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First Bunker Hill Oration. $ une vomme - Edited by Dean Thomas Arkle Clark, University of Illinois. OTHERS IN PREPARATION. CHARLES SCRIBNER'S SONS Lord Macaulay From an engraving made aboul L848 Zbc Sctibnet j&nglteb Glassies THOMAS BABINGTON MACAULAY M LAYS OF ANCIENT ROME EDITED WITH INTRODUCTION AND NOTES BY ARTHUR BEATTY, Ph.D. ASSISTANT PROFESSOR OF ENGLISH, UNIVERSITY OF WISCONSIN NEW YORK CHARLES SCRIBNER'S SONS 1912 uiyvT?i€t.s, di&KTopos 'ApyeKpovT-rjs, ewTaTvXos 6t)/St7, 'EX^s Zvck 7ivk6/xoio. Thus, too, in our own national songs, Douglas is almost always the doughty Douglas; England is merry England; all the gold is red; and all the ladies are gay. NOTES 91 The principal distinction between the lay of Horatius and the lay of the Lake Regillus is, that the former is meant to be purely Roman, while the latter, though national in its general spirit, has a slight tincture of Greek learning and of Greek super- stition. The story of the Tarquins, as it has come down to us, appears to have been compiled from the works of several popu- lar poets; and one, at least, of those poets appears to have visited the Greek colonies in Italy, if not Greece itself, and to have had some acquaintance with the works of Homer and Herodotus. Many of the most striking adventures of the house of Tarquin, before Lucretia makes her appearance, have a Greek character. The Tarquins themselves are represented as Corinthian nobles of the great house of the Bacchiadse, driven from their country by the tyranny of that Cypselus, the tale of whose strange escape Herodotus has related with incomparable simplicity and liveliness. Livy and Dionysius tell us that, when Tarquin the Proud was asked what was the best mode of governing a conquered city, he replied only by beating down with his staff all the tallest poppies in his garden. This is ex- actly what Herodotus, in the passage to which reference has already been made, relates of the counsel given to Periander, the son of Cypselus. The stratagem by which the town of Gabii is brought under the power of the Tarquins is, again, obviously copied from Herodotus. The embassy of the young Tarquins to the oracle at Delphi is just such a story as would be told by a poet whose head was full of the Greek mythology; and the ambiguous answer returned by Apollo is in the exact style of the prophecies which, according to Herodotus, lured Crcesus to destruction. Then the character of the narrative changes. From the first mention of Lucretia to the retreat of Porsena noth- ing seems to be borrowed from foreign sources. The villany of Sextus, the suicide of his victim, the revolution, the death of the sons of Brutus, the defence of the bridge, Mucius burning his hand, Clcelia swimming through Tiber, seem to be all strictly Roman. But when we have done with the Tuscan war, and enter upon the war with the Latines, we are again struck by the Greek air of the story. The Battle of the Lake Regillus is in all respects a Homeric battle, except that the combatants ride astride on their horses, instead of driving chariots. The mass of fighting men is hardly mentioned. The leaders single each other out, and engage hand to hand. The great object of the warriors on both sides is, as in the Iliad, to obtain posses- 92 LAYS OF ANCIENT ROME sion of the spoils and bodies of the slain; and several circum- stances are related which forcibly remind us of the great slaughter round the corpses of Sarpedon and Patroclus. . . . In the following poem, therefore, images and incidents have been borrowed, not merely without scruple, but on principle, from the incomparable battle-pieces of Homer. The popular belief at Rome, from an early period, seems to have been that the event of the great day of Regillus was de- cided by supernatural agency. Castor and Pollux, it was said, had fought, armed and mounted, at the head of the legions of the commonwealth, and had afterward carried the news of the victory with incredible speed to the city. The well in the Forum at which they had alighted was pointed out. Near the well rose their ancient temple. A great festival was kept to their honor on the Ides of Quintilis, supposed to be the anniversary of the battle; and on that day sumptuous sacrifices were offered to them at the public charge. One spot on the margin of Lake Regillus was regarded during many ages with superstitious awe. A mark, resembling in shape a horse's hoof, was discernible in the volcanic rock; and this mark was believed to have been made by one of the celestial chargers. How the legend originated cannot now be ascertained: but we may easily imagine several ways in which it might have orig- inated; nor is it at all necessary to suppose, with Julius Fron- tinus, that two young men were dressed up by the Dictator to personate the sons of Leda. It is probable that Livy is correct when he says that the Roman general, in the hour of peril, vowed a temple to Castor. If so, nothing could be more natural than that the multitude should ascribe the victory to the favor of the Twin Gods. When such was the prevailing sentiment, any man who chose to declare that, in the midst of the confusion and slaughter, he had seen two godlike forms on white horses scattering the Latines, would find ready credence. We know, indeed, that, in modern times, a very similar story actually found credence among a people much more civilized than the Romans of the fifth century before Christ. A chaplain of Cortes, writing about thirty years after the conquest of Mexico, in an age of printing presses, libraries, universities, scholars, lo- gicians, jurists, and statesmen, had the face to assert that, in one engagement against the Indians, Saint James had appeared on a gray horse at the head of the Castilian adventurers. Many of those adventurers were living when this lie was printed. NOTES 93 One of them, honest Bernal Diaz, wrote an account of the expe- dition. He had the evidence of his own senses against the legend; but he seems to have distrusted even the evidence of his own senses. He says that he was in the battle, and that he saw a gray horse with a man on his back, but that the man was, to his thinking, Francesco de Morla, and not the ever- blessed apostle Saint James. "Nevertheless," Bernal adds, " it may be that the person on the gray horse was the glorious apostle Saint James, and that I, sinner that I am, was un- worthy to see him." The Romans of the age of Cincinnatus were probably quite as credulous as the Spanish subjects of Charles the Fifth. It is therefore conceivable that the appear- ance of Castor and Pollux may have become an article of faith before the generation which had fought at Regillus had passed away. Nor could anything be more natural than that the poets of the next age should embellish this story, and make the ce- lestial horsemen bear the tidings of victory to Rome. Many years after the temple of the Twin Gods had been built in the Forum, an important addition was made to the ceremonial by which the state annually testified its gratitude for their protection. Quintus Fabius and Publius Decius were elected Censors at a momentous crisis. It had become