8/8 And the third, speaking of the civil wars betwixt Caesar and Pompey, "Victrix causa diis placuit, set victa Catoni." ["The victorious cause blessed the gods, the defeated one Cato. 128.] And the fourth, upon the praises of Caesar: "Et cuncta terrarum subacta, Praeter atrocem animum Catonis." ["And conquered all but the indomitable mind of Cato." -- Horace, Od., ii. 1, 23.] And the master of the choir, after having set forth all the great names of the greatest Romans, ends thus: "His dantem jura Catonem." ["Cato giving laws to all the rest."-- AEneid, viii. |