With hoary top, and, under HÊmus' mount, Philippi plains. Phoebus, what rage is this? 680 Why grapples Rome, and makes war, having no foes? Whither turn I now? thou lead'st me toward th' east, Where Nile augmenteth the Pelusian sea: This headless trunk that lies on Nilus' sand I know. Now th[o]roughout the air I fly To doubtful Syrtes and dry Afric, where A Fury leads the Emathian bands. From thence To the pine-bearing[651] hills; thence[652] to the mounts Pyrene; and so back to Rome again. See, impious war defiles the senate-house! 690 New factions rise. Now through the world again I go. O Phoebus, show me Neptune's shore, And other regions! I have seen Philippi." This said, being tir'd with fury, she sunk down. FOOTNOTES: [579] Old ed. "launcht."--The forms "lanch" and "lance" are used indifferently. [580] Alike. [581] "Et ardenti _servilia_ bella sub ∆tna." [582] "Nec polus adversi _calidus_ qua vergitur Austri." [583] "_Obliquo_ sidere." [584] Axis. [585] Tumults. [586] "Summisque negatum, Stare diu." [587] Far-fetched. [588] "Exiguum dominos commisit asylum." [589] "So old ed. in some copies which had been corrected at press; other copies 'Aezean.'"--_Dyce_. [590] CarrÊ's. [591] A somewhat weak translation of Lucan's most famous line:--"Victrix causa diis placuit, sed victa Catoni." [592] As the line stands we must take "nod" and "fall" transitively ("though every blast make it nod and seem to make it fall"). The original has "At quamvis primo nutet casura sub Euro." [593] "Fecunda virorum / Paupertas." [594] "Ingens visa duci patriae _trepidantis_ imago." [595] "Inde _moras_ solvit belli." [596] "Sonipes." [597] "Nuda jam crate fluentes / Invadunt clypeos." [598] Silent. [599] Prove. [600] "Jactatis ... _Gracchis_." [601] Marlowe omits to translate the words that follow in the original:-- "Utque ducem varias volventem pectore curas Conspexit." [602] A line (omitted by Marlowe) follows in the original:--"Par labor atque metus pretio majore petuntur." [603] An obscure rendering of "Gentesque subactas Vix impune feres." [604] Old ed. "Eleius." It is hardly possible to suppose (as Dyce suggests) that Marlowe took the adjective "Eleus" for a substantive. [605] A mistranslation of "carcere clauso." ("Carcer" is the barrier or starting-place in the circus.) [606] "Immineat foribus." "Souse" is a north-country word meaning to bang or dash. It is also applied to the swooping-down of a hawk. [607] Old ed. "leaders." [608] So Dyce for the old ed's. "Brabbling." The original has "Marcellusque _loquax_." ("Brabbling" means "wrangling.") [609] A mistake (or perhaps merely a misprint) for "Cilician." [610] Old ed. has "Jaded, king of Pontus!"