abso- lutely necessary that the classification of the citizens should be revised. On that classification depended the distribution of political power. Party-spirit ran high; and the republic seemed to be in danger of falling under the dominion either of a narrow oligarchy or of an ignorant and headstrong rabble. Under such circumstances, the most illustrious patrician and the most illustrious plebeian of the age were entrusted with the office of arbitrating between the angry factions; and they performed their arduous task to the satisfaction of all honest and reason- able men. One of their reforms was a remodelling of the equestrian order; and, having effected this reform, they determined to give to their work a sanction derived from religion. In the chival- rous societies of modern times, societies which have much more than may at first sight appear in common with the equestrian order of Rome, it has been usual to invoke the special protec- tion of some Saint, and to observe his day with peculiar solem- nity. Thus the Companions of the Garter wear the image of Saint George depending from their collars, and meet, on great occasions, in Saint George's Chapel. Thus, when Lewis the 94 LAYS OF ANCIENT ROME Fourteenth instituted a new order of chivalry for the rewarding of military merit, he commended it to the favor of his own glorified ancestor and patron, and decreed that all the members of the fraternity should meet at the royal palace on the feast of Saint Lewis, should attend the king to chapel, should hear mass, and should subsequently hold their great annual assem- bly. There is a considerable resemblance between this rule of the order of Saint Lewis and the rule which Fabius and Decius made respecting the Roman knights. It was ordained that a grand muster and inspection of the equestrian body should be part of the ceremonial performed, on the anniversary of the battle of Regillus, in honor of Castor and Pollux, the two equestrian Gods. All the knights, clad in purple and crowned with olive, were to meet at a temple of Mars in the suburbs. Thence they were to ride in state to the Forum, where the temple of the Twins stood. This pageant was, during several centuries, considered as one of the most splendid sights of Rome. In the time of Dionysius the cavalcade sometimes consisted of five thousand horsemen, all persons of fair repute and easy fortune. There can be no doubt that the Censors who instituted this august ceremony acted in concert with the Pontiffs to whom, by the constitution of Rome, the superintendence of the public worship belonged; and it is probable that those high religious functionaries were, as usual, fortunate enough to find in their books or traditions some warrant for the innovation. The following poem is supposed to have been made for this great occasion. Songs, we know, were chanted at the religious festivals of Rome from an early period; indeed from so early a period, that some of the sacred verses were popularly ascribed to Numa, and were utterly unintelligible in the age of Augustus. In the Second Punic War a great feast was held in honor of Juno, and a song was sung in her praise. This song was extant when Livy wrote; and, though exceedingly rugged and uncouth, seemed to him not wholly destitute of merit. A song, as we learn from Horace, was part of the established ritual at the great Secular Jubilee. It is therefore likely that the Censors and Pon- tiffs, when they had resolved to add a grand procession of knights to the other solemnities annually performed on the Ides of Quintilis, would call in the aid of a poet. Such a poet would naturally take for his subject the battle of Regillus, the appear- ance of the Twin Gods, and the institution of their festival. He would find abundant materials in the ballads of his prede- NOTES 95 cessors; and he would make free use of the scanty stock of Greek learning which he had himself acquired. He would prob- ably introduce some wise and holy Pontiff enjoining the mag- nificent ceremonial, which, after a long interval, had at length been adopted. If the poem succeeded, many persons would commit it to memory. Parts of it would be sung to the pipe at banquets. It would be peculiarly interesting to the great Posthumian House, which numbered among its many images that of the Dictator Aulus, the hero of Regillus. The orator who, in the following generation, pronounced the funeral pane- gyric over the remains of Lucius Posthumius Megellus, thrice Consul, would borrow largely from the lay; and thus some passages, much disfigured, would probably find their way into the chronicles which were afterward in the hands of Dionysius and Livy. Antiquaries differ widely as to the situation of the field of battle. The opinion of those who suppose that the armies met near Cornufelle, between Frascati and the Monte Porzio, is at least plausible, and has been followed in the poem. As to the details of the battle, it has not been thought de- sirable to adhere minutely to the accounts which have come down to us. Those accounts, indeed, differ widely from each other, and, in all probability, differ as widely from the ancient poem from which they were originally derived. It is unnecessary to point out the obvious imitations of the Iliad, which have been purposely introduced. NOTES This Lay narrates the last battle in the struggle between Rome and her powerful rival Latium. The favor of heaven was shown to Rome by the intervention in her behalf of Castor and Pollux, who caused the defeat of the Latins and carried the news of the glorious victory to Rome. This battle was fought in the year of the city 255 or 258. Niebuhr, from whom Ma- caulay borrowed so much, says of this battle: / " The battle of Lake Regillus, as described by Livy, is not an ^engagement between two armies; it is a conflict of heroes like those in the Iliad. All the leaders encounter hand to hand, and by them the victory is thrown now into one scale, now into the other; while the troops fight without any effect." * 1 History of Rome, I, 546-547. 96 LAYS OF ANCIENT ROME This is the spirit in which Macaulay conceives the story. He supposes the Lay to be sung on the anniversary of the battle, in honor of Castor and Pollux, in the year of the city 451, or B. C. 302. Title. — Lake Regillus. A small lake in Latium, at the foot of the Tuscan hills. — Ides of Quintilis. July 15. Line 2. — lictors. Attendants on a magistrate, as a token of official dignity. They carried rods and axes as a sign of their authority. 3. — Knights. See Macaulay's Preface to the poem. 7. — Castor in the Forum. The temple of Castor. 13. — Yellow River. The Tiber. It is called yellow on account of its yellow sands. 14. — Sacred Hill. A hill three miles from Rome on the river Anio, to which the plebeians repaired in their struggle for liberty. 15. — Ides of Quintilis. July 15, See note on the Title. 17. — Martian Kalends. The first of March. 18. — December's Nones. December the fifth. 20. — whitest. Most noted. 25. — Parthenius. A mountain range in Arcadia. 27. — Cirrha . . . Adria. Cirrha, a town in Phocis in Greece. Adria is the poetical form of Adriatic. 28. — Apennine. The well-known range of mountains in Etruria. 