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Appian, The Civil Wars (ed. Horace White), THE CIVIL WARS, CHAPTER II (search)
Patriotism and Purity At Rome
The story goes that Horatius Cocles, while fighting
Horatius Cocles.
with two enemies at the head of the bridge
over the Tiber, which is the entrance to the
city on the north, seeing a large body of
men advancing to support his enemies, and fearing that
they would force their way into the city, turned round, and
shouted to those behind him to hasten back to the other
side and break down the bridge. They obeyed him: and
whilst they were breaking the bridge, he remained at his
post receiving numerous wounds, and checked the progress
of the enemy: his opponents being panic stricken, not so much
by his strength as by the audacity with which he held his
ground. When the bridge had been broken down, the attack
of the enemy was stopped; and Cocles then threw himself into
the river with his armour on and deliberately sacrificed his
life, because he valued the safety of his country and his own
future reputation more highly than his present life, and the
years of
Early Lyric Poetry at Rome.
1. The beginnings of lyric poetry among the Romans reach
back to the prehistoric period of the city, and were as
rude and shapeless as was the life of her people. Amid
the rough farmer-populace of the turf-walled village by
the Tiber the
Arval Brethren and the Salii chanted their rude
litanies to the rustic deities, - for even then
religion was a prime cause in moving men toward poetry.
In roughly balanced Saturnian verses men spoke regret
and panegyric for the dead and praises for the valorous
deeds of the living. The mimetic passion and rude wit
of the Roman led him also into boisterous personal
satire and into epigram more pungent than polished. But
until the last few decades of the Republic these
products of the Muse are either anonymous or connected
with names well-nigh forgotten, and the
E. T. Merrill, Commentary on Catullus (ed. E. T. Merrill), Poem 55 (search)
M. Tullius Cicero, For Sextus Roscius of Ameria (ed. C. D. Yonge), chapter 35 (search)
M. Tullius Cicero, On Pompey's Command (ed. C. D. Yonge), chapter 12 (search)
M. Tullius Cicero, For Sestius (ed. C. D. Yonge), chapter 35 (search)
M. Tullius Cicero, For Marcus Caelius (ed. C. D. Yonge), chapter 15 (search)