The monster waded through whole seas of blood.

Sore groan'd the land beneath his iron rod,

Till rous'd at length Evander came from Greece,

Like Freedom's Genius came, and sent the tyrant,

Stript of the crown, and to his humble rank

Once more reduc'd, to roam, for vile subsistence,

A wandering sophist through the realms of Greece.

Phil. Whate'er his right, to him in Syracuse

All bend the knee; his the supreme dominion,

And death and torment wait his sovereign nod.

Mel. But soon that pow'r shall cease: behold his walls

Now close encircled by the Grecian bands;

Timoleon leads them on; indignant Corinth

Sends her avenger forth, array'd in terror,

To hurl ambition from a throne usurp'd,

And bid all Sicily resume her rights.

Phil. Thou wert a statesman once, Melanthon; now,

Grown dim with age, thy eye pervades no more

The deep-laid schemes which Dionysius plans.

Know then, a fleet from Carthage even now

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