M. Annaei Lvcani De bello civili liber VIIIThe University Press, 1917 - 146 pages |
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Page 130 - On Linden, when the sun was low, All bloodless lay the untrodden snow ; And dark as winter was the flow Of Iser, rolling rapidly. But Linden saw another sight, When the drum beat at dead of night, Commanding fires of death to light The darkness of her scenery.
Page 77 - Upon the word, Accoutred as I was, I plunged in And bade him follow : so indeed he did. The torrent roar'd, and we did buffet it With lusty sinews, throwing it aside And stemming it with hearts of controversy ; But ere we could arrive the point proposed, Caesar cried ' Help me, Cassius, or I sink...
Page cxi - ... sunt autem optimae curae de salute patriae, quibus agitatus et exercitatus animus uelocius in hanc sedem et domum suam peruolabit...
Page xxx - Crassorum domo recipiebas nisi ut minueretur magnitudo tua? " 40. Scholium ad Lucan. Pharsalia X. 471 : Legati. quos rex miserat, duo fuerunt, quorum unus erat Dioscorides et alter Serapio. Ex his unus occisus est, ut Titus Livius meminit libro quarto (belli civilis).
Page xc - Eripis et populis donas mortalibus aevum. Invidia sacrae, Caesar, ne tangere famae ; Nam, si quid Latiis fas est promittere Musis, Quantum Zmyrnaei durabunt vatis honores, Venturi me teque legent ; Pharsalia nostra 985 Vivet, et a nullo tenebris damnabimur aevo.
Page 94 - For dear is the Emerald Isle of the Ocean, Whose daughters are fair as the foam of the wave, Whose sons, unaccustomed to rebel commotion, Tho' joyous are sober, tho
Page 26 - His soliloquy by the side of the corpse. postquam sicco iam litore sedit, incubuit Magno lacrimasque effudit in omne uolnus et ad superos obscuraque sidera fatur : ' Non pretiosa petit cumulate ture sepulcra Pompeius, Fortuna, tuus ; non, pinguis ad astra 730 ut ferat e membris Eoos fumus odores, ut Romana suum gestent pia colla parentem, praeferat ut ueteres feralis pompa triumphos, ut resonent tristi cantu fora, totus ut ignes proiectis maerens exercitus ambiat armis.
Page 34 - Pompeio rebus adempto 205 nunc et ficta perit. non iam regnare pudebit, nee color imperii nee frons erit ulla senatus. o felix, cui summa dies fuit obuia uicto et cui quaerendos Pharium scelus obtulit enses ! forsitan in soceri potuisses uiuere regno.
Page 13 - Non haec fiducia genti est. Omnis in Arctois populus quicumque pruinis Nascitur, indomitus bellis et mortis amator : Quidquid ad Eoos tractus mundique teporem 365 Ibitur, emollit gentes dementia caeli.
Page lx - Curti ac relictus ita uti erat, donec gregarius miles a frumentatione rediens abiecto onere caput ei amputavit; et quoniam capillo arripere non poterat, in gremium abdidit, mox inserto per os pollice ad Othonem detulit. ille lixis calonibusque donavit, qui hasta suffixum non sine ludibrio circum castra portarunt adclamantes identidem: 'Galba Cupido, fruaris aetate tua...