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It was in this way that the rujlicorum mufcula militum proles ^ was 

 reared, with which the Romans conquered the world. Horace adds, 

 in the paflage I have quoted, Sabellis doSla ligotiibus ver/are glebas: 

 And it was this pradice which made them the moil: expert in mak- 

 ing ramparts and intrenchments, of all foldiers, antient or mo- 

 dern, of whom we read. This was of fignal fervice to the Romans 

 in their foreign conquefts, particularly in the conquefl of Gaul, 

 which Julius Csefar may be faid to have conquered, not by the fword 

 only, but likewife by the fpade. By this education were produced 

 thofe heroes, fuch as Regulus, Fabricius, and the others mentioned 

 by Horace in thefe beautiful lines ; 



Reguluin, et Scauros, animseque magnse 

 Prodigum Paulum, fuperante Poeno, 

 Gratus infigni referam Camoena, 



Fabriciumque. 

 Hunc, ct incomtis Curium cap'ilUs 

 Utilem bello tulit, et Camlllum 

 SsEva paupertas, et avitus apto 

 Cum lare fundus f. 



and in fhort made the Romans mafters of the world, and Rome, 

 truly what Virgil calls it, rerum pulcherrima. It was by their ap- 

 plication to this moft ufeful art, and, at the fame time, the mod 

 conducive to health, as I have obferved, that the Romans were 

 diftinguiflied from all the civilifed nations in later times, and more 

 refembled the heroic race of Greece, who, as it appears, from the 

 OdyfTey of Homer, cultivated their lands with their own hands, as 

 the Romans did in the early ages of their ftate. 



Before I conclude this book, upon the fubjed of the body and 

 animal life of man, I think it is proper to recommend to the claflical 



fcholar, 



* Horat. Lib. 3. Ode 6. 

 ■\ Ibid. Lib. I. Ode 12. 



