Get.) The original inscription, on marble, was found at Rome, in the fifteenth century, in the house of Pomponius Laetus.

The statue of a poet, far superior to Claudian, should have been erected, during his lifetime, by the men of letters, his countrymen and contemporaries.

It was a noble design.] [Footnote 116: See Epigram xxx.
Mallius indulget somno noctesque diesque: Insomnis Pharius sacra, profana, rapit.
Omnibus, hoc, Italae gentes, exposcite votis; Mallius ut vigilet, dormiat ut Pharius.
Hadrian was a Pharian, (of Alexandrian.) See his public life in Godefroy, Cod.Theodos.tom.vi.p.

364.

Mallius did not always sleep.
He composed some elegant dialogues on the Greek systems of natural philosophy, (Claud, in Mall.Theodor.Cons.