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On the left side goes Remus

Quote byThomas Babington Macaulay, 1st Baron Macaulay · 1800–1859

Commonly attributed — not confirmed in an authoritative edition. Cited on Wikiquote to: Lays of Ancient Rome (1842), The Prophecy of Capys, st. 8.

English (original)

On the left side goes Remus, With wrists and fingers red, And in his hand a boar-spear, And on the point a head— A wrinkled head and aged, With silver beard and hair, And holy fillets round it, Such as the pontiffs wear— The head of ancient Camers, Who spake the words of doom: "The children to the Tiber; The mother to the tomb."

— Thomas Babington Macaulay, 1st Baron Macaulay

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