Atque aliquis magno quaerens exempla timori, ‘Non alios,’ inquit, ‘motus tum fata parabant, Cum post Teutonicos victor Libycosque triumphos Exsul limosa Marius caput abdidit ulva. 70 Stagna avidi texere soli laxaeque paludes Depositum, Fortuna, tuum: mox vincula ferri Exedere senem longusque in carcere paedor. Consul et eversa felix moriturus in urbe Poenas ante dabat scelerum. Mors ipsa refugit 75 Saepe virum, frustraque hosti concessa potestas. Sanguinis invisi: primo qui caedis in ictu[35] Deriguit ferrumque manu torpente remisit; Viderat immensum tenebroso in carcere lumen Terribilesque deos scelerum Mariumque futurum 80 Audieratque pavens: “Fas haec contingere non est Colla tibi: debet multas his legibus aevi Ante suam mortes: vanum depone furorem.” Si libet ulcisci deletae funera gentis, Hunc, Cimbri, servate senem.’ 85 LUCAN, _Pharsalia_, ii. 67-85. [Footnote 35: Postgate, _actu_.] [Linenotes: 67. +exempla timori+ = _precedents to hear out his fears_. --Haskins. 70. +Exsul.+ 88-7 B.C. For details see Plut. _Marius_, caps. 38-40. 72. +Fortuna+, i.e. the _evil_ destiny of Rome, protecting him because the gods were angry with Rome. Cf. 16-17 _debet ... mortes_. 73. +in carcere+, i.e. at Minturnae, S.E. of Latium. There were extensive marshes in the neighbourhood. +paedor+ = _filth_. 82. +legibus aevi+ = _the laws that govern time_ = _fatis_. --H.] B. _Marius outlived his fame._ Quid illo cive tulisset Natura in terris, quid Roma beatius umquam, Si circumducto captivorum agmine et omni 280 Bellorum pompa animam exhalasset opimam, Cum de Teutonico vellet descendere curru? JUVENAL, _Sat._ x. 278-282. _Marius outlived his powers and his reputation._ ‘Had he now died, he would have gone down to posterity as one of the greatest men of his people, as a second Romulus or Camillus, unstained with any blood save that of foreign foes.’ --Ihne. +Parallel Passages.+ Ov. _P. Ep._ iv. 3. 45-48; Juv. x. 276-278. +References.+ Plut. _Marius_, caps. 38-end. Ihne, vol. iv. pp. 336-7, vol. v. pp. 111-12. B7 _Cicero on Civil Strife._