merit and willingly wreathe my hair with the Delphic laurel, Melpomene. Horace, Odes 3.xxx.14-16 and with begrudging admiration the word is used in association with Cleopatra , the great enemy of Augustus and Rome (who is likened to Cacus back in Book VIII of the Aeneid ): saevis Liburnis scilicet invidens