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M. Annaeus Lucanus, Pharsalia (ed. Sir Edward Ridley), book 2, line 326 (search)
In fabled lore His banks were first by poplar shade enclosed:Phaethon's sisters, who yoked the horses of the Sun to the chariot for their brother, were turned into poplars. Phaethon was flung by Jupiter into the river Po. And when by Phaethon the waning day Was drawn in path transverse, and all the heaven Blazed with his car aflame, and from the depths Of inmost earth were rapt all other floods, Padus still rolled in pride of stream along. Nile were no larger, but that o'er the sand Of level Egypt he spreads out his waves; Nor Ister, if he sought the Scythian main Unhelped upon his journey through the world By tributary waters not his own. But on the right hand Tiber has his source, Deep-flowing Rutuba, Vulturnus swift, And Sarnus breathing vapours of the nightSarnus, site of the battle in which Narses defeated Teias, the last of the Ostrogoths, in 553 A.D. Rise there, and Liris with Vestinian wave Still gliding through Marica's shady grove, And Siler flowing through Salernian meads:
M. Annaeus Lucanus, Pharsalia (ed. Sir Edward Ridley), book 2, line 628 (search)
ous ship The 'Argo.' sought Phasis' stream The rocky gates closed in and hardly gripped Her flying stern; then from the empty sea The cliffs rebounding to their ancient seat Were fixed to move no more. But now the steps Of morn approaching tinged the eastern sky With roseate hues: the Pleiades were dim, The wagon of the Charioteer grew pale, The planets faded, and the silvery star Which ushers in the day, was lost in light. Thou, Magnus, hold'st the deep; yet not the same Now are thy fates, as when from every sea Thy fleet triumphant swept the pirate pest. Tired of thy conquests, Fortune now no more Shall smile upon thee. With thy spouse and sons, Thy household gods, and peoples in thy train, Still great in exile, in a distant land Thou seek'st thy fated fall; not that the gods, Wishing to rob thee of a Roman grave, Decreed the strands of Egypt for thy tomb: 'Twas Italy they spared, that far away Fortune on shores remote might hide her crime, And Roman soil be pure of Magnus' blood.
M. Annaeus Lucanus, Pharsalia (ed. Sir Edward Ridley), book 3, line 169 (search)
ere driven into the enclosure. It is not unlikely that they piled their weapons before being so measured, and Lucan's account would then be made to agree with that of Herodotus. Francken, on the other hand, quotes a Scholiast, who says that each hundredth man shot off an arrow. See Mr. J. A. R. Munro's paper in vol. xxii. of the Hellenic Society's publications, at p. 296. The Persian told the number of his host; Nor when th' avenger Agamemnon. of a brother's shame Loaded the billows with his mighty fleet, Beneath one chief so many kings made war; Nor e'er met nations varied thus in garb And thus in language. To Pompeius' death Thus Fortune called them: and a world in arms Witnessed his ruin. From where Afric's god, Two-horned Ammon, rears his temple, came All Libya ceaseless, from the wastes that touch The bounds of Egypt to the shore that meets The Western Ocean. Thus, to award the prize Of Empire at one blow, Pharsalia brought 'Neath Caesar's conquering hand the banded world.
M. Annaeus Lucanus, Pharsalia (ed. Sir Edward Ridley), book 5, line 1 (search)
efs Of Thracian tribes, fit honours were bestowed. They order Libya by their high decree To serve King Juba's sceptre; and, alas! On Ptolemaeus, of a faithless race The faithless sovereign, scandal to the gods, And shame to Fortune, placed the diadem Of Pella. Boy! against the common herd Fierce is thy weapon. Ah, if that were all! The fatal gift gave, too, Pompeius' life; Bereft thy sister of her sire's bequest,By the will of Ptolemy Auletes, Cleopatra had been appointed joint sovereign of Egypt with her young brother. Lucan means that Caesar would have killed Pompeius if young Ptolemy had not done so. She lost her share of the kingdom, and Caesar was clear of the crime. Half of the kingdom: Caesar of a crime. Then all to arms. While soldier thus and chief, In doubtful sort, against their hidden fate Devised their counsel, Appius Appius was Proconsul, and in command of Achaia, for the Senate. only feared To face the chances of the war, and sought Through Phoebus' ancient oracle to
M. Annaeus Lucanus, Pharsalia (ed. Sir Edward Ridley), book 6, line 750 (search)
ive 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 and Asia and Libya's plains,Cnaeus was killed in Spain after the battle of Munda; Sextus at Miletus; Pompeius himself, of course, in Egypt. ' Which saw your conquests, now shall hold alike ' Your burial-place-nor has the earth for you ' A happier land than this.' His task performed, He stands in mournful guise, with silent look Asking for death again; yet could not die Till mystic herb and magic chant prevailed. For nature's law, once used, had power no more To slay the corpse and set the spirit free. With plenteous wood she builds the funeral pyre To which the dead man comes: then as the flames Seized on his form outstretched,
