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"Lars Porsena of Clusium, by the nine gods he swore / that the great house of Tarquin should suffer wrong no more!" ... and so on ... There's also a wonderful one on Verginius' murder of his daughter to keep her from becoming the illegally-enslaved concubine of Appius Claudius, too. Macaulay has her catching Claudius' eye whilst skipping merrily to school, as, I guess, all Roman girls ... did ... when exactly would this have been? Even the first time I read this one I remember thinking, but maybe she would rather have been a mistress than a corpse? Her father never gave her that choice. Nor did Claudius of course in the poem; and perhaps the point was more the illegal enslavement than the intended concubinage.

Anyway, great, red-blooded, sexist, classist, name-a-variety-of-political-incorrectness-and-find-it-herein Victorian stuff; I love it. I seem to have collected 2 copies, one without a cover.