In all these arts which Virgil excepts, it is our fortune to shine pre-eminent. Our bar is unquestionably the first in the world; our astronomers and scientific men are the first; our workers in the metals and engravers are the best; and our sculptors are not excelled.
“Victoria blesses with her hand—not harms.”
——Victoria læta.
Hor. Sat. i. 1.
——prima viam Victoria pandit!
Virg. Æn. xii.
XLV. “Your bosoms, boundless wealth and luxury, tame.”
At postquàm Fortuna loci caput extulit hujus,
Et tetigit summos vertice Roma Deos;
Creverunt et opes, et opum furiosa cupido;