<P> A spelling convention of writing long vowels double (such as aa for long ā) is also associated with him, and is found in texts concurrent with his lifetime . </P> <P> Accius was politically conservative, and generally noted for his dignity and reserve . He did however believe that one with literary gifts, such as himself, ought to be accorded more respect than someone who, through no effort of their own, was merely born to nobility . He was, by some accounts, a self - important man, and some writers expressed a wry amusement at the larger - than - life statues of himself he had erected in the temple of the Muses . </P> <P> Atreus featured the line oderint dum metuant ("let them hate, so long as they fear"), later an infamous motto of Caligula . </P>

Latin quote let them hate as long as they fear