Is special worship. But when courier brings

With louring face the ills men pray against,

And tells a city that its host has fallen,

That for the State there is a general wound,

That many a man from many a home is driven,

As banned by double scourge that Ares loves,

Woe doubly-barbed, Death's two-horsed chariot this....

When with such griefs as freight a herald comes,

'Tis meet to chant the Erinnyes' dolorous song;

But for glad messenger of good deeds wrought