Fortes creantur fortibus et bonis; Est in iuvencis, est in equis patrum Virtus, neque imbellem feroces Progenerant aquilae columbam; 32 Doctrina sed vim promovet insitam, Rectique cultus pectora roborant; Utcumque defecere mores, Indecorant bene nata culpae. 36 Quid debeas, o Roma, Neronibus, Testis Metaurum flumen et Hasdrubal Devictus et pulcher fugatis Ille dies Latio tenebris, 40 Qui primus alma risit adorea, Dirus per urbes Afer ut Italas Ceu flamma per taedas vel Eurus Per Siculas equitavit undas. 44 Post hoc secundis usque laboribus Romana pubes crevit, et impio Vastata Poenorum tumultu Fana deos habuere rectos. 48 HORACE, _Odes_, IV. iv. 29-48. [Linenotes: 29-36. The thought is: ‘It is true that scions of a good stock must be good in men as well as in animals, but yet _education_ (+doctrina+ = _training_ l. 33) _brings out the innate force_.’ 29. +fortibus et bonis.+ For the combined epithets cf. καλὸς κἀγαθός. 36. +Indecorant ... culpae+ = _faults disfigure_ (+indecorant = dedecorant+) _scions of an honourable stock_ (+bene nata+). 37. +Neronibus+, e.g. M. Claudius Nero (the hero of Metaurus), and the brothers Drusus and Tiberius (afterwards Emperor), stepsons of Augustus. 41. +alma adorea+ = _with kindly (refreshing) success_. 43. +ceu flamma per taedas+ = _like fire through a pine-forest_. --W. 44. +equitavit+ = _galloped_, _careered_, used of Hannibal, and, by zeugma, with +flamma+ and +Eurus+. 46-47. +impio tumultu+ = _by the sacrilegious invasion_ (or _riot_, _outrage_), possibly with reference to Livy’s story (xxvi. 11) of the plundering of the Temple of Feronia. 48. +rectos+ = _upright_, i.e. of the images supposed to have been thrown down by Hannibal, and not set on their pedestals again.] +Results of the Battle.+ ‘The war in Italy was to all appearances finished, and it was on the Metaurus that the Romans conquered Spain.’ --Ihne. When Hannibal recognised the head of his brother Hasdrubal, he foresaw the doom of Carthage:-- ‘Lost, lost is all: A nation’s hope, a nation’s name, They died with dying Hasdrubal.’ --C. (Hor. _Od._ IV. iv. 70-73). C37 SECOND PUNIC WAR, 218-202 B.C. _Hannibal leaves Italy, 203 B.C._