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M. Annaeus Lucanus, Pharsalia (ed. Sir Edward Ridley), book 2, line 526 (search)
alluded to by Horace ('Ars Poetica,' 50) as having worn a garment of ancient fashion leaving their arms bare. (See also Book VI., 944.) with his naked arm? ' Is such thy madness, Caesar? when the Fates ' With great Camillus' and Metellus' names ' Might place thine own, dost thou prefer to rank ' With Marius and Cinna? Swift shall be ' Thy fall: as Lepidus before the sword ' Of Catulus; or who my axes felt, ' Carbo,In B.C. 77, after the death of Sulla. Carbo had been defeated by Pompeius in 81 B.C., on which occasion Pompeius had, at the early age of twenty-five, demanded and obtained his first triumph. The war with Sertorius lasted till 71 B.C., when Pompeius and Metellus triumphed in respect of his overthrow. now buried in Sicanian tomb; ' Or who, in exile, roused Iberia's hordes, ' Sertorius-yet, witness Heaven, with these ' I hate to rank thee; hate the task that Rome ' Has laid upon me, to oppose thy rage. ' Would that in safety from the Parthian war ' And Scythian steppes had
M. Annaeus Lucanus, Pharsalia (ed. Sir Edward Ridley), book 7, line 1 (search)
o the sun finding fuel in the clouds, see Book I., line 472. But lest his light upon Thessalian earth Might fall undimmed. Pompeius on that morn, To him the latest day of happy life, In troubled sleep an empty dream conceived. For in the watches of the night he heard Innumerable Romans shout his name Within his theatre; the benches vied To raise his fame and place him with the gods; As once in youth, when victory was won O'er conquered tribes whom swift Iberus girds,Pompeius triumphed first in 81 B.C. for his victories in Sicily and Africa, at the age of twenty-four. Sulla at first objected, but finally yielded and said, 'Let him triumph then in God's name.' The triumph for the defeat of Sertorius was not till 71 B.C., in which year Pompeius was elected Consul along with Crassus. (Compare Book IX., 706.) And when Sertorius' armies fought and fled, He sat triumphant for the west subdued, In pure white gown, and heard the Senate cheer; No less majestic as a Roman knight Than had the purp
M. Annaeus Lucanus, Pharsalia (ed. Sir Edward Ridley), book 9, line 511 (search)
l the humblest follower might drink Stood motionless. If for the truly good Is fame, and virtue by the deed itself, Not by successful issue, should be judged, Yield, famous ancestors! Fortune, not worth Gained you your glory. But such name as his Who ever merited by successful war Or slaughtered peoples? Rather would I lead With him his triumphs through the pathless sands And Libya's bounds, than in Pompeius' car Three times ascend the Capitol,1st. For his victories in Sicily and Africa, B.C. 81; 2nd. For the conquest of Sertorius, B.C. 71; 3rd. For his Eastern triumphs, B.C. 61. (Compare Book VIII., 953; VII., 16.) or break The proud Jugurtha.Over whom Marius triumphed. Rome! in him behold His country's father, worthiest of thy vows; A name by which men shall not blush to swear, Whom, shouldst thou break the fetters from thy neck, Thou mayst in distant days decree divine. Now was the heat more dense, and through that clime Than which no further on the Southern side The gods permit