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M. Annaeus Lucanus, Pharsalia (ed. Sir Edward Ridley), book 1, line 33 (search)
ut in rays direct Vouchsafe thy radiance to thy city Rome. Press thou on either side, the universe Should lose its equipoise: take thou the midst, And weight the scales, and let that part of heaven Where Caesar sits be evermore serene And smile upon us with unclouded blue. Then may all men lay down their arms, and peace Through all the nations reign, and shut the gates That close the temple of the God of War. Be thou my help, to me e'en now divine! Let Delphi's steep her own Apollo guard, And Nysa keep her Bacchus, uninvoked. Rome is my subject and my muse art thou! First of such deeds I purpose to unfold The causes task immense what drove to arms A maddened nation and from all the world Struck peace away. By envious fate's decrees Abide not long the mightiest lords of earth; Too great the burden, great shall be the fall. Thus Rome o'ergrew her strength. So when that hour, The last in all the centuries, shall sound The world's disruption, all things shall revert To that primaeval chaos
M. Annaeus Lucanus, Pharsalia (ed. Sir Edward Ridley), book 8, line 211 (search)
chers, wing the fatal shaft. '" 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 anc