...sian sands Runs out, and shallow waters of the sea Attest the Syrtes near, in little boat He and his partners in the monstrous crime With swords embark. Ye gods! and shall the Nile And barbarous Memphis and th' effeminate crew That throngs Pelusian Canopus raise Its thoughts to such an enterprise? Do thus Our fates press on the world? Is Rome thus fallen That in our civil frays the Pharian swo...