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 186 MACAULAY

But the banner of proud Clusium Was highest of them all,

The terror of the Umbrian, The terror of the Gaul.

��And plainly and more plainly

Now might the burghers know, By port and vest, by horse and crest,

Each warlike Lucumo. There Cilnius of Arretium

On his fleet roan was seen; And Astur of the fourfold shield, Girt with the brand none else may wield, Tolumnius with the belt of gold, And dark Verbenna from the hold

By reedy Thrasymene.

Fast by the royal standard

Overlooking all the war, Lars Porsena of Clusium

Sate in his ivory car. By the right wheel rode Mamilius,

Prince of the Latian name; And by the left false Sextus,

That wrought the deed of shame.

But when the face of Sextus

Was seen among the foes, A yell that rent the firmament

From all the town arose.

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