"Quid stutdiosa cohors operum struit? Hoc quoque curo.
Quis sibi res gestus Augusti scribere sumit?
Bella quis et paces longum diffundit in aevum?"
"What works is the learned staff composing?
This too I want to know. Who takes upon him to
record the exploits of Augustus? Who adown distant
ages makes known his deeds in war and peace?"
Horace, Epistles I, in, 6-8