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Pindar, Nemean (ed. Diane Arnson Svarlien),
Nemean 10
For Theaeus of Argos
Wrestling
?444 B. C. (search)
Atilius Meets the Gauls
Just at that time the Consul Gaius Atilius had crossed
Atilius landing at Pisa intercepts the march of the Gauls.
from Sardinia, and having landed at Pisae was
on his way to Rome; and therefore he and
the enemy were advancing to meet each
other. When the Celts were at Telamon in
Etruria, their advanced guard fell in with that of Gaius, and
the men being made prisoners informed the Consul in answer
to questions of what had taken place; and told him that both the
armies were in the neighbourhood: that of the Celts, namely,
and that of Lucius close upon their rear. Though somewhat
disturbed at the events which he thus learnt, Gaius regarded
the situation as a hopeful one, when he considered that the
Celts were on the road between two hostile armies. He therefore ordered the Tribunes to martial the legions and to advance
at the ordinary pace, and in line as far as the breadth of the
ground permitted; while he himself having surveyed a piece
of rising ground which c
Peace the Only Unquestioned Blessing
But in the course of time, when the Arcadians advanced
The ancient privileges of Elis lost.
a claim for Lasion and the whole district of Pisa, being
forced to defend their territory and change their
habits of life, they no longer troubled themselves in the least about recovering from the
Greeks their ancient and ancestral immunity from pillage,
but were content to remain exactly as they were. This in my
opinion was a short-sighted policy. For peace is a thing we
all desire, and are willing to submit to anything to obtain: it is
the only one of our so-called blessings that no one questions. If
then there are people who, having the opportunity of obtaining
it, with justice and honour, from the Greeks, without question
and for perpetuity, neglect to do so, or regard other objects as
of superior importance to it, must we not look upon them as
undoubtedly blind to their true interests? But if it be objected
that, by adopting such a mode of life, they wo
P. Ovidius Naso, Metamorphoses (ed. Brookes More), Book 5, line 487 (search)
But if fierce squadrons and the ranks of war
Delight thee rather, or on wheels to glide
At Pisa, with Alpheus fleeting by,
And in the grove of Jupiter urge on
The flying chariot, be your steed's first task
To face the warrior's armed rage, and brook
The trumpet, and long roar of rumbling wheels,
And clink of chiming bridles in the stall;
Then more and more to love his master's voice
Caressing, or loud hand that claps his neck.
Ay, thus far let him learn to dare, when first
Weaned from his mother, and his mouth at times
Yield to the supple halter, even while yet
Weak, tottering-limbed, and ignorant of life.
But, three years ended, when the fourth arrives,
Now let him tarry not to run the ring
With rhythmic hoof-beat echoing, and now learn
Alternately to curve each bending leg,
And be like one that struggleth; then at last
Challenge the winds to race him, and at speed
Launched through the open, like a reinless thing,
Scarce print his footsteps on the surface-sand.
As when with power from
Cynthia Ode
HIPPODAMIAdaughter of Oenomaus, king of Pisa in Elis, and wife of Pelops. See Poem 2 note.
She's staying! She swore she'll remain! My enemies be damned!
We won: she gave in to unrelenting prayers.
Desirous envy can drop its false joys:
Cynthia's mine: she's abandoned going new ways.
She loves me. And with me, she calls Rome paradise.
Without me, she'll see no exotic kingdoms.
On the contrary, she prefers relaxing with me
on a narrow couch, mine on any terms,
to visiting the ancient kingdom of wealthy Hippodamia
and the riches Elis once procured with its horses.
Though he gave her much and promised more,
still she doesn't give in to greed and desert my embrace.
I was able to sway her not with gold, nor with Indian
conches, but with the blandishment of smooth, alluring poetry.
So there are Muses, Apollo does not desert the lover.
Trusting them, I love. Rare Cynthia is mine!
Now I touch the highest stars with the soles of my feet.
Whether day or night, she is mine!
My
P. Ovidius Naso, Metamorphoses (ed. Arthur Golding), Book 5, line 487 (search)
Cornelius Tacitus, The History (ed. Alfred John Church, William Jackson Brodribb), BOOK
III, chapter 42 (search)
The garrison of Ariminum were discouraged by the departure of Valens,
and Cornelius Fuscus, bringing up his army and disposing his Liburnian ships
at the nearest points of the shore, invested the place by sea and land. His
troops occupied the plains of Umbria and that
portion of the Picentine territory that is washed by the Adriatic, and now the whole of Italy was divided by the range of the Apennines between Vespasian and Vitellius. Valens,
having started from the bay of Pisa, was compelled,
either by a calm or a contrary wind, to put in at the port of Hercules
Monœcus. Near this place was stationed Marius Maturus, procurator of
the Maritime Alps, who was loyal to Vitellius, and
who, though every thing around him was hostile, had not yet thrown off his
allegiance. While courteously receiving Valens, he deterred him by his
advice from rashly invading Gallia Narbonensis. And
now the fidelity of the rest of the party was weakened by their fears. In
fact the procurator Valer
C. Suetonius Tranquillus, Divus Julius (ed. Alexander Thomson), chapter 1 (search)