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M. Annaeus Lucanus, Pharsalia (ed. Sir Edward Ridley), book 7, line 87 (search)
that peoples whom their latest day Of happy life awaited (if the mind Of man foreknows) should tremble with affright? Romans who dwelt by far Araxes' stream, And Tyrian Gades,Gades (Cadiz) is stated to have been founded by the Phoenicians about 1000 BC. in whatever clime, 'Neath every sky, struck by mysterious dread Were plunged in sorrow-yet rebuked the tear, For yet they knew not of the fatal day. Thus on Euganean hills This alludes to the story told by Plutarch ('Caesar,' 47), that, at Patavium, Caius Cornelius, a man reputed for skill in divination, and a friend of Livy the historian, was sitting to watch the birds that day. 'And first of all (as Livius says) he discovered the time of the battle, and he said to those present that the affair was now deciding and the men were going into action. Looking again, and observing the signs, he sprang up with enthusiasm and called out, "You conquer, Caesar."' (Long's translation.) where sulphurous fumes Disclose the rise of Aponus The Fo