"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."
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John Nichol, Hannibal (1873), V, viii
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