"Let Crassus' ghost and Labienus tell |How twice in Parthian plains their legions fell.|Since Rome hath been so jealous of her fame,|That few know Pacorus' or Monaeses' name'(Roscommon, Essay on Translated Verse). bis: three defeats are known: that of Crassus, B.C. 53; that of Decidius Saxa by Pacorus, son of the Parthian king Orodes, B.C. 40; avenged by Ventidius, B.C. 38 (cf. Ant. and Cle.3.1); the disastrous repulse of Antony, B.C. 36. A Monaeses is mentioned (Dio, 49.23.24) as an exiled pretendant to the Parthian throne, supported by Antony. Horace cared as little for the historical details as we do. manus:4.11.9; Epode 16.4.
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Horace. Odes and Epodes. Edited with commentary by. Paul Shorey. revised by. Paul Shorey and Gordon J. Laing. New York. Benj. H. Sanborn and Co. 1910.
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