Note 60 — OCTAVIA, A TRAGEDY.
Elizabeth Twining Hall translation
Second was the Silver Age when good Saturn was banished from above and Jove reigned.
“To this came next in course the Brazen Age; A warlike offering prompt to bloody rage; Not impious yet! Hard steel succeeded then; And stubborn as the metal were the men.” Ovid’s Metam—Book I Dryden’s Translation.