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M. Annaeus Lucanus, Pharsalia (ed. Sir Edward Ridley) 4 0 Browse Search
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M. Annaeus Lucanus, Pharsalia (ed. Sir Edward Ridley), book 1, line 158 (search)
Field. Then covetous usury rose, and interest Was greedier with the seasons; and all trust Was crushed; and many found a boon in war. Caesar has crossed the Alps, his mighty soul Great tumults pondering and the coming shock. Now on the marge of Rubicon, he saw, In face most sorrowful and ghostly guise, His trembling country's image; huge it seemed Through mists of night obscure; and hoary hair Streamed from the lofty front with turrets crowned: Torn were her locks and naked were her arms. Thenes his fury; stiff upon his neck Bristles his mane: deep from his gaping jaws Resounds the muttered growl, and should a lance Or javelin reach him from the hunter's ring, Scorning the puny scratch he bounds afield. From modest fountain blood-red Rubicon In summer's heat flows on; his pigmy tide Creeps through the valleys and with slender marge Divides the Italian peasant from the Gaul. Then winter gave him strength, and fraught with rain The third day's crescent moon; while Eastern winds Thawed
The Daily Dispatch: January 22, 1862., [Electronic resource], From Kentucky. (search)
nd of the Department of the Cumberland, fails to make his long-talked-of attack. One would most reasonably suppose that, having completed his bridge across Green river, and tested its strength by sending over several trains heavily ladened, Buell could now find it consistent with a due sense of prudence and generalship to order an immediate advance, and precipitate his legions upon the wicked rebels at Bowling Green. But he is possessed of no disposition to plunge, like Cœsar, this modern Rubicon, for feat he will be bagged, and "free no more." Some of the long tongued correspondents of the Cincinnati papers have started the absurd story of a great plan by which Buell thinks he can surround us, and force us either to fight or fall back. You may set it down as a thing indisputable that the Federal forces will not be materially divided for such a movement as this. It is as much as General Buell can do to maintain his present locus standi. Crittenden remains at Calhoun by suffera