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| Polybius, Histories | 38 | 0 | Browse | Search |
| Herodotus, The Histories (ed. A. D. Godley) | 22 | 0 | Browse | Search |
| Pausanias, Description of Greece | 18 | 0 | Browse | Search |
| Thucydides, The Peloponnesian War | 18 | 0 | Browse | Search |
| Strabo, Geography | 16 | 0 | Browse | Search |
| T. Maccius Plautus, Menaechmi, or The Twin Brothers (ed. Henry Thomas Riley) | 14 | 0 | Browse | Search |
| Plato, Letters | 14 | 0 | Browse | Search |
| Richard Hakluyt, The Principal Navigations, Voyages, Traffiques, and Discoveries of the English Nation | 10 | 0 | Browse | Search |
| Aristotle, Politics | 10 | 0 | Browse | Search |
| Plato, Laws | 6 | 0 | Browse | Search |
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Browsing named entities in M. Annaeus Lucanus, Pharsalia (ed. Sir Edward Ridley). You can also browse the collection for Tarentum (Italy) or search for Tarentum (Italy) in all documents.
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He bids them reach
In ten days' march Brundusium, and recall
From old Tarentum and from Hydrus lone
His navy, and from Leucas' point remote,
And the Salapian marsh where Sipus lies
By rich Garganus, jutting from the shore
In huge escarpment that divides the waves
Of Hadria; on each hand, his seaward slopes
Buffeted by the winds; or Auster borne
From sweet Apulia, or the sterner blast
Of Boreas rushing from Dalmatian strands.
But Caesar entered safe without a guard
Rome, trembling, taught to serve the garb of peace,
Dictator named, to grant their prayers, forsooth:
Consul, in honour of the roll of Rome.
Then first of all the names by which we now
Lie to our masters, men found out the use:
For to preserve his right to wield the sword
He mixed the civil axes with his brands;
With eagles, fasces; with an empty word
Clothing his power; and stamped upon the time
A worthy designation; for what name
Could better mark the dread Pharsalian year
Than 'Caesar, Consul'?Caesar was named Dictator wh