“Here is a passage from the hymn, though it is almost sacrilege to detach it from its context..

‘As surely as Rome, O ye gods, is your handiwork, as surely as from Troy came those armed warriors who settled on the Tuscan shore – a mere remnant bidden to win a new home and a new city..

‘[So] — so, O gods, to our youth swift to learn grant ways of righteousness, grant to old age calm and rest, to the race of Romulus wealth and increase of its sons, O grant all that is glorious .. Already Good Faith and Peace and Honour and the Modesty of olden days and Virtue so long slighted muster strength to return, and Plenty with all the riches of its full horn is here for all to see.

‘Phoebus with his trappings of silver bow, who foresees the future, who is welcome friend of the nine Muses of Rome, who with health-giving skill gives new strength to tired limbs – Phoebus assuredly beholds with just and kindly eyes these towered hills of Rome and prolongs Rome’s greatness and the prosperity of Latium into yet another cycle and into ages that ever shall grow better.’ ”

The foregoing an excerpt from RH Barrow The Romans Pelican Books, mass worldwide readership, published in 1949; punctuation and syntax reproduced precisely/ precisement to render it a useful document for new-age quantum-relations thematics logic students. – Only the paragraphing has been altered – from one ‘eye-glazing’ turgid vacuous rhetorical tendentious sententious crude 16th century European propaganda blurt riven by ‘fruitloop’ junior High False-equivalence or seriously crook poetry, – creative paragraphing gives the student what may be called in contemporary advertising, marketing, public relations, ‘promotions’ & the Wall Street, Nikkei, DAX, City of London et-set-era ‘economy’ Bite-sized-chunks.

John

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