Unless we adopt this explanation of the words, says Dacier, we shall make Horace guilty of a manifest contradiction, since a few lines farther he tells his Patron, that his suffrage, not the ivy crown is that, which will exalt him to the skies. "Original sonnets on various subjects; and odes paraphrased from Horace" by Anna Seward

Raise is to lift up, to exalt, to enhance, as " I raise the table;" " He raised his servant;" " The baker raised the price of bread." "How to Speak and Write Correctly" by Joseph Devlin