And winds I call unceasing: hold not back Thy willing troops, but let them dare the sea; Here glad...
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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...
Shall launch itself on thee, for who, when faint And wounded, would not rush upon thy sword, Take ...
Foes in Italia; no bloodless steps Nor vacant homes had pleased him (19); so his march Were wasted...
And tempests lose their strength: on either hand A craggy cliff opposing breaks the gale That beat...
He that denies them makes our quarrel just. Nay! use the strength that we have made our own. No bo...
of filthy lucre is like upbraiding Hercules with cowardice." After the marriage Marcia remained at ...
And plunged the world in darkness, so that men Despaired of day -- like as he veiled his light Fro...
As yet unopened. 'Tis the love of gold Alone that fears not death; no hand is raised For perished ...
level of the water in the Corinthian Gulf was higher than that in the Saronic Gulf, so that, if the...
Thus Fortune called them: and a world in arms Witnessed his ruin. From where Afric's god, Two-horn...
That neck to sever. Many a death he owes To time's predestined laws ere his shall come; Cease from...
Pharsalia, [Civil War] by Marcus Annaeus Lucanus BOOK I THE CROSSING OF THE RUBICON Wars worse t...