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M. Annaeus Lucanus, Pharsalia (ed. Sir Edward Ridley), book 6, line 413 (search)
urning sun; and thunder roars Uncaused by Jupiter. From their flowing locks Vapours immense shall issue at their call; When falls the tempest seas shall rise and foam When the boisterous sea, Without a breath of wind, hath knocked the sky. Ben Jonson's 'Masque of Queens.' Moved by their spell; though powerless the breeze To raise the billows. Ships against the wind With bellying sails move onward. From the rock Hangs motionless the torrent: rivers run Uphill; the summer heat no longer swells Nile in his course; Maeander's stream is straight; Slow Rhone is quickened by the rush of Saone; Hills dip their heads and topple to the plain; Olympus sees his clouds drift overhead; And sunless Scythia's sempiternal snows Melt in mid-winter; the inflowing tides Driven onward by the moon, at that dread chant Ebb from their course; earth's axes, else unmoved, Have trembled, and the force centripetal Has tottered, and the earth's compacted frame Struck by their voice has gaped, till through the voi
M. Annaeus Lucanus, Pharsalia (ed. Sir Edward Ridley), book 6, line 750 (search)
m 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 shouldst seek. O miserable race! ' Europe an
M. Annaeus Lucanus, Pharsalia (ed. Sir Edward Ridley), book 7, line 728 (search)
salia's field. Then to the ghastly harvest of the war Came all the beasts of earth whose facile sense Of odour tracks the bodies of the slain. Sped from his northern home the Thracian wolf; Bears left their dens and lions from afar Scenting the carnage; dogs obscene and foul Their homes deserted: all the air was full Of gathering fowl, who in their flight had long Pursued the armies. Cranes Wrongly supposed by Lucan to feed on carrion. who yearly change The frosts of Thracia for the banks of Nile, This year delayed their voyage. As ne'er before The air grew dark with vultures' hovering wings, Innumerable, for every grove and wood Sent forth its denizens; on every tree Dripped from their crimsoned beaks a gory dew. Oft on the conquerors and their impious arms Or purple rain of blood, or mouldering flesh Fell from the lofty heaven; or limbs of men From weary talons dropped. Yet even so The peoples passed not all into the maw Of ravening beast or fowl; the inmost flesh Scarce did they to
M. Annaeus Lucanus, Pharsalia (ed. Sir Edward Ridley), book 8, line 331 (search)
als of the rout: 'Red is yon wall where passed their headless trunks; 'Euphrates here engulfed them, Tigris there ' Cast up to perish. Gaze on such array, 'And thou canst supplicate at Caesar's feet ' In mid Thessalia seated. Nay, thy glance ' Turn on the Roman world, and if thou fear'st King Juba faithless and the southern realms, Then seek we Pharos. Egypt on the west Girt by the trackless Syrtes forces back By sevenfold stream the ocean; rich in glebe And gold and merchandise; and proud of Nile Asks for no rain from heaven. Now holds this boy Her sceptre, owed to thee; his guardian thou : And who shall fear this shadow of a name? Hope not from monarchs old, whose shame is fled, Or laws or troth or honour of the gods: New kings bring mildest sway.'Thus rendered by Thomas May, of the Long Parliament: Men used to sceptres are ashamed of nought: The mildest governement a kingdome finds Under new kings. His words prevailed Upon his hearers. With what freedom speaks, When states are trem
M. Annaeus Lucanus, Pharsalia (ed. Sir Edward Ridley), book 8, line 456 (search)
mount Grateful to sailors for its nightly gleam: But to the bounds of Egypt hardly won With battling canvas, where divided Nile Pours through the shallows his Pelusian stream.That is, he reached the most eastern mouth of the Nile instead of the westeNile instead of the western. Now was the season when the heavenly scale Most nearly balances the varying hours, Once only equal; for the wintry day Repays to night her losses of the spring; And Magnus learning that th' Egyptian king Lay by Mount Casius, ere the sun was set Oe At Memphis was the well in which the rise and fall of the water acted as a Nilometer (Mr Haskins's note). Of fertilising Nile. While he was priest Not only once had Apis Comp. Herodotus, Book III., 27. Apis was a god who appeared at intervals in thvictim? By what trust in us 'Cam'st thou, unhappy? Scarce our people tills ' The fields, though softened by the refluent Nile: ' Know well our strength, and know we can no more. 'Rome 'neath the ruin of Pompeius lies: 'Shalt thou, O king, uphold hi
M. Annaeus Lucanus, Pharsalia (ed. Sir Edward Ridley), book 8, line 536 (search)
