THE TEMPLE OF FAME,

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Within flood Heroes, who through loud alarmsIn bloody fields purfu’d renown in arms, i5oHigh on a throne with trophies charg’d, I view’dThe Youth that all things but himfelf fubdu’d;

His feet on fceptres and tiaras trod,

And his horn’d head bely’d the Libyan God .There Caefar, grac’d with both Minervas, (hone;Caefar, the world’s great matter, and his own; i55Unmov’d, fuperior ftill in ev’ry flate,

And fcarce detefted in his Country’s fate.

Rut chief were thofe, who not for empire fought,But with their toils their people’s fafety bought :High o’er the reft Epaminondas flood;Timoleon , glorious in his brother’s blood ;

NOTES.

Ver. i5s. The Touth that all things but him/eljJuldudj] Alex­ ander the Great : the Tiara was the crown peculiar to the Afianprinces: his dcfire to be thought the fon ofjupiter Ammon, caufedhim to wear the horns of that God , and to reprefent the fame uponhis coins ; which was continued by feveral of his fuccefTors. P.

Ver. i55. The greateft panegyric that ever Alexander and Csfarmet with, is from Lord Bacon, in the Advancement of Learning, b. 1.p. 73. firft edition.

Ver. 161. Epaminondas Jtood}] u In other illuftriou* men (faysDiodorus Siculus , lib. xv.) you will obferve that each poflefTed fomeone flrining quality, which was the foundation of his fame: InEpaminondas all the virtues are found united; force of body, elo-quence of expreflion, vigour of mind, contempt of riches, gentlenefsof difpoiition, and what is chiefly to be regarded, courage andcoudud in war.”

Ver. 162. Timoleon ^ glorious in his brother's blood ;] Timoleon hadfaved the life of bit brother Timopbanes in the battle between theArgives and Corinthians ; but afterwards killed him wheu he aflededthe tyranny, preferring his duty to his country to all the obligationsof blood. F»