“’Tis the especial virtue of a prince to know his own men.”

“A land strong in arms and in the richness of the soil.”—Virg. Æn. i. 535.

He quotes here from Ovid: “Boy, spare the whip, and tightly grasp the reins.”—Met. ii. 127.

The old term for colonies.

“But the house of Æneas shall reign over every shore, both his children’s children, and those who shall spring from them.”—Æn. iii. 97.