The original of the line italicized Pitt modestly omitted.
“Conscious of no wrong done, no crime to pale at remembered.”
—Horat. Ep. 1. i.
“Rise from our ashes thou unknown, the predestined avenger.”
“Was there no dead man’s place for you on that Sigeian plain?
Had ye no might to wend as slaves? Gave Troy so poor a flame
To burn her men...?”