Non possit magni Messalæ lippa propago;
Compositum jus fasque animo sanctosque recessus
Mentis et incoctum generoso pectus honesto:
Hæc cedo, ut admoveam templis, et farre litabo.[[1061]]
No, let me bring the immortals what the race
Of great Messala, now depraved and base,
On their huge charger cannot,—bring a mind
Where legal and where moral sense are joined
With the pure essence; holy thoughts that dwell
In the soul’s most retired and sacred cell;