iloratius

Updated: June 30, 2025

"I feel the selfsame fire, the selfsame nerve I feel, That roused th' indignant Cid, drove home Iloratius' steel; As cunning as of yore this hand of mine I find, That sketched great Pompey's soul, depicted Cinna's mind," wrote Corneille in his thanks to Fouquet.

M. (François) Guizot - A Popular History of France from the Earliest Times, Volume 5