Familiar Quotations / A Collection of Passages, Phrases, and Proverbs Traced to / Their Sources in Ancient and Modern Literature

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And how can man die better

Than facing fearful odds

For the ashes of his fathers

And the temples of his gods?

Lays of Ancient Rome. Horatius, xxvii.

How well Horatius kept the bridge

In the brave days of old.

Lays of Ancient Rome. Horatius, lxx.

These be the great Twin Brethren

To whom the Dorians pray.