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Thucydides, The Peloponnesian War, Book 1, chapter 29 (search)
Thucydides, The Peloponnesian War, Book 1, chapter 30 (search)
Appian, The Civil Wars (ed. Horace White), THE CIVIL WARS, INTRODUCTION (search)
John Conington, Commentary on Vergil's Aeneid, Volume 2, P. VERGILI MARONIS, line 604 (search)
John Conington, Commentary on Vergil's Aeneid, Volume 2, P. VERGILI MARONIS, line 626-731 (search)
On the shield was represented
the various scenes in the life of the
Roman nation: Romulus and Remus with
the wolf, the rape of the Sabines with the
consequent war and treaty, the punishment
of Mettus Fuffetius, Porsenna baffled
by Cocles and Cloelia, Manlius on the Capitol
surprised by the Gauls, the religious
ceremonials of the city, Catiline in Tartarus
and Cato in Elysium, the sea and the battle
of Actium, the rout, and the triumph.
John Conington, Commentary on Vergil's Aeneid, Volume 2, P. VERGILI MARONIS, line 704 (search)
The introduction of Apollo as a
combatant is in the Homeric spirit, and
perhaps actually suggested, as Heyne
thinks, by Il. 16. 700 foll., where however
Apollo has no weapon but a shield. Propertius
in his poem on the battle of
Actium (El. 5. 6) makes Apollo the priucipal
figure, which is itself a compliment
to Augustus, who wished to be considered
the som of the god. It is needless to say
that such a deux ex machina is much more
in place in a quasi-symbolical picture than
in a narrative poem: still, we may question
the propriety of making Apollo at
once decide a battle where the other
Olympian deities were already engaged on
the side of Rome.
John Conington, Commentary on Vergil's Aeneid, Volume 2, P. VERGILI MARONIS, line 705 (search)
Desuper, either from the sky or
from his temple on the promontory of
Actium. Eo terrore like quo motu
G. 1. 329, hoc metu 12. 468 note.
Aegyptos Pal. (originally), Rom. corrected,
which it seems worth while to
adopt, for the sake of uniformity with
G. 4. 210.
Betwixt the quarters flows a golden sea;
But foaming surges there in silver play.
The dancing dolphins with their tails divide
The glitt'ring waves, and cut the precious tide.
Amid the main, two mighty fleets engage
Their brazen beaks, oppos'd with equal rage.
Actium surveys the well-disputed prize;
Leucate's wat'ry plain with foamy billows fries.
Young Caesar, on the stern, in armor bright,
Here leads the Romans and their gods to fight:
His beamy temples shoot their flames afar,
And o'er his head is hung the Julian star.
Agrippa seconds him, with prosp'rous gales,
And, with propitious gods, his foes assails:
A naval crown, that binds his manly brows,
The happy fortune of the fight foreshows.
Rang'd on the line oppos'd, Antonius brings
Barbarian aids, and troops of Eastern kings;
Th' Arabians near, and Bactrians from afar,
Of tongues discordant, and a mingled war:
And, rich in gaudy robes, amidst the strife,
His ill fate follows him—th' Egyptian wife.
Moving they fight; with oars and f
So, safe at land, our hopeless peril past,
we offered thanks to Jove, and kindled high
his altars with our feast and sacrifice;
then, gathering on Actium's holy shore,
made fair solemnities of pomp and game.
My youth, anointing their smooth, naked limbs,
wrestled our wonted way. For glad were we,
who past so many isles of Greece had sped
and 'scaped our circling foes. Now had the sun
rolled through the year's full circle, and the waves
were rough with icy winter's northern gales.
I hung for trophy on that temple door
a swelling shield of brass (which once was worn
by mighty Abas) graven with this line:
SPOIL OF AENEAS FROM TRIUMPHANT FOES.
Then from that haven I command them forth;
my good crews take the thwarts, smiting the sea
with rival strokes, and skim the level main.
Soon sank Phaeacia's wind-swept citadels
out of our view; we skirted the bold shores
of proud Epirus, in Chaonian land,
and made Buthrotum's port and towering town.
Encircled by these pictures ran the waves
of vast, unrestful seas in flowing gold,
where seemed along the azure crests to fly
the hoary foam, and in a silver ring
the tails of swift, emerging dolphins lashed
the waters bright, and clove the tumbling brine.
For the shield's central glory could be seen
great fleets of brazen galleys, and the fight
at Actium; where, ablaze with war's array,
Leucate's peak glowed o'er the golden tide.
Caesar Augustus led Italia's sons
to battle: at his side concordant moved
Senate and Roman People, with their gods
of hearth and home, and all Olympian Powers.
Uplifted on his ship he stands; his brows
beneath a double glory smile, and bright
over his forehead beams the Julian star.
in neighboring region great Agrippa leads,
by favor of fair winds and friendly Heaven,
his squadron forth: upon his brows he wears
the peerless emblem of his rostral crown.
Opposing, in barbaric splendor shine
the arms of Antony: in victor's garb
from nations in the land of morn h