Roman festivals

"There were his young barbarians all at play, There was their Dacian mother—he, their sire, Butchered to make a Roman holiday."

"Let our children laugh, When Italy is free. Meanwhile proclaim A Feast, with three days' offering to the Gods! Load every shrine with tributes of glad hearts, Crown Victory's statue with triumphal wreathes, And scatter flowers about the Capitol; Hymning the praise of Jove that stays the flight. Let all the readers of our annals say Never was such a Roman holiday."