31-32. — Lacedaemon . . . kings. Sparta, one of whose kings, Tyndareus, was the father of Castor and Pollux. The Heraclidae established the system of dual kingship, or govern- ment by two kings. 34. — Porcian. Cato the Censor, who belonged to the Porcian family, was born in Tusculum. 35. — Tusculum. An ancient city of Latium situated in the Alban Hills. 42. — Come. The Corniculani mountains. 43. — Fair Fount. Apparently a name invented by Macaulay. 63-64. — Thirty Cities . . . Rome. According to Pliny, there were thirty cities, or communities, in Latium. 81. — Virginius. Who, with his fellow-consul Aulus, destroyed Camerium, B. C. 502. 83-84. — Aulus . . . Posthumian. See note to line 81. NOTES 97 86. — Gabii. A city of Latium, about twelve miles from Rome. 119. — Conscript Fathers. The members of the Patricians, or nobles, whose names were written on the roll of the Senate. 125. — Camerium. An ancient town of Latium. 132. — axes. See note to line 2. 165. — Setia. A city of Latium, on the southern slope of the Volscian mountains. 166. — Norba. — A city of Latium, about midway between Cora and Setia. See notes to lines 165 and 183. 169. — Witch's Fortress. Circeii, near the promontory of that name on the coast of Latium. It was so called because it was said to be the haunt of the witch Circe after her flight from Greece. 171. — still glassy lake. Lake Nemus, famous because of its beauty, and because of the temple of Venus on its shore. 172. — Aricia. A famous city of Latium, situated on the Appian Way, at the foot of the Alban Mount. 173, ff. — A tradition variously told, but of which the sub- stance is that a runaway slave became the priest by slaying his predecessor, and remained priest of the grove and shrine until he himself was slain. 177. — Ufens. A river of Latium, rising at the foot of the Vol- scian mountains. It flows through the Pontine marshes. Hence its banks are "drear," and haunted by flights of "marsh-fowl." 183. — Cora. A city of Latium, situated on the Appian Way, now Cori. 185. — Laurentian. Of or belonging to Laurentum, a city of Latium on the sea-coast. 187. — Anio. A famous river of Latium, and an important tributary of the Tiber. 190. — Velitrae. A city of Latium, situated on the southern slope of the Alban hills. 201. — land of sunrise. In the East, as in Syria. 202. — By Syria's dark-browed daughters. The choicest purple garments came from Tyre in Syria. 203. — Carthage. The African city, which was the most fa- mous rival of Rome. 205. — Lavinium. A city near the sea, about seventeen miles south of Rome. 209-10. — false Sextus . . . deed of shame. Almost a repe- tition of lines 199-200 of Horatius. In this stanza are given the visions of fear which possessed "false Sextus" because of the "deed of shame" which he committed against Lucretia. 98 LAYS OF ANCIENT ROME 233. — Tibur . . . Pedum. The people of two ancient towns in Latium. 235. — Ferentinum. A small town in Latium. It was so solitary that the name was used to signify a solitary country. 236. — Gabii. A small town of Latium, founded by the Sicilians. 237. — Volscian. The most important tribe in Latium. 241. — Mount Soracte. A high mountain in Etruria, often spoken of in Latin literature, and famous because it is mentioned by Horace in a famous Ode (Ode 9, Book I). 250. — Apulian. Apulia was a province in lower Italy. 263. — Pomptine. The Pontine marshes extended over the low-lying portions of Latium. 278. — Digentian. The Digentia was a small stream which flowed past Horace's villa and fell into Anio river. 280. — Bandusia. A fountain celebrated by Horace in one of his famous Odes (Ode 3, Book III). 288. — Fidenae. An ancient city of Latium near Rome. 294. — Calabrian. Calabria is a province in the south of Italy. 299. — Lavinian. A city of Latium, near the sea-coast. 331-332. — Men say, etc. A heroic incident perhaps borrowed from the English ballad, as for instance, Johnny Armstrong, who fights even after his legs are hewn to the knees. 362. — Velian. An elevated part of the Palatine Hill in Rome. 399. — play the men. Show yourselves to be brave men. 419. — Cossus. A famous Roman name. 459-460. — Beneath . . . well. This, of course, refers to the noble story, as Macaulay tells it in Horatius. 466. — Crest of Flame. The shining crest of the Latin hero. 480. — Aufidus . . . Po. This means the whole region of Central Italy, as these rivers enclose that territory on the south and north, respectively. 603. — Samothracia. An island near the coast of Thrace, in Greece. 604. — Cyrene. An important city in north Africa. 605. — Tarentum. A powerful city in Lower Italy. 607. — Syracuse. A famous city in Sicily. 609. — Eurotas. This is the same thing as saying that Sparta was their native home. Sparta was situated on the river Eu- rotas. 619. — Ardea. A city of Latium. NOTES 99 623.— Vesta. The goddess of the hearth and its fire; hence the goddess of the household. 624 —Golden Shield. The divine shield of Mars, which, ac- cording to the Roman tradition, fell from heaven. On its pres- ervation the safety of the city depended. 645-646 — Po . . . Celtic. The region of the Po was occu- pied by people of Celtic blood. Pliny says that the name is Celtic. , . . « 648.— Adrian main. The Adriatic Sea. 649 —Sire Quirinus. The name of Romulus after his dein- Ca 6 1 60.'— Lanuvium. A town in Latium near the Appian Way, twenty miles from Rome. 661.— Nomentum. A Sabine city, about fourteen miles from 6*73 — Arpinum. A famous Volscian city, the birthplace of ("Mppro 676.— Anxur. A city of Latium, near the sea. It was known to the Romans by the name of Tarracina. 679.— Laurentum. See note to line 185. 690.— Eastern Gate. That is, the eastern gate of the city ot Rome. -r, 697.— Sergius, the High Pontiff. The Roman term was Pon- tifex Maximus. _ . ,. 721— great Asylum. A place of refuge on the Capitohne Hill, where fugitives could find safety, said to have been opened bv Romulus to attract population to the city. 747.— the well. The Pool, or Lake, of Juturna, situated be- tween the temple of Vesta and the temple of Castor. 760 —Dorians. An important Greek tribe of Lacedaemon, who conquered the whole Peloponnesus, including Sparta. 774.