Note 66 — MR. BURKE. ON MOVING RESOLUTIONS FOR CONCILIATION WITH AMERICA. HOUSE OF COMMONS, MARCH 22, 1775.
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Note 66, p. 254.—Horace, “Odes,” bk. i., 12, 27. The allusion is to the deification of Augustus and the superintending influence of Castor and Pollux. The passage was translated by Gifford thus:
“When their auspicious star To the sailor shines afar, The troubled waters leave the rocks at rest; The clouds are gone, the winds are still, The angry wave obeys their will, And calmly sleeps upon the ocean’s breast.”