And now he feels the bottom;
Now on dry earth he stands;
Now round him throng the fathers
To press his gory hands;
And now with shouts and clapping,
And noise of weeping loud,
He enters through the River-gate
Borne by the joyous crowd.
* * * * *
When the goodman mends his armour,
And trims his helmet's plume;
When the good wife's shuttle merrily
Goes flashing through the loom;
With weeping and with laughter
Still is the story told,
How well Horatius kept the bridge
In the brave days of old." ]
[Footnote 13: Of the left hand.—D.O.]
[Footnote 14: Probably where the Cliva Capitolina begins to ascend the slope of the Capitol.—D.O.]
[Footnote 15: The most ancient of the Greek colonies in Italy. Its ruins are on the coast north of the Promontory of Miseno.—D.O.]
[Footnote 16: Leading from the forum to the Velabrum.]
[Footnote 17: It was situated in the Alban Hills about ten miles from
Rome, on the site of the modern Frascati.—D.O.]
[Footnote 18: Suessa-Pometia, mentioned in former note. Cora is now
Cori.—D.O.]
[Footnote 19: Their home was in Campania.—D.O.]