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Purchase of this book includes free trial access to www.million-books.com where you can read more than a million books for free. This is an OCR edition with typos. Excerpt from book: thia's proud gates, and closed the peaceful shrine of our city's Janus: curbed the licence that strayed beyond the bounds of right: banished crime and recalled those ancient virtues which fostered the Latin name and Italy's might, and made our empire's fame and majesty to reach to the sun's rising from his western couch. While Caesar guards the world, no civil fury, no riot shall banish peace, ?no wrath that whets swords and drives hapless cities to war. None shall break the Julian laws: not they who drink of Danube's depth, nor Getae, nor farthest East, nor treacherous Persians, nor dwellers by Tanais' stream. And we on days profane and sacred, 'mid merry Bacchus' bounty, will with our children and our wives first offer to the gods their due meed of prayer: then, as sang our fathers, will sing with Lydian flute and voice in harmony of our leader's valorous deeds, and Troy and Anchises and kindly Venus' progeny. CARMEN S.ECULARE. Phoebus and Diana, queen of the forest, bright glory of the sky, ye whom we worship ever and shall worship ! grant our prayer at this holy time, wherein the Sibyl's verse hath bidden chosen maids and striplings pure to utter their strain to the gods who love our seven hills. Kind Sun, who bringest and hidest the day with shining car, and risest ever new yet still the same, mayest thou ne'er behold aught greater than our city Rome ! Ilithyia, whose gentle hand brings duly to birth the full-formed babe, protect our mothers, whether thou wouldst liefer draw thy godhead's name from Light or Life. Goddess, long preserve our offspring, and prosper the senate's decrees anent wedlock and the marriage law prolific in sons and daughters new, that so each cycle of eleven decades may repeat its songs and sports, thrice thronged in daylight clear and thrice ...

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