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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