"_Regis ad Exemplum totus componitur Orbis_" (Vol. ii., p. 267.).--This
hexameter verse, which occurs in collections of Latin apophthegms, is
not to be found in this form, in any classical author. It has been
converted into a single proverbial verse, from the following passage of
Claudian:
"Componitur orbis
Regis ad exemplum: nec sic inflictere sensus
Humanos edicta valent, ut vita regentis."
_De IV. Consul. Honor_., 299.