— stately dome. The temple of Castor and Pollux, bee note on line 7. VIRGINIA macaulat's preface A collection consisting exclusively of war-songs would give an imperfect, or rather an erroneous, notion of the spirit ot tne old Latin ballads. The Patricians, during more than a century after the expulsion of the Kings, held all the high military com- 100 LAYS OF ANCIENT ROME mands. A Plebeian, even though, like Lucius Siccius, he were distinguished by his valor and knowledge of war, could serve only in subordinate posts. A minstrel, therefore, who wished to celebrate the early triumphs of his country, could hardly take any but Patricians for his heroes. The warriors who are mentioned in the two preceding lays, Horatius, Lartius, Her- minius, Aulus Posthumius, iEbutius Elva, Sempronius Atra- tinus, Valerius Poplicola, were all members of the dominant order; and a poet who was singing their praises, whatever his own political opinions might be, would naturally abstain from insulting the class to which they belonged, and from reflecting on the system which had placed such men at the head of the legions of the Commonwealth. But there was a class of compositions in which the great families were by no means so courteously treated. No parts of early Roman history are richer with poetical coloring than those which relate to the long contest between the privileged houses and the commonalty. The population of Rome was, from a very early period, divided into hereditary castes, which, indeed, readily united to repel foreign enemies, but which re- garded each other, during many years, with bitter animosity. Between those castes there was a barrier hardly less strong than that which, at Venice, parted the members of the Great Coun- cil from their countrymen. In some respects, indeed, the line which separated an Icilius or a Duilius from a Posthumius or a Fabius was even more deeply marked than that which sep- arated the rower of a gondola from a Contarini or a Morosini. At Venice the distinction was merely civil. At Rome it was both civil and religious. Among the grievances under which the Plebeians suffered, three were felt as peculiarly severe. They were excluded from the highest magistracies, they were excluded from all share in the public lands; and they were ground down to the dust by partial and barbarous legislation touching pecuniary contracts. The ruling class in Rome was a monied class; and it made and administered the laws with a view solely to its own interest. Thus the relation between lender and borrower was mixed up with the relation between sovereign and subject. The great men held a large portion of the community in dependence by means of advances at enor- mous usury. The law of debt, framed by creditors, and for the protection of creditors, was the most horrible that has ever been known among men. The liberty, and even the life, of the NOTES 101 insolvent were at the mercy of the Patrician money-lenders. Children often became slaves in consequence of the misfortunes of their parents. The debtor was imprisoned, not in a public gaol under the care of impartial public functionaries but in a private workhouse belonging to the creditor. Frightful stories were told respecting these dungeons. It was said that torture and brutal violation were common; that tight stocks, heavy chains, scanty measures of food, were used to punish wretches guilty of nothing but poverty; and that brave soldiers, whose breasts were covered with honorable scars, were often marked still more deeply on the back by the scourges of high-born i miliars The Plebeians were, however, not wholly without constitu- tional rights. From an early period they had been admitted to some share of political power. They were enrolled each in his century, and were allowed a share, considerable though not proportioned to their numerical strength, in the disposal ol those high dignities from which they were themselves excluded Thus their position bore some resemblance to that of the Irish Catholics during the interval between the year 1792 and the vear 1829. The Plebeians had also the privilege of annually appointing officers, named Tribunes, who had no active share in the government of the Commonwealth, but who, by degrees, acquired a power formidable even to the ablest and most reso- lute Consuls and Dictators. The person of the Tribune was inviolable; and though he could directly effect little, he could obstruct everything. During more than a century after the institution of the lrib- uneship, the Commons struggled manfully for the removal of the grievances under which they labored; and, in spite ^ ol many checks and reverses, succeeded in wringing concession after concession from the stubborn aristocracy. At length in the year of the city 378, both parties mustered their whole strength for their last and most desperate conflict. The pop- ular and active Tribune, Caius Licinius, proposed the three memorable laws which are called by his name, and which were intended to redress the three great evils of which the Plebeians complained. He was supported with eminent ability and firm- ness by his colleague, Lucius Sextius. The struggle appears to have been the fiercest that ever in any community terminated without an appeal to arms. If such a contest had raged in any Greek city, the streets would have run with blood. But, even 102 LAYS OF ANCIENT ROME in the paroxysms of faction, the Roman retained his gravity, his respect for law, and his tenderness for the lives of his fellow- citizens. Year after year Licinius and Sextius were re-elected Tribunes. Year after year, if the narrative which has come down to us is to be trusted, they continued to exert, to the full extent, their power of stopping the whole machine of govern- ment. No curule magistrates could be chosen; no military muster could be held. We know too little of the state of Rome in those days to be able to conjecture how, during that long anarchy, the peace was kept, and ordinary justice administered between man and man. The animosity of both parties rose to the greatest height. The excitement, we may well suppose, would have been peculiarly intense at the annual election of Tribunes. On such occasions there can be little doubt that the great families did all that could be done, by threats and caresses, to break the union of the Plebeians. That union, how- ever, proved indissoluble. At length the good cause triumphed. The Licinian laws were carried. Lucius Sextius was the first Plebeian Consul, Caius Licinius the third. The results of this great change were singularly happy and glorious. Two centuries of prosperity, harmony, and victory followed the reconciliation of the orders. Men who remem- bered Rome engaged in waging petty wars almost within sight of the Capitol lived to see her the mistress of Italy. While the disabilities of the Plebeians continued, she was scarcely able to maintain her ground against the Volscians and Her- nicans. When those disabilities were removed, she rapidly be- came more than a match for Carthage and Macedon. During the great Licinian contest the Plebeian poets were, doubtless, not silent. Even in modern times songs have been by no means without influence on public affairs; and we may therefore infer that, in a society where printing was unknown, and where books were rare, a pathetic or humorous party-ballad must have produced effects such as we can but faintly conceive. It is certain that satirical poems were common at Rome from a very early period. The rustics, who lived at a distance from the seat of government, and took little part in the strife of fac- tions, gave vent to their petty local animosities in coarse Fes- cennine verse. The lampoons of the city were doubtless of a higher order; and their sting was early felt by the nobility. For in the Twelve Tables, long before the time of the Licinian laws, a severe punishment was denounced against the citizen NOTES 103 who should compose or recite verses reflecting on another. Satire is, indeed, the only sort of composition in which the Latin poets, whose works have come down to us, were not mere imi- tators of foreign models; and it is therefore the only sort of composition in which they