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M. Annaeus Lucanus, Pharsalia (ed. Sir Edward Ridley), book 3, line 169 (search)
served the secrets of their magic art. Next Persean Tarsus and high Taurus' groves Are left deserted, and Corycium's cave; And all Cilicia's ports, pirate no more, Resound with preparation. Nor the East Refused the call, where furthest Ganges dares, Alone of rivers, to discharge his stream Against the sun opposing; on this shoreHe did not in fact reach the Ganges, as is well known. The Macedonian conqueror stayed his foot And found the world his victor; Indus rolls Here his vast torrent, by Hydaspes joined Yet scarce augmented; here from luscious reed Men draw sweet liquor; here they dye their locks With tints of saffron, and with coloured gems Bind down their flowing garments; here are they, Who satiate of life and proud to die, Ascend the blazing pyre, and conquering fate, Scorn to live longer; but triumphant give The remnant of their days in flame to heaven.Perhaps in allusion to the embassy from India to Augustus in B.C. 19, when Zarmanochanus, an Indian sage, declaring that he had
M. Annaeus Lucanus, Pharsalia (ed. Sir Edward Ridley), book 8, line 211 (search)
t. '" And you, ye Parthians, if when I sought '"The Caspian gates, and on th' Alaunian tribes " Fierce, ever-warring, pressed, I suffered you " In Persian tracts to wander, nor compelled " To seek for shelter Babylonian walls; " If beyond Cyrus' kingdom Pompeius seems to have induced the Roman public to believe that he had led his armies to such extreme distances, but he never in fact did so. - Mommsen, vol. iv., p. 147. and the bounds " Of wide Chaldaea, where from Nysa's top '"Pours down Hydaspes, and the Ganges stream ' Foams to the ocean, nearer far I stood '" Than Persia's bounds to Phoebus' rising fires; '" If by my sufferance, Parthians, you alone '" Decked not my triumphs, but in equal state " Sole of all Eastern princes, face to face " Met Magnus in his pride, nor only once ' Through me were saved; (for after that dread day " Who but Pompeius soothed the kindling fires " Of Latium's anger?) - by my service paid '"Come forth to victory : burst the ancient bounds ' By Macedon's