Some, the broad tablet, flashing on the sight,

With titles, names: the statues, tumbled down,

Are dragged by hooting thousands through the town;

The brazen cars torn rudely from the yoke,

And, with the blameless steeds, to shivers broke—

Then roar the flames! The sooty artist blows,

And all Sejanus[51] in the furnace glows;

Sejanus, once so honored, so adored,

And only second to the world’s great lord,

Runs glittering from the mould, in cups and cans,