Eustace, John Cretwode: A classical tour through Italy An. MDCCCII (Vol. 1) (London: J. Mawman, 1815)

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ner—the poet in his usual easy graceful style.
Romulus,” says Proculus in the former, “ parens
urbis hujus, prima hodierna luce coelo repente
delapsus, se mihi obvium dedit. Quum perfusus
horrore venerabundusque astitissem petens pre-
cibus ut contra intueri fas esset. Abi, inquit,
nuncia Romanis, coelestes ita velle ut meaRoma
caput orbis terrarum sit; proinde rem militarem
colant, sciantque, et ita posteris tradant, nuilas
opes humanas armis Romanis resistere posse.
Haec, inquit, locutus, sublimis abiit.”*
Pulcher et humano major, trabeaque decorus
Romulus in media visus adesse vid. ....
Thura ferant, piacentque novum pia turba Quirinum
Et patrias artes, militiamque colant
Templa Deo fiunt. Coilis quoque dictus ab illo:
Et referunt certi sacra paterna dies.
Ovid. Fast. lib. ii. 507.
We may easily suppose that a temple dedi-
cated to the founder and tutelar divinity of
Rome, must have been a structure of unusual
magnificence, and we find accordingly that
a noble flight of marble steps conducted to its
portal, and that it was supported by seventy-


* Liv. i. 16.