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Caractacus; yet there still appeared to me parts of it untouched, which might be brought forward in dramatic poetry with tolerable effect.

The story of the following tragedy is fictitious, but I hope not entirely inconsistent with the manners and customs of the Celtic people. It is written on the Greek model, and the odes are without rime.