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Italy (Italy) (search for this): book 2, card 439
Caesar, in rage for war, rejoicing finds Foes in Italia; no bloodless steps Nor vacant homes had pleased him;See the note to Book I., 165. In reality Caesar found little resistance, and did not ravage the country. so his march Were wasted: now the coming war was joined Unbroken to the past; to force the gates, Not find them open, fire and sword to bring Upon the harvests, not through fields unharmed To pass his legions-this was Caesar's joy; In peaceful guise to march, this was his shame. ItalItalia's cities, doubtful in their choice, Though to the earliest onset of the war About to yield, strengthen their walls with mounds And deepest trench encircling: massive stones And bolts of war to hurl upon the foe They place upon the turrets. Magnus most The people's favour held, yet faith with fear Fought in their breasts. As when, with strident blast, A southern tempest has possessed the main And all the billows follow in its track: Then, by the Storm-king smitten, should the earth Set Eurus f
Asculum (Italy) (search for this): book 2, card 439
tune, o'er their wavering faith. For Libo fled Etruria; Umbria lost Her freedom, driving Thermus Thermus, to whom Iguvium had been entrusted by the Senate, was compelled to quit it owing to the disaffection of the inhabitants. (Merivale, chapter xiv.) Auximon in a similar way rose against Varus. from her bounds; Great Sulla's son, unworthy of his sire, Feared at the name of Caesar: Varus sought The caves and woods, when smote the hostile horse The gates of Auximon; and Spinther driven From Asculum, the victor on his track, Fled with his standards, soldierless; and thou, Scipio, didst leave Nuceria's citadel Deserted, though by bravest legions held Sent home by Caesar for the Parthian war; After Caesar's campaign with the Nervii, Pompeius had lent him a legion. When the Parthian war broke out and the Senate required each of the two leaders to supply a legion for it, Pompeius demanded the return of the legion which he had sent to Gaul; and Caesar returned it, together with one of his o
Melos (Greece) (search for this): book 2, card 439
When the Parthian war broke out and the Senate required each of the two leaders to supply a legion for it, Pompeius demanded the return of the legion which he had sent to Gaul; and Caesar returned it, together with one of his own. They were, however, retained in Italy. Whom Magnus earlier, to his kinsman gave A loan of Roman blood, to fight the Gaul. But brave Domitius held firm his post See Book VII., 695. Behind Corfinium's ramparts; his the troops Who newly levied kept the judgment hall At Milo's trial.Book I., 370. When from far the plain Rolled up a dusty cloud, beneath whose veil The sheen of armour glistening in the sun, Revealed a marching host. ' Dash down,' he cried, Swift as ye can, the bridge that spans the stream; And thou, O river, from thy mountain source With all thy torrents rushing, planks and beams Ruined and broken on thy foaming breast Bear onward to the sea. The war shall pause Here, at these bounds : here shall this headlong chief Await in idleness our victory.'
Umbria (Italy) (search for this): book 2, card 439
gnus most The people's favour held, yet faith with fear Fought in their breasts. As when, with strident blast, A southern tempest has possessed the main And all the billows follow in its track: Then, by the Storm-king smitten, should the earth Set Eurus free upon the swollen deep, It shall not yield to him, though cloud and sky Confess his strength; but in the former wind Still find its master. But their fears prevailed, And Caesar's fortune, o'er their wavering faith. For Libo fled Etruria; Umbria lost Her freedom, driving Thermus Thermus, to whom Iguvium had been entrusted by the Senate, was compelled to quit it owing to the disaffection of the inhabitants. (Merivale, chapter xiv.) Auximon in a similar way rose against Varus. from her bounds; Great Sulla's son, unworthy of his sire, Feared at the name of Caesar: Varus sought The caves and woods, when smote the hostile horse The gates of Auximon; and Spinther driven From Asculum, the victor on his track, Fled with his standards, sold
Corfinium (search for this): book 2, card 439
ar; After Caesar's campaign with the Nervii, Pompeius had lent him a legion. When the Parthian war broke out and the Senate required each of the two leaders to supply a legion for it, Pompeius demanded the return of the legion which he had sent to Gaul; and Caesar returned it, together with one of his own. They were, however, retained in Italy. Whom Magnus earlier, to his kinsman gave A loan of Roman blood, to fight the Gaul. But brave Domitius held firm his post See Book VII., 695. Behind Corfinium's ramparts; his the troops Who newly levied kept the judgment hall At Milo's trial.Book I., 370. When from far the plain Rolled up a dusty cloud, beneath whose veil The sheen of armour glistening in the sun, Revealed a marching host. ' Dash down,' he cried, Swift as ye can, the bridge that spans the stream; And thou, O river, from thy mountain source With all thy torrents rushing, planks and beams Ruined and broken on thy foaming breast Bear onward to the sea. The war shall pause Here, at
Iguvium (Italy) (search for this): book 2, card 439
ght in their breasts. As when, with strident blast, A southern tempest has possessed the main And all the billows follow in its track: Then, by the Storm-king smitten, should the earth Set Eurus free upon the swollen deep, It shall not yield to him, though cloud and sky Confess his strength; but in the former wind Still find its master. But their fears prevailed, And Caesar's fortune, o'er their wavering faith. For Libo fled Etruria; Umbria lost Her freedom, driving Thermus Thermus, to whom Iguvium had been entrusted by the Senate, was compelled to quit it owing to the disaffection of the inhabitants. (Merivale, chapter xiv.) Auximon in a similar way rose against Varus. from her bounds; Great Sulla's son, unworthy of his sire, Feared at the name of Caesar: Varus sought The caves and woods, when smote the hostile horse The gates of Auximon; and Spinther driven From Asculum, the victor on his track, Fled with his standards, soldierless; and thou, Scipio, didst leave Nuceria's citadel D