How is Alexander Pope's "Epistle to Dr. Arbuthnot" a typical example of "Augustan" satire?

In a brief but helpful essay on “The Augustans” (published
in Webster’s New World Companion to English and American
Literature, edited by Arthur Pollard [New York: Popular Library, 1976]), A.
W. Bower outlines a number of characteristics of the “Augustan” verse written in the
closing years of the seventeenth century and the early years of the eighteenth.  A
number of these traits appear in Alexander Pope’s “Epistle to Dr. Arbuthnot,” including
the following:

• an emphasis on the
  virtues of “reason” (Bower 22): This trait is already implied by the
  implied condemnation of passion in lines
  5-6:

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Fire in each eye, and papers in each
hand,

They rave, recite, and madden round the
land.

• a
  tendency to see England as a “counterpart of the Roman state under the Emperor Augustus”
  (Bower 21): This trait is apparent, for instance, in Pope’s allusions to
  Roman culture and myths, such as the reference to the “Dog Star” in line 3 or the
  reference to a “chariot” in line
  10.

In addition, the poem is an
example of Augustan satire for the following reasons as
well:

• its use of invented names
  (such as “Cornus” in line 25 or “Pitholeon” in line
  51).


• its use of couplets and a generally
  iambic meter (throughout).


• a
  professed commitment to virtue (as when the speaker describes himself as
  a person “Who can’t be silent, and who will not lie” [line
  34]).


• a professed commitment to urbane
  decorum (as when the speaker, presented with examples of bad poetry, says
  “To laugh were want of goodness and of grace”
  [35]).


• a tendency to echo Roman writers,
  particularly Horace (as in line
  40).


• a tendency to refer to the names and
  actions of actual persons (such as the reference to “Curll” in line 53
  and the reference to “Lintot” in line
  61).


• allusions to classical literature in
  general (as in the reference to King Midas in line 69).
  


• a tendency to mock
  contemporary political personalities (as in the allusions to King George
  II, Queen Caroline, and one of their ministers in lines
  71-72).

These and various other traits help to
make Pope’s poem a typical example of Augustan satire.