have never been rivalled. It was not, like their tragedy, their comedy, their epic and lyric poetry, a hothouse plant which, in return for assiduous and skilful cult- ure, gave only scanty and sickly fruits. It was hardy and full of sap; and in all the various juices which it yielded might be distinguished the flavor of the Ausonian soil. "Satire," says Quinctilian, with just pride, "is all our own." Satire sprang, in truth, naturally from the constitution of the Roman govern- ment and from the spirit of the Roman people; and, though at length subjected to metrical rules derived from Greece, retained to the last an essentially Roman character. Lucilius was the earliest satirist whose works were held in esteem under the Caesars. But many years before Lucilius was born, Naevius had been flung into a dungeon, and guarded there with circum- stances of unusual rigor, on account of the bitter lines in which he had attacked the great Caecilian family. The genius and spirit of the Roman satirist survived the liberty of their country, and were not extinguished by the cruel despotism of the Julian and Flavian Emperors. The great poet who told the story of Domitian's turbot was the legitimate successor of those for- gotten minstrels whose songs animated the factions of the in- fant Republic. These minstrels, as Niebuhr has remarked, appear to have generally taken the popular side. We can hardly be mistaken in supposing that, at the great crisis of the civil conflict, they employed themselves in versifying all the most powerful and virulent speeches of the Tribunes, and in heaping abuse on the leaders of the aristocracy. Every personal defect, every do- mestic scandal, every tradition dishonorable to a noble house, would be sought out, brought into notice, and exaggerated. The illustrious head of the aristocratical party, Marcus Furius Camillus, might perhaps be, in some measure, protected by his venerable age and by the memory of his great services to the State. But Appius Claudius Crassus enj oyed no such immunity. He was descended from a long line of ancestors distinguished by their haughty demeanor, and by the inflexibility with which they had withstood all the demands of the Plebeian order. While the political conduct and the deportment of the Claudian nobles 104 LAYS OF ANCIENT ROME drew upon them the fiercest public hatred, they were accused of wanting, if any credit is due to the early history of Rome, a class of qualities which, in the military commonwealth, is suffi- cient to cover a multitude of offences. The chiefs of the family appear to have been eloquent, versed in civil business, and learned after the fashion of their age; but in war they were not distinguished by skill or valor. Some of them, as if con- scious where their weakness lay, had, when filling the highest magistracies, taken internal administration as their department of public business, and left the military command to their col- leagues. 1 One of them had been intrusted with an army, and had failed ignominiously. 2 None of them had been honored with a triumph. None of them had achieved any martial ex- ploit, such as those by which Lucius Quinctius Cincinnatus, Titus Quinctius Capitolinus, Aulus Cornelius Cossus, and, above all, the great Camillus, had extorted the reluctant esteem of the multitude. During the Licinian conflict, Appius Claudius Crassus signalized himself by the ability and severity with which he harangued against the two great agitators. He would nat- urally, therefore, be the favorite mark of the Plebeian satirists; nor would they have been at a loss to find a point on which he was open to attack. His grandfather, called, like himself, Appius Claudius, had left a name as much detested as that of Sextus Tarquinius. This elder Appius had been Consul more than seventy years before the introduction of the Licinian laws. By availing him- self of a singular crisis in public feeling, he had obtained the consent of the Commons to the abolition of the Tribuneship, and had been the chief of that Council of Ten to which the whole direction of the State had been committed. In a few months his administration had become universally odious. It had been swept away by an irresistible outbreak of popular fury; and its memory was still held in abhorrence by the whole city. The immediate cause of the downfall of this execrable govern- ment was said to have been an attempt made by Appius Clau- dius upon the chastity of a beautiful young girl of humble birth. The story ran that the Decemvir, unable to succeed by bribes and solicitations, resorted to an outrageous act of tyranny. A vile dependent of the Claudian house laid claim to the damsel as his slave. The cause was brought before the tribunal of 1 In the years of the city 260, 304, and 330. 2 In the year of the city 280 NOTES 105 Appius. The wicked magistrate, in defiance of the clearest proofs, gave judgment for the claimant. But the girl's father, a brave soldier, saved her from servitude and dishonor by stabbing her to the heart in the sight of the whole Forum. That blow was the signal for a general explosion. Camp and city rose at once; the Ten were pulled down; the Tribuneship was re-established; and Appius escaped the hands of the execu- tioner only by a voluntary death. It can hardly be doubted that a story so admirably adapted to the purposes both of the poet and of the demagogue would be eagerly seized upon by minstrels burning with hatred against the Patrician order, against the Claudian house, and especially against the grandson and namesake of the infamous Decemvir. In order that the reader may judge fairly of these fragments of the lay of Virginia, he must imagine himself a Plebeian who has just voted for the re-election of Sextius and Licinius. All the power of the Patricians has been exerted to throw out the two great champions of the Commons. Every Posthumius, iEmilius, and Cornelius has used his influence to the utmost. Debtors have been let out of the workhouses on condition of voting against the men of the people : clients have been posted to hiss and interrupt the favorite candidates: Appius Claudius Crassus has spoken with more than his usual eloquence and asperity: all has been in vain; Licinius and Sextius have a fifth time carried all the tribes: work is suspended: the booths are closed : the Plebeians bear on their shoulders the two champions of liberty through the Forum. Just at this moment it is an- nounced that a popular poet, a zealous adherent of the Trib- unes, has made a new song which will cut the Claudian nobles to the heart. The crowd gathers round him, and calls on him to recite it. He takes his stand on the spot where, according to tradition, Virginia, more than seventy years ago, was seized by the pandar of Appius, and he begins his story. NOTES This Lay deals with the wicked deed of Appius Claudius Crassus. The events with which it deals led to the re-establish- ment of the Tribuneship, and after the repeated election of Sex- tius and Licinius as Tribunes, or representatives of the common people, the popular cause triumphed in the passing of the Li- cinian laws, which secured the rights of the common people. 