This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1878 edition. Excerpt: ...opposing some proposition for demanding their restoration. We have not doubted that, in heaven supreme, Reigns thundering Jove. Hereafter shall we not Augustus, present deity, esteem, With Britons and redoubted Persians brought Within the empire 1 Hath then veteran Of Crassus, lived as the degenerate mate Of ...
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This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1878 edition. Excerpt: ...opposing some proposition for demanding their restoration. We have not doubted that, in heaven supreme, Reigns thundering Jove. Hereafter shall we not Augustus, present deity, esteem, With Britons and redoubted Persians brought Within the empire 1 Hath then veteran Of Crassus, lived as the degenerate mate Of spouse barbarian? Hath Apulian Or Marsian (ah Senate! ah changed state Of morals!) serving under Median king, Grown old in arms of his wife's hostile sire, Ancilia, toga, name, remembering Not, nor of Vesta the eternal fire, Rome and the Capitol still left entire? 'Gainst this, and 'gainst a fatal precedent Fraught with perdition for an age to come, Unless without commiseration went The captive youth, death-sentenced, to their doom, Did Regulus with prescient mind provide, Shameful conditions scouting. 'I have seen In Carthaginian temples fixed, ' he cried, 'Our standards and our weapons which had been Caelo tonantem credidimus Jovem Regnare: praesens divus habebitur Augustus, adjectis Britannis Imperio, gravibusque Persis. Milesne Crassi conjuge barbara Turpis maritus vixit? Et hostium, (Pro curia, inversique mores!) Consenuit socerorum in armis Sub rege Medo, Marsus et Apulus, Anciliorum, et nominis, et togae Oblitus, aeternaeque Vestae, Incolumi Jove et urbe Roma? Hoc caverat mens provida Reguli, Dissentientis conditionibus Foedis, et exemplo trahenti: Perniciem veniens in aevum, Si non periret immiserabilis Captiva pubes. Signa ego Punicis Adfixa delubris, et arma Militibus sine caede, dixit, M From unslain soldiers stripped. Bound, I have seen Arms of free citizens behind their backs, And city gates unshut, and, newly green, Fields erewhile desolate with our attacks. When gold, forsooth, has ransomed him, more bold The soldier may return!..
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