Ingentem quercum decisis undique ramis Constituit tumulo, fulgentiaque induit arma, Mezenti ducis _exuvias_, tibi magne _tropæum_ Bellipotens: aptat rorantes sanguine cristas Telaque _trunca_ viri. [608] _Aplustre_, the ἄφλαστον of the Greeks was the high peak of the galley, from which rose the ensign. [609] _Arcu._ Cf. Suet., Domit., 13, "Janos arcusque cum quadrigis et insignibus triumphorum per regiones urbis tantos et tot exstruxit, ut cuidam Græcè inscriptum sit, ἀρκεῖ—." Some think there is an allusion here to the column of Trajan, erected in honor of his Dacian victories. This would bring down the date of this Satire to after A.D. 113. [610] _Amplectitur._ "That none confess fair Virtue's genuine power, Or woo her to their breast without a dower." Gifford. [611] _Sepulchris_; from Propertius, III., ii., 19, _seq._ So Ausonius, "Mors etiam saxis, nominibusque venit." "For fate hath foreordain'd its day of doom, Not to the tenant only, but the tomb." Badham. [612] _Expende._ "How are the mighty changed to dust! how small The urn that holds what once was Hannibal!" Hodgson. [613] _Altos_; others read _alios_; referring to the elephants of _Africa_ as well as _Asia_. "Elephantos fert Africa, ferunt Æthiopes et Troglodytæ: sed maximos India." Plin., viii., 11. [614] _Aceto._ Vid. Liv., xxi., 37. Polybius omits the story as fabulous. There appears, now, no reason to doubt the fact. [615] Actum. "Nil actum referens si quid superesset agendum." "Peace courts his hand, but spreads her charms in vain; 'Think nothing gain'd,' he cries, 'till naught remain; On Moscow's walls till Gothic standards fly, And all be mine beneath the Polar sky.'" Johnson. [616] _Facies._ "Oh! for some master-hand, the lines to trace!" Gifford. [617] _Luscum._ Hannibal lost one eye, while crossing the marshes, in making his way to Etruria: "quia medendi nec locus nec tempus erat altero oculo capitur;" he rode, Livy tells us, on his sole surviving elephant, xxii., 2. [618] _Bithyno._ When accused by the Romans at Carthage, Hannibal fled to Antiochus, king of Syria, and thence to the court of Prusias, king of Bithynia, for whom he carried on successfully the war against Eumenes. But when Flaminius was sent to demand his surrender, he destroyed himself with poison, which he always carried in a ring. [619] _Sanguinis._ Forty-five thousand dead were left on the field of Cannæ, with the Consul Æmilius Paulus, eighty senators, and very many others of high rank. [620] _Declamatio._ Cf. vii., 167, "Sexta quâque die miserum dirus caput Hannibal implet." So I. 150, and i., 15. "Go, climb the rugged Alps, ambitious fool! To please the boys, and be a theme at school." Dryden. [621] _Unus._ "Heu me miserum! quod ne uno quidem adhuc potitus sum!" is the exclamation put into Alexander's mouth by Val. Max., viii., 14. [622] _Gyaris._ Cf. i., 73; vi., 563.