se Achillas for the work of death; And where the treacherous shore in Casian 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 sword Finds place, or Egypt? 0, mf the victor? 'Twas enough To cause forbearance in a Pharian king, That he was Roman. Wherefore with thy sword Dost stab our breasts? Thou know'st not, impious boy, How stand thy fortunes; now no more by right Hast thou the sceptre of the land of Nile; For prostrate, vanquished in the civil wars Is he who gave it. Furling now his sails, Magnus with oars approached th' accursed land, When in their little boat the murderous crew Drew nigh. and feigning from th' Egyptian court A ready welcome, bla
M. Annaeus Lucanus, Pharsalia (ed. Sir Edward Ridley), book 8, line 637 (search)
His spouse, less patient to behold the crime Than to endure it, filled the airs with cries; '0, husband, whom my wicked self hath slain! 'That lonely isle apart thy bane hath been 'And stayed thy coming. Caesar to the Nile 'Has won before us; for what other hand 'May do such work? But whosoe'er thou art 'Sent from the gods with power, for Caesar's ire, 'Or thine own sake, to slay, thou dost not know 'Where lies the heart of Magnus. Thou dost haste To deal the blow as he would have it fall. 'Le By art nefarious: the shrivelled skin Draws tight upon the bone; and poisonous juice Gives to the face its lineaments in death. Last of thy race, thou base degenerate boy, About to perishHe was drowned in attempting to escape in the battle on the Nile in the following autumn. soon, and yield the throne To thine incestuous sister; while the Prince From Macedon here in consecrated vault Now rests, and ashes of the kings are closed In mighty pyramids, and lofty tombs Of thine unworthy fathers mar
M. Annaeus Lucanus, Pharsalia (ed. Sir Edward Ridley), book 8, line 712 (search)
he boundless measure of his resting-place. Blot out this stone, this proof against the gods! OEta finds room for Hercules alone, And Nysa's mountain for the Bromian god;Dionysus. But this god, though brought up by the nymphs of Mount Nysa, was not supposed to have been buried there. Not all the lands of Egypt should suffice For Magnus dead: and shall one Pharian stone Mark his remains? Yet should no turf disclose His title, peoples of the earth would fear To spurn his ashes, and the sands of Nile No foot would tread. But if the stone deserves So great a name, then add his mighty deeds: Write Lepidus conquered and the Alpine war, And fierce Sertorius by his aiding arm O'erthrown; the chariots which as knight he drove;See Book VII., line 20. Cilician pirates driven from the main, And Commerce safe to nations; Eastern kings Defeated and the barbarous Northern tribes; Write that from arms he ever sought the robe; Write that content upon the Capitol Thrice only triumphed he, nor asked his
M. Annaeus Lucanus, Pharsalia (ed. Sir Edward Ridley), book 8, line 823 (search)
esired to prevent Pompeius from interfering in the affairs of Egypt, in B.C. 57. The stream Pelusian to the Roman arms, And all the banks which in the summer-tide Are covered by his flood. What grievous curse Shall I call down upon thee? May the Nile Turn back his water to his source, thy fields Want for the winter rain, and all the land Crumble to desert wastes! We in our fanes Have known thine Isis and thy hideous gods, Half hounds, half human, and the drum that bids To sorrow, and Osiris, wd, In council given, shalt thou be transferred To thine own city, and the priest shall bear Thy sacred ashes to their last abode. Who now may seek beneath the raging Crab Or hot Syene's waste, or Thebes athirst Under the rainy Pleiades, to gaze On Nile's broad stream; or whoso may exchange On the Red Sea or in Arabian ports Some Eastern merchandise, shall turn in awe To view the venerable stone that marks Thy grave, Pompeius; and shall worship more Thy dust commingled with the arid sand, Thy sha
M. Annaeus Lucanus, Pharsalia (ed. Sir Edward Ridley), book 9, line 1 (search)
r ' Upon the Pharian shore, somewhat of thee ' Recalls, Pompeius! Now the flame sinks down ' And smoke drifts up across the eastern sky ' Bearing thine ashes, and the rising wind ' Sighs hateful in the sail. To me no more ' Dearer than this whatever land has given ' Pompeius victory, nor the frequent car ' That carried him in triumph to the hill; ' Gone is that happy husband from my thoughts; ' Here did I lose the hero whom I knew; ' Here let me stay; his presence shall endear ' The sands of Nile where fell the fatal blow. ' Thou, Sextus, brave the chances of the war 'And bear Pompeius' standard through the world. ' For thus thy father spake within mine ear: ' " When sounds my fatal hour let both my sons ' " Urge on the war; nor let some Caesar find ' " Room for an empire, while shall live on earth ' " Still one in whom Pompeius' blood shall run. ' " This your appointed task; all cities strong ' " In freedom of their own, all kingdoms urge ' " To join the combat; for Pompeius calls. '
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