Horatius at the Bridge Sample The Lays of Ancient Rome are five ballads written by the Englishman Thomas Babington Macaulay and published in 1842. These ballads (lays) celebrate events and heroes in ancient Roman history, and Horatius at the Bridge is the most famous of Macaulay’s ballads. Ballads are narratives that a Memoria Press product: https://www.memoriapress.com/curriculum/classical-studies/horatius-at-the-bridge-second-edition/