...n exile, roused Iberia's hordes, ' Sertorius-yet, witness Heaven, with these ' I hate to rank thee; hate the task that Rome ' Has laid upon me, to oppose thy rage. ' Would that in safety from the Parthia n war ' And Scythian steppes had conquering Crassus come! ' Then haply hadst thou fallen by the hand ' That smote vile Spartacus the robber foe. ' But if among my triumphs fate has said ' Thy con...