'Tis done. And sire to son shall tell What on Emathian plains befell, A God-ordain'd disaster; How justice dealt the even blow, And Rome that laid the nations low Herself hath found a master. Oh, had thou known thyself to rule, That train'd the world in thy stern school, Fate might have gentlier dealt; but now Thyself thy proper Fury, thou Hast struck the avenging blow. On sandy Afric's treacherous shore, Fresh from red Pharsaly's streaming gore, Lies Rome with Pompey low. J. S. B. INVERURY, 1847. FOOTNOTES: [15] The Rubicon, which is a small torrent, a little north of _Rimini_ (_Ariminum_), flowing into the Hadriatic, was, at the time of Caesar's famous passage, swollen to a considerable stream by three days' rain.--LUCAN, i. 213-19. [16] "'Hic,' ait--'hic pacem temerataque jura relinquo. Te, Fortuna, sequor, procul hinc jam foedera sunto; Credidunus Fatis, uterdum est judice bello.'"--LUCAN, i. 227. [17] Caesar met with no opposition in his march to Rome except from Domitius Aenobarbus, who was stationed at Corfinium, amid the Apennines, east of the Eucine lake. The line of march which Caesarr took, through Picenum, was, as Gibbon has remarked, calculated at once to clear his rear of the Pompeian party, and to frighten Pompey himself, not only out of Rome, but, as actually happened, out of Italy. [18] Pompey fled to _Capua_, passing the marshes of _Minturnae_ at the mouth of the _Liris_ (now the Garigliano), and from thence over the Apennines, by the Via Appia, to Brundusium in the ancient _Calabria_. [19] An allusion to the battle of _Cynoscephalae_, which subjected Macedonia to the Romans (B. C. 197.) The scene of this battle was on the same plain of Thessaly through which the Enipeus flows into the Peneus, passing by Pharsalus in its course. This alludes to the battle of Dyrrachium, where Pompey was successful for a moment, only to revive in his party that vain confidence and shallow conceit which was their original ruin. [20] _Labienus_, Caesar's lieutenant in the Gallic war; but who afterwards joined Pompey. He gave his new master bad advice.--_Bellum Civile_, iii. [21] See the order of battle of both parties.--_Bellum Civile_, iii. 68, 69. REID AND THE PHILOSOPHY OF COMMON SENSE.[22]