Addison, Joseph: Remarks on several parts of Italy: &c. in the years 1701, 1702, 1703 (London: Tonson, 1718)

Neighbourhood os Rome. 2,9 s
Obruet, et populos <evi Dementis in orbem
Erepto natale feret, tunc omne Latinum
Fabula nomen erit: Gabios^ Feiosquc^Co-
ramque,
Pulvere vix tett<e poterunt monfir are ruin^
Albanosque laresy Laurentinosque penates
Rus vacuum^ quod non habitet niji noble
coabtd
Iwvitus---—— L. 7.
Succeeding Nations by the Sword (hall
die,
And (wallow’d up in dark Oblivion lye
Almighty Latium with her Cities
crown’d,
Shall like an antiquated Fable sound;
The Veian and the Gabian Tow’rs (hall
fall,
And one promiseuous Ruin cover all,
Nor, after length of Years, a Stone be-
tray
The Place where once the very Ruins lay:
High Alba's Walls, and the Lawman
Strand,
(A lonely Desart, and an empty Land)
Shall scarce afford, for needful Hours os
Rest,
A (ingle House to their benighted Guest-
We here saw the Lake Bacca^ that
gives Rise to the Cremera^ on whose Banks
the Fabii were (lain. O 4