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...There was their Dacian mother - he, their sire, Butcher'd to make a Roman holiday' All this rush'd with his blood - Shall he expire And unavenged? - Arise! ye Goths, and glut your ire! 1270 But here, where Murder breathed her bloody steam; And here, where buzzing nations choked the ways,...

...There was their Dacian mother — he, their sire, Butcher'd to make a Roman holiday — All this rush'd with his blood — Shall he expire And unavenged? — Arise! ye Goths, and glut your ire! (st. 140-41) In this ecphrastic passage, Byron exalts a timeless work of art by moving it back into...