. Republican Rome; her conquests, manners and institutions from the earliest times to the death of Caesar . as equallyready for the sword and the plough, and who owed all theirvirtues to the grand primeval industry of agriculture. Inafter-ages, when the Romans were sunk deep in corruption,Virgil and Horace exerted all the magic of their genius torevive the antique beauty of that nobler life ; and four gene-rations later the fierce heart of Juvenal finds utterance in agreat and bitter cry, calling upon the spirits of the mightydead to arrest the wild iniquity of the time.^ The same pastoral cha
. Republican Rome; her conquests, manners and institutions from the earliest times to the death of Caesar . as equallyready for the sword and the plough, and who owed all theirvirtues to the grand primeval industry of agriculture. Inafter-ages, when the Romans were sunk deep in corruption,Virgil and Horace exerted all the magic of their genius torevive the antique beauty of that nobler life ; and four gene-rations later the fierce heart of Juvenal finds utterance in agreat and bitter cry, calling upon the spirits of the mightydead to arrest the wild iniquity of the time.^ The same pastoral character meets us at every step in theearly days of Rome. The name of the hill * which formed thecentral stronghold of the young colony ; the feast of Pales,an ancient deity, worshipped as the guardian of flocks and ^ Dionysius constantly uses the form Romus, of which Romulus is clearlythe diminutive. 2 Seeley, introduction to first book of Livy. a Virgii, Georgics, passim; Horace, Odes, iii. 6, Epodes, ii. ; Juvenal,Satires, ii. * Palatine, like Pales, connected with pasco, to feed (of flocks or herds).. Plate II. The She-Wolf of the Capitol
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