‘Ille triumphata Capitolia ad alta Corintho Victor aget currum, caesis insignis Achivis. Eruet ille Argos Agamemnoniasque Mycenas, Ipsumque Aeaciden, genus armipotentis Achilli, Ultus avos Troiae, templa et temerata Minervae. 840 Quis te, magne Cato, tacitum, aut te, Cosse, relinquat? Quis Gracchi genus, aut geminos, duo fulmina belli, Scipiadas, cladem Libyae, parvoque potentem Fabricium, vel te sulco, Serrane, serentem? Quo fessum rapitis, Fabii? Tu Maximus ille es, 845 Unus qui nobis cunctando restituis rem.’ . . . . . . . ‘Aspice, ut insignis spoliis Marcellus opimis 855 Ingreditur, victorque viros supereminet omnes! Hic rem Romanam, magno turbante tumultu, Sistet, eques sternet Poenos Gallumque rebellem, Tertiaque arma patri suspendet capta Quirino.’ VERGIL, _Aen._ vi. 836-846, 855-859. [Linenotes: 836. +Ille+ = L. Mummius Achaicus, destroyed Corinth, 146 B.C. 838. +Ille+ = L. Aemilius Paullus, crushed Perseus (= +Aeaciden+ l. 839) at Pydna, 168 B.C. 841. +Cosse+ = Cornelius Cossus, won Spolia Opima a second time, 428 B.C. 842. +Gracchi genus+, e.g. (i.) Tib. Sempronius Gracchus, twice Consul 215, 212 B.C., in 2nd Punic War; (ii.) T. S. G. distinguished in Spain; (iii.) the two great Tribunes, Tiberius and Gaius. 843. +Scipiadas+ = (i.) Scipio Africanus Maior, victor at Zama, 202 B.C.; (ii.) Scipio Africanus Minor, destroyed Carthage, 146 B.C. 844. +Fabricium+, Consul 282 and 278 B.C. in war with Pyrrhus. Proof against bribes. +Serrane+ = Regulus, victor at Ecnomus, 256 B.C., a prisoner, 255 B.C. True to his word. 845. +Maximus+ = Q. Fabius M. Cunctator, Dictator after Cannae. The Shield of Rome. 846. From the Annals of Ennius (239-169 B.C.), often quoted. 855. +Marcellus+, five times Consul. Took Syracuse 212 B.C. The Sword of Rome. 857. +magno ... tumultu+ = _when a great upheaving shakes it_. --Page. +Tumultus+ (as Cic. tells us) is specially used of a rising in Italy or in Gaul, as it was close to Italy. (Elsewhere = _bellum_.) 858. +Sistet, ... sternet.+ Notice the antithesis and alliteration (assonance).] +The Vision of Anchises+ is the imperishable record of the national life, where the poet ‘sums up in lines like bars of gold the hero-roll of the Eternal City.’ --Myers. C2 FIRST PUNIC WAR, 264-241 B.C. _The Foundation of Carthage, 878 B.C._