M. Annaeus Lucanus, Pharsalia (ed. Sir Edward Ridley), book 6, line 750 (search)
his comfort, youth, that there a calm abode,
' And peaceful, waits thy father and his house.
' Nor let the glory of a little span
' Disturb thy boding heart: the hour shall come
' When all the chiefs shall meet. Shrink not from death,
' But glorying in the greatness of your souls,
' E'en from your humble sepulchres descend,
' And tread beneath your feet, in pride of place,
' The wandering phantoms of the gods of Rome.That is, the Caesars, who will be in Tartarus.
' Which chieftain's tomb by Tiber shall be laved,
' And which by Nile; their fate, and theirs alone,
' This battle shall decide. Nor seek to know
' From me thy fortunes: for the fates in time
' Shall give thee all thy due; and thy great sire,Referring probably to an episode intended to be introduced in a later book, in which the shade of Pompeius was to foretell his fate to Sextus.
' A surer prophet, in Sicilian fields
'Shall speak thy future-doubting even he
' What regions of the world thou shouldst avoid
' And what shoulds
any both men and women
were drowned: by occasion whereof the two kings for
the combrance of their traines, were constrained to dissever themselves for time of their journey, appointing
both to meet together in Sicily
: and so Philip the French
king tooke his way to Genua
, and king Richard to Marsilia, where he remained 8. dayes, appointing there his
Navie to meete him. From thence crossing over to
Genua
where the French king was, he passed forward by
the coasts of Italy
, and entred into Tiber
not farre from
Rome.
King Richard staying in Marsilia 8. dayes for his Navie
which came not, he there hired 20. Gallies, and ten great
barkes to ship over his men, and so came to Naples
, and
so partly by horse and wagon, and partly by the sea,
passing to Falernum, came to Calabria
, where after that
he had heard that his ships were arrived at Messana
in Sicilie, he made the more speed, and so the 23. of
September entred Messana
with such a noyse of Trumpets
and Shalmes, with such a rou