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So, safe at land, our hopeless peril past,
we offered thanks to Jove, and kindled high
his altars with our feast and sacrifice;
then, gathering on Actium's holy shore,
made fair solemnities of pomp and game.
My youth, anointing their smooth, naked limbs,
wrestled our wonted way. For glad were we,
who past so many isles of Greece had sped
and 'scaped our circling foes. Now had the sun
rolled through the year's full circle, and the waves
were rough with icy winter's northern gales.
I hung for trophy on that temple door
a swelling shield of brass (which once was worn
by mighty Abas) graven with this line:
SPOIL OF AENEAS FROM TRIUMPHANT FOES.
Then from that haven I command them forth;
my good crews take the thwarts, smiting the sea
with rival strokes, and skim the level main.
Soon sank Phaeacia's wind-swept citadels
out of our view; we skirted the bold shores
of proud Epirus, in Chaonian land,
and made Buthrotum's port and towering town.
C. Julius Caesar, Commentaries on the Civil War (ed. William Duncan), CAESAR'S COMMENTARIES of THE CIVIL WAR. , chapter 16 (search)
Caesar was then at Buthrotum, a town over against Corcyra; whither he was gone, with one
legion, to reduce some of the more distant states, and supply himself with
corn, which then began to be scarce. Here, receiving letters from Acilius
and Marcus, with an account of Libo and Bibulus's demands, he left the
legion, and returned to Oricum. Upon his arrival, he invited them to a
conference. Libo appeared, and made an apology for
Bibulus: "That being naturally hasty, and bearing a personal grudge to
Caesar, contracted during the time of his edileship and questorship, he had,
for that reason, declined the interview; to prevent any obstructions from
his presence to the success of so desirable and advantageous a design: that
Pompey was, and ever had