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Italy (Italy) (search for this): book 6, card 507
framing chants Of dire and novel purpose : for she feared Lest Mars should stray into another world, And spare Thessalian soil the blood ere long To flow in torrents; and thus she forbade Philippi's field, polluted with her song, Thick with her poisonous distilments sown, To let the war pass by. Such deaths, she hopes, Soon shall be hers! the blood of all the world Shed for her use! to her it shall be given To sever from their trunks the heads of kings, Plunder the ashes of the noble dead, Italia's bravest, and in triumph add The mightiest warriors to her host of shades. This her sole toil, from Magnus' tombless corse What she may snatch, on which of Caesar's limbs Her grasp may fasten. To whom the coward son Of Magnus thus: 'Thou greatest ornament Of Haemon's daughters, in whose power it lies Or to reveal the fates, or from its course 'To turn the future, be it mine to know 'By thy sure utterance to what final end 'Fortune now guides the issue. Not the least 'Of all the Roman host o
Philippi (Greece) (search for this): book 6, card 507
of her he trod Through desert fields. Meanwhile a faithful band, His ministers of guilt, mid tombs and vaults All ruined wandering, beheld the witch Seated afar upon a lofty crag Where Haemus reaches out Pharsalian spurs.Confusing Pharsalia with Philippi. (See line 685.) There was she proving for her gods and priests Of magic, words unknown, and framing chants Of dire and novel purpose : for she feared Lest Mars should stray into another world, And spare Thessalian soil the blood ere long To flow in torrents; and thus she forbade Philippi's field, polluted with her song, Thick with her poisonous distilments sown, To let the war pass by. Such deaths, she hopes, Soon shall be hers! the blood of all the world Shed for her use! to her it shall be given To sever from their trunks the heads of kings, Plunder the ashes of the noble dead, Italia's bravest, and in triumph add The mightiest warriors to her host of shades. This her sole toil, from Magnus' tombless corse What she may snatch, on w
Haemus (search for this): book 6, card 507
e ghastly lips, Held by her own apart, some impious tale Dark with mysterious horror hath conveyed Down to the darkness of the Stygian shades. When Sextus first, through rumours of the place, Heard of the hag, what time beneath the earth Titan was wheeling at full height, and here Night in mid course, in quest of her he trod Through desert fields. Meanwhile a faithful band, His ministers of guilt, mid tombs and vaults All ruined wandering, beheld the witch Seated afar upon a lofty crag Where Haemus reaches out Pharsalian spurs.Confusing Pharsalia with Philippi. (See line 685.) There was she proving for her gods and priests Of magic, words unknown, and framing chants Of dire and novel purpose : for she feared Lest Mars should stray into another world, And spare Thessalian soil the blood ere long To flow in torrents; and thus she forbade Philippi's field, polluted with her song, Thick with her poisonous distilments sown, To let the war pass by. Such deaths, she hopes, Soon shall be hers!