Nearly 40 years later, Octavian, now the emperor Augustus, found one of his grandsons reading a book by Cicero. Terrified, the boy tried to hide the book, but Augustus took it and read it for some moments. He then gave it back to the boy, saying, "He was a learned man, my child, a learned man and a lover of his country." (Perrin's translation)
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