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Minuit praesentia famam.
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Presence diminishes fame.
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Claudian, De Bello Gildonico, 385.
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Wrongly attributed to Virgil in an epistle ascribed to Dante Alighieri, sometimes printed in his works (see Moore's Studies in Dante: Scripture and Classical Authors in Dante, p. 240). Paget Toynbee, in Dante Studies and Researches (1902), writes: "This attribution to Virgil of a passage from Claudian is one of several reasons for rejecting this letter [epistle] as spurious".

 
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