Lays of Ancient Rome

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Lays of Ancient Rome
Macaulay Thomas Babington Macaulay Baron
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Whenthose disabilities were removed, she rapidly became more than amatch for Carthage and Macedon.
During the great Licinian contest the Plebeian poets were, doubtless, not silent. Even in modern times songs have been by nomeans without influence on public affairs; and we may thereforeinfer that, in a society where printing was unknown and wherebooks were rare, a pathetic or humorous party-ballad must haveproduced effects such as we can but faintly conceive. It iscertain that satirical poems we
...re common at Rome from a veryearly period. The rustics, who lived at a distance from the seatof government, and took little part in the strife of factions, gave vent to their petty local animosities in coarse Fescennineverse. The lampoons of the city were doubtless of a higher order;and their sting was early felt by the nobility. For in the TwelveTables, long before the time of the Licinian laws, a severepunishment was denounced against the citizen who should composeor recite verses reflecting on another.

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