emendous guest,
Sits by their side, and guards the tempting feast,
Which if they touch, her dreadful torch she rears,
Flames in their eyes, and thunders in their ears
They that on earth had low pursuits in view,
Their brethren hated, or their parents slew,
And, still more numerous, those who swelled their store,
But ne'er reliev'd their kindred or the poor;
Or in a cause unrighteous fought and bled;
Or perish'd in the foul adulterous bed;
Or broke the ties of faith with base deceit;
Imprison'd deep their destin'd torments wait.
But what their torments, seek not thou to know,
Or the dire sentence of their endless wo.
Some roll a stone, rebounding down the hill,
Some hang suspended on the whirling wheel;
There Theseus groans in pain that ne'er expire,
Chain'd down forever in a chair of fire.
There Phlegyas feels unutterable wo,
And roars incessant thro' the shades below;
Be just, ye mortals! by these torments aw'd,
These dreadful torments, not to scorn a god.
This wretch his country to a tyrant sold,
And barter'd glorious liberty for gold.
Laws for a bribe he past, but past in vain,
For those same laws a bribe repeal'd again.
To some enormous crimes they all aspir'd;
All feel the torments that those crimes requir'd!
Had I a hundred mouths, a hundred tongues,
A voice of brass, and adamantine lungs,
Not half the mighty scene could I disclose,
Repeat their crimes, or count their dreadful woes!

_AEneid VI. Pitt._

HORACE.

Horace was born 65 B.C. and died 8 B.C. His father gave him a good
education. About the age of seventeen he lost his father, and
afterwards his property was confiscated. He had to write for
bread--_Paupertas impulit audax ut versus facerem_--and in so doing
gained much reputation, and sufficient means to purchase the place of
scribe in the Quaestor's office. He now made his acquaintance with
Virgil and Varius, and by them was introduced to that munificent
patron of scholars, Maecenas, who gave to our poet a place next to his
heart, while he, in return, is never weary of acknowledging how much
he owes to his illustrious friend.

The following happy remarks on the Roman Satirists are by Professor
Sanborn, formerly Professor of Latin in Dartmouth College, and now in
the University of St. Louis: "The principal Roman Satirists were
Horace,