In search of truth, should gain a sure response. Then speak, I pray thee. Let the hidden fates Tel...
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Fortune, that Caesar summoned to the shades, Dictator, Consul, full of honours, died Ere his last ...
(41) See Book II., 609. (42) The Gracchi, the younger of whom aimed at being a perpetual tribune, ...
and were told to found colonies. (11) See Herodotus, Book VII., 140-143. The reference is to the a...
Scarce lifted from the earth; bedewed with tears; No more of Rome the standards, (7) or her state. ...
Blent with the living. Yet their camp was pitched Hard by the breezy sea by which might come All n...
Scarce had he paused; they snatch the hasty meal, And seize their armour and with swift acclaim We...
And coming found the rampart overthrown, The dust no longer stirred, the rains cold As from a batt...
There were Thessalian rocks with deadly herbs Thick planted, sensible to magic chants, Funereal, s...
And winds I call unceasing: hold not back Thy willing troops, but let them dare the sea; Here glad...
No longer we withstand. Unto thy will We yield the western tribes: the east is thine And all the w...
Would seem the sweeter, by delay of death Thus granted. But the band devoted stood, Proud of their...
(The front rank with their bucklers interlaced And held above their helms), the missiles fell Behi...
(22) Curio was tribune in B.C. 50. His earlier years are stated to have been stained with vice. (2...
Hacked off their straining arms; then maimed they sank Below the seething waves, to rise no more. ...