haughty spirit of Brutus the avenger, and the fasces[228] retrieved?
He shall be the first to take the consul’s power
and the axes of doom: the father will bring his rebel sons
to death, all for fair freedom’s sake. Unhappy man! let
after ages speak of that deed as they will, strong over all
will be patriot passion and unmeasured thirst of praise.
Look, there are the Drusi[229] and the Decii,[230] and Torquatus[231] 5
with his unpitying axe, and Camillus[232] the restorer of the
standards. But those whom you see there, dressed alike
in gleaming armour—spirits at harmony now and so