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“The AU has got to play a critical role,” said Scopas Poggo, a professor at Ohio State University.

While he was outside, however, in a development that can be regarded either as divine intervention or poetic justice, the roof over the banqueting hall collapsed, crushing Scopas and all his guests to death.

Simonides was a poet for hire, who had been commissioned to sing an ode in celebration of some high-up or other—Cicero has it as a Thessalonian nobleman called Scopas, though Quintilian simply has it as an anonymous “pugilist” who’d just won a famous victory.

Nous savons que l'Apollon Cithar�de de Scopas �tait dans le temple d'Apollon Palatin, �lev� par Auguste; les m�dailles, Properce et Tibulle, nous apprennent que le dieu s'y voyait rev�tu d'une longue robe.

Nous ne pouvons donc h�siter � admettre que l'Apollon de la salle des Muses au Vatican a eu pour premier original l'Apollon de Scopas.