...kind a fair occasion for speech, although slow to begin? Say what you will of me in your exalted phrase, but I by deeds will make you rue those words. Go, some to Helicon, others to the glens of Parnassus , and bid woodmen to cut me logs of oak, and when they are brought to the town, pile up a stack of wood all round the altar on either side, and set fire to it and burn them all alive, that they may ...