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36 the rule of wrong and the rule of right, and forcibly contrasts the effects of each on the prosperity of communities. Here are the results of injustice:—

And here, by contrast, are the fruits of righteousness and justice, practised by cities and nations:—

In the lines italicised the old poet anticipates that criterion of honest wedlock which Horace shapes into the line, "The father's features in his children smile" (Odes, iv. 5-23, Con.); and Catullus into the beautiful wish for Julia and Manlius, that their offspring