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More than 5000 entries on the history, culture and life of Britain (published in 1993 by Macmillan, now out of print)
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Lays of Ancient Rome
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(1842)
Poems by *Macaulay turning episodes from Roman history into stirring ballads. The best known, Horatius, begins with the resonant verse: Lars Porsena of Clusium
By the nine gods he swore
That the royal house of Tarquin
Should suffer wrongs no more. It goes on to tell how Horatius, gallant captain of the gate, held the bridge over the Tiber to protect Rome against the followers of the deposed house of Tarquin.
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