Tuesday, October 26, 2021
Arrival of the Conqueror
Horace, Epodes 16.11-12 (tr. C.E. Bennett):
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The savage conqueror shall stand, alas! upon the ashes of our city, and the horseman shall trample it with clattering hoof...Ezekiel 26.11 (KJV):
barbarus heu cineres insistet victor et urbem
eques sonante verberabit ungula...
With the hoofs of his horses shall he tread down all thy streets: he shall slay thy people by the sword, and thy strong garrisons shall go down to the ground.
