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Drusus at tbis particular period, of the example of Livia as formerly a 

 devoted wife. " Quoties," he says, in a speech deprecating the threa- 

 tened prohibition of public oflBcers taking their wives with them into 

 the provinces, '^ quoties divum Augustum in Occidentem atque Orien- 

 tem meavisse, comite Livia ? " 



The legend, " Juventus et Patrius Vigor," to be read on the Con- 

 federation medal, is from the magnificent ode of Horace, usually entitled 

 the "Praises of Drusus" — the praises of the uncle, namely, of the 

 Dru.sus who struck the medal in honor of Livia. The Drusi were a 

 family in which bravery seemed to be hereditary. This is the burden 

 of the ode. It was — the poet reminds the Ptoman people — one of this 

 family that helped, as consul, to overthrow Hasdrubal at the Metaurus, 

 B. C. 207, the event that brought about the final retirement of Han- 

 nibal from Italy. 



Whoever it was that selected the legend for the medal, he has 

 adroitly given a hint therein of the modern policy of Great Britain in 

 relation to the colonies as they become populous and strong. They 

 may be timidly anxious still to keep under her wing ; but when full- 

 fledged, they must be taught to undertake for themselves. Juventus 

 et patrius vigor, as the words stand in " The Praises of Drusus," are 

 the qualities or instincts moving a now mature young eagle, at the very 

 instant of his quitting the nest, to provide bravely for himself, however 

 unwonted before was such an occupation. The young soldier, Drusus, 

 step-son of Augustus, has no sooner quitted the home where he had 

 been reared and trained, than, by a splendid victory, won amidst the 

 defiles and fastnesses of the Tyrolean Alps, he lays the whole empire 

 under an enduring obligation. He is consequently compared by the 

 poet to the only just fledged but spirited young eaglet — 



" Whom native vigor and the rush 



Of youth have spurr'd to quit the nest, 

 And skies of bine in springtide's flush, 



Entice aloft to breast 

 The gales he fear'd before his lordly plumes were drest, — 



Now swooping, eager for his prey. 



Spreads havoc through the flutter'd fold, — 

 Straight, fired by love of food and fray, 



In grapple fierce and bold 

 The struggling dragons rends even in their rocky hold." 



The application is obvious. This famous fourth ode of the fourth 

 book of the Odes was previously associated with Canadian history. 