106 LAYS OF ANCIENT ROME The long line in which Virginia is written may be reduced to the line of the other Lays by the simple process of dividing each one in the middle. Title — Fragments. The lay purports to be only fragments. The breaks in the text and the apparent incompleteness at the end are indications by Macaulay that this is but a series of frag- ments. —Year of the City CCCLXXXH. B. C. 371. Lines 4-6. — Grecian fable, etc. This probably refers to a story of Dionysus, told in the Homeric Hymn to Dionysus, maids with snaky tresses. The Furies, sailors turned to swine. Circe in Homer's Odyssey, turned her victims to swine. 10. — wicked Ten. The Council of Ten, which was established after the abolition of the Tribuneship, by Appius Claudius, grandfather of the Appius Claudius of the Lay. 14. — Twelve axes. That is, twelve lictors bearing rods and axes as a sign of their authority. 20. — Marcus. See Macaulay's Preface to the poem, where he is called "a vile dependent of the Claudian house." 24. — Licinius. See Macaulay's Preface to the poem. Li- cinius and Sextius were Tribunes who maintained the rights of the common people. 35. — Sacred Street. The famous Via Sacra, in Rome. 36. — She warbled gaily, etc. Macaulay represents Virginia as singing " the good old song" of the rape of Lucrece, or Lucretia. 46. — Seven Hills. Rome was built on seven hills. 53. — tablets. The waxen writing-tablets used by the school children of Rome. 63-66. — Crispus, Hanno, Muraena, Volero. Macaulay gives names to the leading figures in the crowd, for the sake of vivid- ness. Flesher, butcher, a term still used in Scotland. 64. — Punic. Carthaginian, or from Carthage. 83. — Sextius. See note to line 24 and Macaulay's Preface to the poem. 87. — Icilius. The young man to whom Virginia was betrothed. 95. — Servius. Servius Tullius, sixth king of Rome, a tra- ditional reformer of the constitution. 97. — false sons. The two sons of Brutus who headed a con- spiracy and were beheaded by order of their father. 98. — Scaevola. Mucius Scaevola went to the Etruscan camp to kill Lars Porsena. He was discovered and held his right NOTES 107 hand in the fire to show that he was not dismayed. Hence he was called Scaevola or "Left-handed." 104. — Marcian fury. This refers to the banishment of Corio- lanus, who joined the Volscians to humble the city. — Fabian pride. The soldiers of Caeso Fabius refused to obey his orders and thereby deprived him of a victory. 105. — Quinctius. He was banished from Rome by the com- mon people. 106. — Claudius . . . fasces. Claudius was mobbed in the streets of Rome. The fasces are the rods and axes of the lictors. 115. — fillets. Bands worn on the hair by the priests. — purple gown. The purple gown was worn by the consul and knights on public occasions. 116. — curule chair. The chair of state. 132. — cars. The chariots, in which noble Romans rode in triumphs. 133. — Corinthian mirrors. Corinth was noted for its luxuries. A mirror was a luxury to an early Roman. 134. — Capuan odors . . . Spanish gold. The city of Capua was celebrated for its luxurious mode of life. The mines of Spain were famous for their precious metals. 150. — whittle. A large butcher's knife, or cleaver. 228. — Pincian Hill . . . Latin Gate. The North and South- east gates, respectively. 249. — Caius of Corioli. Better known as Coriolanus. 251. — Furius. His full name was Marcus Furius of Tuscu- lum. He freed Rome from the invasions of the Gauls. 257-8. — Cossus . . . Fabius. The names of families famous for their bravery. 277. — Calabrian. Calabria is a region in the southern end of Italy. 278. — Thunder-Cape. Acroceraunia, a rocky promontory on the coast of Greece opposite the Italian city of Brundusium, or Brindisi. THE PROPHECY OF CAPYS macaulay's preface It can hardly be necessary to remind any reader that, accord- ing to the popular tradition, Romulus, after he had slain his grand-uncle Amulius, and restored his grandfather Numitor, determined to quit Alba, the hereditary domain of the Sylvian 108 LAYS OF ANCIENT ROME princes, and to found a new city. The Gods, it was added, vouchsafed the clearest signs of the favor with which they re- garded the enterprise, and of the high destinies reserved for the young colony. This event was likely to be a favorite theme of the old Latin minstrels. They would naturally attribute the project of Rom- ulus to some divine intimation of the power and prosperity which it was decreed that his city should attain. They would probably introduce seers foretelling the victories of unborn Con- suls and Dictators, and the last great victory would generally occupy the most conspicuous place in the prediction. There is nothing strange in the supposition that the poet who was em- ployed to celebrate the first great triumph of the Romans over the Greeks might throw his song of exultation into this form. The occasion was one likely to excite the strongest feelings of national pride. A great outrage had been followed by a great retribution. Seven years before this time, Lucius Posthumius Megellus, who sprang from one of the noblest houses of Rome, and had been thrice Consul, was sent ambassador to Tarentum, with charge to demand reparation for grievous injuries. The Tarentines gave him audience in their theatre, where he ad- dressed them in such Greek as he could command, which, we may well believe, was not exactly such as Cineas would have spoken. An exquisite sense of the ridiculous belonged to the Greek character: and closely connected with this faculty was a strong propensity to flippancy and impertinence. When Post- humius placed an accent wrong, his hearers burst into a laugh. When he remonstrated, they hooted him, and called him bar- barian; and at length hissed him off the stage as if he had been a bad actor. As the grave Roman retired, a buffoon, who, from his constant drunkenness, was nicknamed the Pint pot, came up with gestures of the grossest indecency, and bespattered the senatorial gown with filth. Posthumius turned round to the multitude, and held up the gown, as if appealing to the univer- sal law of nations. The sight only increased the insolence of the Tarentines. They clapped their hands, and set up a shout of laughter which shook the theatre. "Men of Tarentum," said Posthumius, "it will take not a little blood to wash this gown." Rome, in consequence of this insult, declared war against the Tarentines. The Tarentines sought for allies beyond the Ionian Sea. Pyrrhus, king of Epirus, came to their help with a large NOTES 109 army; and, for the first time, the two great nations of antiquity were fairly matched against each other. The fame of Greece in arms, as well as in arts, was then at the height. Half a century earlier, the career of Alexander had excited the admiration and terror of all nations from the Ganges to the Pillars of Hercules. Royal houses, founded by Mace- donian captains, still reigned at Antioch and Alexandria. That barbarian warriors, led by barbarian chiefs, should win a pitched battle against Greek valor guided by Greek science, seemed as incredible as it would now seem that the Burmese or the Siam- ese should, in the open plain, put to flight an equal number of the best English