. Lays of ancient Rome, with Ivry, and The Armada;. E. It is not easy to understand how any modernscholar, whatever his attainments may be,—and thoseof Niebuhr were undoubtedly immense,—can ventureto pronounce that Martial did not know the quantityof a word which he must have uttered and hearduttered a hundred times before he left school. Nie-buhr seems also to have forgotten that Martial hasfellow-culprits to keep him in countenance. Horacehas committed the same decided blunder; for hegives us, as a pure iambic line, * Minacis aut Etrusca Porsense manus. Silius Italicus has repeatedly offende
. Lays of ancient Rome, with Ivry, and The Armada;. E. It is not easy to understand how any modernscholar, whatever his attainments may be,—and thoseof Niebuhr were undoubtedly immense,—can ventureto pronounce that Martial did not know the quantityof a word which he must have uttered and hearduttered a hundred times before he left school. Nie-buhr seems also to have forgotten that Martial hasfellow-culprits to keep him in countenance. Horacehas committed the same decided blunder; for hegives us, as a pure iambic line, * Minacis aut Etrusca Porsense manus. Silius Italicus has repeatedly offended in the sameway, as when he says, Cernitur effugiens ardentem Porsena dextram :f and again, Clusinum vulgus, cum, Porsena magne, jubebas. A modern writer may be content to err in suchcompany. Niebuhrs supposition that each of the threedefenders of the bridge was the representative of oneof the three patrician tribes is both ingenious andprobable, and has been adopted in the followingpoem. HORATIUS. A LAY MADE ABOUT THE YEAR OF THE CITY LARS PORSENA of Clusium By the Nine Gods he sworeThat the great house of Tarquin Should suffer wrong no the Nine Gods he swore it, And named a trysting day,And bade his messengers ride forth. East and west and south andnorth, To summon his array. 8 LAYS OF ANCIENT ROME. II. East and west and south and north. The messengers ride fast,And tower and town and cottage Have heard the trumpets on the false Etruscan Who lingers in his home,When Porsena of Clusium Is on the march for Rome. III. The horsemen and the footmen Are pouring in amainFrom many a stately market-place ; From many a fruitful plain ;From many a lonely hamlet, Which, hid by beech and pine,Like an eagles nest, hangs on the crest Of purple Apennine ; IV. From lordly Volaterrae, Where scowls the far-famed holdPiled by the hands of giants For godlike kings of old ;
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