Sinopsis

Sublime upon an hundred Pillars stood, With gloomy Groves religiously obscure, Laurentian Picus' Palace: Where the Kings The first Inauguration of their Sway, The Scepters, and the regal Fasces took: This Court their Temple: Here the sacred Feasts: And here the Fathers, by th' accustom'd Rite, Killing a Victim Ram, in order sate Along the Forms. Before the stately Doors Th' Effigies of their Ancestors stood rang'd In Rows of antique Cedar: Italus,