a Sicilian of great wealth, to whom Horace addressed the ode " Otium dives," &c., in
which the poet gently reprehends a too great desire for wealth in Grosphus. (Carm. 2.16.) In an epistle to Iccius, the factor or bailiff of M. Agrippa in Sicily,
Horace commends Grosphus to Iccius as a man whose requests might be safely granted, since he
would never ask any thing dishonorable. The turn of Horace's character of Grosphus resembles
Pope's praise of Cornbury,--
" Disdain whatever Cornbury disdains."
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