M. Annaeus Lucanus, Pharsalia (ed. Sir Edward Ridley), book 7, line 557 (search)
l the nobles with their mighty names Of ancient prowess; there Metellus' sons, Corvini, Lepidi, Torquati too, Not once nor twice the conquerors of kings, First of all men, Pompeius' name except, Lay dead upon the field. But, Brutus, where, Where was thy sword? Plutarch states that Brutus after the battle escaped and made his way to Larissa, whence he wrote to Caesar. Caesar, pleased that he was alive, asked him to come to him; and it was on Brutus' opinion that Caesar determined to hurry to Egypt as the most probable refuge of Pompeius. Caesar entrusted Brutus with the command of Cisalpine Gaul when he was in Africa. Veiled by a common helm Unknown thou wanderest. Thy country's pride, Hope of the Senate, thou (for none besides); Thou latest scion of that race of pride, Whose fearless deeds the centuries record, Tempt not the battle, nor provoke the doom! Awaits thee on Philippi's fated field Thy Thessaly. Not here shalt thou prevail 'Gainst Caesar's life. Not yet hath he surpassed T
M. Annaeus Lucanus, Pharsalia (ed. Sir Edward Ridley), book 7, line 647 (search)
nsman. How shall he Enter the city, who on such a field Finds happiness? Whate'er in lands unknown Thine exiled lot, whate'er the Pharian king May place upon thee, trust thou in the gods; Trust the long story of the favouring fates: 'Twere worse to conquer. Then forbid the tear, The nation's grief, the weeping of mankind, And let the world adore thee in defeat As in thy triumphs. With unaltered gaze Look down upon the kings, thy subjects still; Look on the realms and cities which they hold, Egypt and Libya, gifts from thee of yore; And choose the country that befits thy death. Larissa first was witness of thy fall, Thy noble mien, as victor of the fates; And loud in sorrow, yet with gifts of price Fit for a conqueror flung back her gates And poured her citizens forth. ' Our homes and fanes To thee are open; would it were our lot With thee to perish; of thy mighty name Still much survives and conquered by thyself, Thyself alone, still couldst thou to the war All nations call and chall
M. Annaeus Lucanus, Pharsalia (ed. Sir Edward Ridley), book 8, line 211 (search)
nd the fame alone ' Of our great deeds of glory in the past ' Shall now protect us, and the world unchanged 'Still love its hero. Weigh upon the scales Ye chiefs, which best may help the needs of Rome, 'In faith and armies; or the Parthian realm 'Egypt or Libya. For myself, I keep 'No secret thoughts apart, but thus advise. 'Place no reliance on the Pharian king: 'Faith, to be constant, needs a riper age; 'Nor on th' unstable cunning of the Moor, Who vain of Punic blood, and of descentJuba was share ' Her ills, and fall enfeebled. When the arms ' Of Caesar meet with Parthian in the fray, ' Then must kind Fortune vindicate my lot 'Or Crassus be avenged.' But murmurs rose, And Magnus speaking knew his words condemned. Then Lentulus Probably Lucius Lentulus Crus, who had been Consul, for B.C. 49, along with Caius Marcellus. (See Book V., 9.) He was murdered in Egypt by Ptolemy's ministers. answered, with indignant soul, Foremost to rouse their valour, thus in words Worthy a Consul:
M. Annaeus Lucanus, Pharsalia (ed. Sir Edward Ridley), book 8, line 331 (search)
ring shades have looked '" For vengeance and for war, seek from the foe '"A treaty and a peace? " And there profuse Shall meet thee sad memorials 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:
M. Annaeus Lucanus, Pharsalia (ed. Sir Edward Ridley), book 8, line 456 (search)
ts southern cape, and struck across the main With winds transverse and tides; nor reached the 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 oldst not reign, 'Resign thy sceptre, for the ties of blood 'Speak for thy banished sister. Let her rule 'O'er Nile and Pharos: we shall at the least 'Preserve our Egypt from the Latian arms. 'What Magnus owned not ere the war was done, No more shall Caesar. Driven from all the world, 'Trusting no more to Fortune, now he seeks 'So one ensanguined heap, 'By him deserted. Victim of the blow 'Thessalia dealt, refused in every land, ' He asks for help from ours not yet betrayed. ' But none than Egypt with this chief from Rome ' Has juster quarrel; who has sought with arms ' To stain our Pharos, distant from the strife 'And peaceful ever, and to make our realm '
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