Note 604 — Chapter XV · CATULLUS.

'Soon my eyes shall see, mayhap, Young Torquatus on the lap Of his mother, as he stands Stretching out his tiny hands, And his little lips the while Half-open on his father's smile. 'And oh! may he in all be like Manlius his sire, and strike Strangers when the boy they meet As his father's counterfeit, And his face the index be, Of his mother's chastity.'—Martin.