[73].
“Let them not come forth
Till the ninth ripening year mature their worth.”
—Horat. Ars Poet., 388, Francis’ trans.
[74].
“Than if far Cadiz, Libya’s plain,
And either Carthage owned your sway.”
—Horat. Carm. ii. 2.
En passant, it may be said that this stanza, which begins
“Latius regnes, avidum domando