"would you not have him wiser than I, who commands thirty legions?" Augustus wrote verses against Asinius Pollio, and "I," said Pollio, "say nothing, for it is not prudence to write in contest with him who has power to proscribe."
Baina, hasi naizenetik bukatzeko, Adriano enperadorea eztabaidan ari zelarik Favorino filosofoarekin hitz baten itzulpenari buruz, Favorinok aski laster utzi zion garaipena.