Scarce lifted from the earth; bedewed with tears; No more of Rome the standards, (7) or her state. ...
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(41) See Book II., 609. (42) The Gracchi, the younger of whom aimed at being a perpetual tribune, ...
In search of truth, should gain a sure response. Then speak, I pray thee. Let the hidden fates Tel...
It had been easy to compel the gods To its accomplishment. My art has power When of one man the co...
There were Thessalian rocks with deadly herbs Thick planted, sensible to magic chants, Funereal, s...
And coming found the rampart overthrown, The dust no longer stirred, the rains cold As from a batt...
Blent with the living. Yet their camp was pitched Hard by the breezy sea by which might come All n...
and were told to found colonies. (11) See Herodotus, Book VII., 140-143. The reference is to the a...
Fortune, that Caesar summoned to the shades, Dictator, Consul, full of honours, died Ere his last ...
And winds I call unceasing: hold not back Thy willing troops, but let them dare the sea; Here glad...
And thus while anger stirred his soul began: "Thou that with voice and hand didst rage but now Aga...
Of Phocian laurels crowns the locks that flow Upon her shoulders. Hesitating yet The priest compel...
(22) Curio was tribune in B.C. 50. His earlier years are stated to have been stained with vice. (2...
Would seem the sweeter, by delay of death Thus granted. But the band devoted stood, Proud of their...
No longer we withstand. Unto thy will We yield the western tribes: the east is thine And all the w...