troops. The Tarentines were convinced that their countrymen were irresistible in war; and this conviction had emboldened them to treat with the grossest indignity one whom they regarded as the representative of an inferior race. Of the Greek generals then living, Pyrrhus was indisputably the first. Among the troops who were trained in the Greek discipline, his Epirotes ranked high. His expedition to Italy was a turning-point in the history of the world. He found there a people who, far inferior to the Athenians and Corinthians in the fine arts, in the speculative sciences, and in all the refine- ments of life, were the best soldiers on the face of the earth. Their arms, their gradations of rank, their order of battle, their method of intrenchment, were all of Latian origin, and had all been gradually brought near to perfection, not by the study of foreign models, but by the genius and experience of many gen- erations of great native commanders. The first words which broke from the king, when his practised eye had surveyed the Roman encampment, were full of meaning: — "These bar- barians," he said, "have nothing barbarous in their military arrangements." He was at first victorious; for his own talents were superior to those of the captains who were opposed to him; and the Romans were not prepared for the onset of the elephants of the East, which were then for the first time seen in Italy — moving mountains, with long snakes for hands. 1 But the victories of the Epirotes were fiercely disputed, dearly pur- chased, and altogether unprofitable. At length, Manius Curius Dentatus, who had in his first Consulship won two triumphs, was again placed at the head of the Roman Commonwealth, and sent to encounter the invaders. A great battle was fought near Beneventum. Pyrrhus was completely defeated. He 1 Anguimanus is the old Latin epithet for an elephant. Lucretius, ii. 538, v. 1302. 110 LAYS OF ANCIENT ROME repassed the sea; and the world learned, with amazement, that a people had been discovered, who, in fair fighting, were superior to the best troops that had been drilled on the system of Par- menio and Antigonus. The conquerors had a good right to exult in their success; for their glory was all their own. They had not learned from their enemy how to conquer him. It was with their own nation- al arms, and in their own national battle-array, that they had overcome weapons and tactics long believed to be invincible. The pilum and the broadsword had vanquished the Macedonian spear. The legion had broken the Macedonian phalanx. Even the elephants, when the surprise produced by their first appear- ance was over, could cause no disorder in the steady yet flexible battalions of Rome. It is said by Florus, and may easily be believed, that the triumph far surpassed in magnificence any that Rome had pre- viously seen. The only spoils which Papirius Cursor and Fabius Maximus could exhibit were flocks and herds, wagons of rude structure, and heaps of spears and helmets. But now, for the first time, the riches of Asia and the arts of Greece adorned a Roman pageant. Plate, fine stuffs, costly furniture, rare ani- mals, exquisite paintings and sculptures, formed part of the procession. At the banquet would be assembled a crowd of warriors and statesmen, among whom Manius Curius Dentatus would take the highest room. Caius Fabricius Luscinus, then, after two Consulships and two triumphs, Censor of the Common- wealth, would doubtless occupy a place of honor at the board. In situations less conspicuous probably lay some of those who were, a few years later, the terror of Carthage; Caius Duilius, the founder of the maritime greatness of his country; Marcus Atilius Regulus, who owed to defeat a renown far higher than that which he had derived from his victories; and Caius Lu- tatius Catulus, who, while suffering from a grievous wound, fought the great battle of the Agates, and brought the first Punic war to a triumphant close. It is impossible to recount the names of these eminent citizens, without reflecting that they were all, without exception, Plebeians, and would, but for the ever-memorable struggle maintained by Caius Licinius and Lucius Sextius, have been doomed to hide in obscurity, or to waste in civil broils, the capacity and energy which prevailed against Pyrrhus and Hamilcar. On such a day we may suppose that the patriotic enthusiasm of a Latin poet would vent itself in reiterated shouts of lo tri- NOTES 111 umphe, such as were uttered by Horace on a far less exciting occasion, and in boasts resembling those which Virgil put into the mouth of Anchises. The superiority of some foreign nations, and especially of the Greeks, in the lazy arts of peace, would be admitted with disdainful candor; but pre-eminence in all the qualities which fit a people to subdue and govern mankind would be claimed for the Romans. The following lay belongs to the latest age of Latin ballad- poetry. Naevius and Livius Andronicus were probably among the children whose mothers held them up to see the chariot of Curius go by. The minstrel who sang on that day might pos- sibly have lived to read the first hexameters of Ennius, and to see the first comedies of Plautus. His poem, as might be ex- pected, shows a much wider acquaintance with the geography, manners, and productions of remote nations, than would have been found in compositions of the age of Camillus. But he troubles himself little about dates, and having heard travellers talk with admiration of the Colossus of Rhodes, and of the struc- tures and gardens with which the Macedonian kings of Syria had embellished their residence on the banks of the Orontes, he has never thought of inquiring whether these things existed in the age of Romulus. NOTES As Macaulay explains in his Preface, the poem is a vision of the future glory of Rome which is put into the mouth of the blind seer and poet Capys, and is delivered to encourage Romu- lus just as he is leaving Alba Longa to found the city of Rome. It is a series of pictures in which the long and glorious history of the City is presented. Macaulay may have derived the main idea of the poem from the sixth book of VergiPs Aeneid, lines 756, following, in which Vergil tells how Anchises leads his son Aeneas and the Sibyl likewise amid the assembled murmurous throng of the underworld, and mounts a hillock whence he might scan all the long ranks and learn their countenances as they come. Then comes a long list of names famous in the history of Rome. Title. — For an explanation of the supposed occasion of the Lay, see Macaulay's Preface to the poem, expecially pp. 107, 109, 111. 112 LAYS OF ANCIENT ROME —The Year of the City CCCCLXXIX. B. C. 274. Lines 1-2. — Amulius . . . Sylvian. Amulius was the great- uncle of Romulus and Remus. He usurped the kingdom of their grandfather Numitor, and was slain by them. 3-4. — Alba Longa . . . Aventine. Aventinus was an early king of the city of Alba Longa, or the mother-city of Rome. Hence it is said that the Roman throne is the throne of Aventine. 