’Twas Stilicho alone who by his courage assured despairing Rome the promise of a better fate; at

[51] i.e. The Great Bear.

[52] The twelve vultures seen by Romulus (Livy i. 7. 1) were interpreted as twelve centuries of Roman power. Taking the traditional date of the founding of the city (754 B.C.) more than eleven centuries had already passed.

[146]

dux idem vatesque fuit. “durate parumper”

inquit “et excussis muliebribus ore querellis 270

fatorum toleremus onus. nil nautica prosunt

turbatae lamenta rati nec segnibus undae

planctibus aut vanis mitescunt flamina votis.

nunc instare manu, toto nunc robore niti