At the announcement of his over-match

To wind the day's diversion up, dispatch

The pertinacious Gaul: while, limbs one heap,

The Slave, no breath in her round mouth, watched leap

Dart after dart forth, as her hero's car

Clove dizzily the solid of the war

—Let coil about his knees for pride in him.

We reach the farthest terrace, and the grim

San Pietro Palace stops us.

Such the state