5-6. — Camers. . . . words of doom. The pontiff who de- clared that the children of Rhea Sylvia, Romulus and Remus, were to be thrown into the Tiber and that she should be buried alive. According to Vergil she was cast into the river and was saved by the river god. 9. — Alba's lake. A famous lake on the Alban mount, now called Lago di Albano. 86. — Rhea's boys. Romulus and Remus. 110. — Tartessian mine. Of or from Tartessus, a town of Spain, noted for its mines. 116. — Sidon. A celebrated city of Phoenicia, the mother- city of Tyre. It was famous for its purple. See note to line 171. 123. — War-god's loins. Romulus and Remus were the sons of Mars. 130. — Vesta's sacred fire. Vesta was the goddess of flocks and herds and of the household in general. The fire sacred to her was kept burning by the Vestal virgins, of whom Rhea was one. 149. — Pomona. The goddess of fruit and fruit-trees. 150. — Liber. A Roman deity, who presided over planting and the vine. His common name is Bacchus. 151. — Pales. The deity of shepherds and cattle. 153. — Venus. The goddess of love. 169. — Campanian. The Campania was a fertile district to the south of Rome, and because of its richness was supposed to lead to luxurious habits of life. 171. — Tyre. A celebrated city of Phoenicia, famous for its purple. 173. — Carthage. The famous African rival city of Rome. It was celebrated for its commerce and shipping. 175. — Nymphs. Demi-goddesses, who inhabit the sea, woods, mountains, fields, and fountains. 177-184. — pilum, etc. The pilum is the heavy Roman jave- lin. The other details of this stanza are the special glories of Rome in the arts of war. NOTES 113 185. Volscian. The most important tribe in Latium, con- quered by Rome. With this line begins the long list of Roman victories and triumphs. 187. Capua. The chief city of Campania in Southern Italy, celebrated for its wealth and luxurious life. It was conquered by Rome. 189. Lucumoes. This refers to the conquest of the Etrus- cans by Rome. Lucumo is an Etruscan word for chief, or leader. 191 # Samnite. Samnium was an ancient country near Latium, inhabited by a race famous for its hardiness and 193. Gaul. The Romans conquered the Gauls, under the leadership of Marcus Furius. See note to line 251 of Virginia. 197-205.— Greek . . . Epirotes. Pyrrhus came with his army from Epirius in Greece. He used elephants in this war (11. 199-204). 207.— Tarentum. A city of Sicily. False, because though it was an Italian city it furnished aid to the Greek invaders. See pp. 108, 109. 230. Red King. Pyrrhus. The Greek form of the name means " Red-headed." 232.— Is not the gown washed white? See Macaulay s Pref- ace to this poem, p. 108. 249 —Manius Curius. See Macaulay's Preface to this poem, pp. 109, 110. 257 .—Rosea. A fertile district in Italy, noted for its agri- culture. 259—Mevania. A city in Umbria. Its modern name is Bevagna. 266.— Suppliant's Grove. The grove attached to the lemple of Jove on the Capitoline Hill. It was in the hollow between the two summits of the Hill. < 268.— Capitolian Jove. The great statue of Jove in the Tem- ple of Jove. . 270.— Corinth. The city is situated on the isthmus of Corinth and overlooks the bays of Corinth and Salamis. 271-2. King of Day . . . Rhodes. The gigantic statue at Rhodes, dedicated to the sun. It was one of the seven wonders of the world. . . 273_ orontes. Antioch, the famous ancient city of Syria, was situated on the river Orontes, a famous river of Syria. 114 LAYS OF ANCIENT ROME 280.— Byrsa. The citadel of Carthage. It is identified with the Biblical Bozra. 283.— morning-land. The East. 285. — Atlas. The mountains of North-western Africa. The mountains are named after the giant Atlas, who is said to have stood near the straits of Gibraltar when he supported the world. INDEX TO PREFACES AND NOTES Adria, 96, 99 Adrian main, 96, 99 ager publicus, 89 Alba's lake, 112 Alba Longa, 112 Albinia, 89 Algidus, 90 Alvernus, 90 Amulius, 112 Anio, 97 Anxur, 99 Apennine, 96 Appius Claudius Crassus, 103-105 Apulian, 98 Ardea, 98 Aricia, 97 Arpinum, 99 Arretium, 87 Astur, 88, 89 Asylum, 99 Atlas, 113 Aufidus, 98 Aulus, 96 Aunus, 89 Auser, 87 Aventine, 112 axes, 96, 97, 106 Bandusia, 98 Byrsa, 113 Caius of Corioli, 107 Calabrian, 98, 107 Camerium, 97 Camers, 112 Campania, 89 Campanian, 112 Capitolian Jove, 113 Capua, 113 Capuan odors, 107 Capys, 111 cars, 107 Carthage, 97, 112 Castor, 96 Cilnus of Arretrium, 88 Ciminian hill, 87 Circeii, 97 Cirrha, 96 Clanis, 87 Clitumnus, 87 Comitium, 90 Conscript Fathers, 88, 97 Consul, 88 Cora, 97, 98 Corinth, 113 Corinthian mirrors, 107 Corne, 96 corn-land, 89 Cortona, 87 Cosa, 89 Cossus, 98, 107 Crest of Flame, 98 Crustumerium, 88 curule chair, 107 Cyrene, 98 December's Nones, 96 Digentian, 98 Dorians, 99 earth-shaking beast, 113 Eastern Gate, 99 Epirotes, 113 Etruscan writing, 88 Eurotas, 98 Fabian pride, 107 Fabius, 107 Fair Fount, 96 fair-haired slaves, 87 Falerii, 89 false Sextus, 86, 89, 91, 97, 106 false sons, l06 Fathers of the City, 88, 97 Ferentinum, 98 Fidenae, 98 fillets, 107 flesher, 106 Furius, 107 Gabii, 96, 98 Gaul, 87, 88, 113 gown washed white, 108 Grecian fable, 106 Herminius, 89 High Pontiff, 99 holy maidens, 89 Horatius Codes, 85, 86 115 116 INDEX Icilius, 106 Ides of Quintilis, 92, 96 Ilva, 89 Janiculum, 88 Juno, 90 King of Day, 113 Knights, 93-95 Lacedaemon, 96 Lake Regillus, 96 land of sunrise, 97 Lanuvium, 99 Lars, 87 Latin Gate, 107 Lauren tian, 97 Laurentum, 99 Lausulus, 89 Lavinian, 98 Lavinium, 97 Liber, 112 Licinius, 106 lictors, 96 Lucumo, 88, 113 Luna, 87 maids' with snaky tresses, 106 Mamilius, 86, 88 Manius Curius, 109, 110 Marcian fury, 107 Marcus, 106 Martian Kalends, 96 Massilia, 87 Mevania, 113 milk-white steer, 87 morning-land, 113 must, 87 Nar, 89 Nemus, Lake, 97 Nequinum, 89 Nine Gods, the, 87 Nomentum, 99 Norba, 97 Nurscia, 88 nymphs, 112 Ocnus, 89 Orgo, 89 Orontes, 113 Ostia, 88 Palatinus, 90 Pales, 112 Parthenius, 96 Patres Conscripti, 88, 97 Patricians, 99-105 Pedum, 98 Picus, 89 pilum, 112 Pincian Hill, 107 Pisse, 87 play the man, 98 Plebeians, 99-105 Po, 98, 99 Pomona, 112 Pomptine marshes, 97, 98 Pontifex Maximus, 99 Populonia, 87 Porcian, 96 Posthumian, 96 Punic, 106 purple gowns, 107 Pyrrhus, 108-110 Quinctius, 107 Red King, 113 Rhea's boys, 112 River-Gate, 88 Rosea, 113 Sacred Hill, 96 Sacred Street, 106 sailors turned to swine, 106 Samnite, 113 Samothracia, 98 Scaevola, 106, 107 Senators, 88, 119 Sergius, 99 Servius Tullius, 106 Setia, 97 Seven Hills, 106 Sextius, 106 she-wolf's litter, 89 Shields, Golden, 88, 99 Sidon, 112 Sire Quirinus, 99 Soracte, Mount, 98 Spanish gold, 107 Spurius Lartius, 89 stately dome, 99 still lake, 97 strait, 89 Suppliant's Grove, 113 Sutrium, 88 Sylvian, 112 Syracuse, 98 Syria's daughters, 97 tablets, 106 tale, 88 Tarentum, 98, 108, 113 Tarpeian rock, 88 Tartessian mine, 112 Thirty Cities, 96 Thunder-cape, 107 Tiber, yellow, 88 Tibur, 98 Tifernum, 89 Tolumnius, 89 Tribunes, 89, 100-105 triremes, 87 trysting day, 87 Tusculum, 88, 96 Tyre, 112 INDEX H7 Ufens.97 Vo scian. 90 98, 113 Umbrian, 88 Vo sin an. 87 Umbro, 87 \oIsmum, 89 Velian, 98 ^I^Vo 0103 * ^ Velitra, 97 w £ll the 99 v.nnq 112 whitest, 96 v^Wna «8 whittle, 107 Vesta 99* ™ cked Ten ' l06 „-, Vesta's sacred fire, 112 Witch's Fortress, 97 ^SffiSJS.W Yellow River, 96 t'j. 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