A Pharian triumph, Caesar in her train; And 'twas in doubt upon Leucadian (4) waves Whether a woma...
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Shall rob you, victors, of a world subdued -- Ye flee the war, and on your abject necks Feel for t...
Nor seeks again his banks, until the sun In equal balance measures night and day. Nor are the laws...
Lies ever fruitless, save that by the shore The hardy Nasamon plucks a scanty grass. Unclothed the...
Nor do they dare a combat hand to hand; But as the winds may suffer, from afar They draw their bow...
Finds place, or Egypt? O, may civil war Be thus far faithful that the hand which strikes Be of our...
Struck not in answer; Magnus' swords were cold, But Caesar's reeked with slaughter and with guilt. ...
Lest he should want all burial. Pale with fear Came Cordus, hasting from his hiding place; Quaesto...
In vain, unhappy! for the fates decree He shall behold, shorn from the bleeding trunk, Again thy v...
(4) Sextus. (5) Tetrarch of Galatia. He was always friendly to Rome, and in the civil war sided wi...
Sent forth its denizens; on every tree Dripped from their crimsoned beaks a gory dew. Oft on the c...
Ride on the seas and fail to find a fleet. Urged by his sire's unconquerable will And mindful of h...
For the sequestered shores of Lesbos isle; For there wert thou, sharer of all his griefs, Cornelia...
To test the faith of peoples of the East Who drink of Tigris and Euphrates' stream, Secure as yet ...
Scarce had he paused; they snatch the hasty meal, And seize their armour and with swift acclaim We...