit du Palais, lui presentoit une épigramme Grecque, mais quoy que l’Empereur la prit, il ne luy donnoit pourtant jamais rien; au contraire, voulant un jour se moquer de lui, & le congedier, lors qu’il le vit venir pour presenter ses Vers, l’Empereur lui envoya une épigramme en _Grec_ de sa composition, & écrite de sa main; le Poëte la receut avec joye, la leut, & fit voir en la lisant par son Visage & par les gestes qu’elle lui plaisoit beaucoup: l’ayant leüe, il tira sa bourse, & s’approchant d’_Auguste_, il lui donna quelques Sols, lui disant, _prenez cét argent_ Cesar, _je vous le donne, non selon vôtre haute fortune, mais selon mon petit pouvoir, si j’en avois davantage ma liberalité seroit plus grande_; tout le monde se mit à rire, l’Empereur lui même plus que les autres, & lui fit donner cent mille écus. 25 Young _Scipio_ was at four and twenty Years of Age a Man of consummate Wisdom; and altho his warlike Atchievements terrified his Enemies, yet he made still greater Conquests by his Virtue than by his Valour. For as they brought to him the Wife of _Mando_ a _Spanish_ Prince, with two of her Nieces extream Beautiful, he sent them back with these fine Words, _That it not only became his own, and the_ Roman _Peoples integrity not to violate any thing that’s Sacred; but besides the regard he had for them, obliged him to do them Justice; since in their Misfortune they had neither forgot themselves, nor their Honour_. And having done the same to another _Spanish_ Prince, whose Wife, (a Woman still more accomplisht in her Beauty than the other) had been presented to him, he sent her back to her Husband with a great Sum of Money which was offered him for her Ransom. This Prince highly pleased with this Favour, proclaimed through all the Land, _That a God-like young_ Roman _was come into Spain, who made himself Master of all not so much by the Power of his Arms, as of his Virtue and obliging Nature_. 25