text:  In one of these fore-shadowing representations--that of the decisive sea-fight off the promontory of Actium--you might believe that under the similitude of the conflict and victory which delivered the sovereignty of the Roman world into the hand of Augustus the sly Father of the Fire has willed by hints to prefigure an everlasting war of light and darkness the irreconcilable hostility of the Wits and Dunces and the sudden interposition of some divine poet clothed with preternatural power for the "foul dissipation and forced rout" of the miscreated multitude