"Victi victoresque in lacrumas effusi, sortem civilium armorum misera laetitia detestantes." (11) "Saecula nostra" may refer either to Lucan's own time or to the moment arrived at in the poem; or it may, as Francken suggests, have a more general meaning.
(12) "Petenda est"?
-- "is it fit that you should beg for the lives of your leaders ?" Mr.Haskins says, "shall you have to beg for them ?" But it means that to do so is the height of disgrace.
(13) The scene is the Dalmatian coast of the Adriatic.

Here was Diocletian's palace.

(Described in the 13th chapter of Gibbon.) (14) That is, night was at its shortest.
(15) On the following passage see Dean Merivale's remarks, "History of the Roman Empire", chapter xvi.
(16) That is, Sicilian.
(17) For Phlegra, the scene of the battle between the giants and the gods, see Book VII., 170, and Book IX., 774.

Ben Jonson ("Sejanus", Act v., scene 10) says of Sejanus: -- "Phlegra, the field where all the sons of earth Mustered against the gods, did ne'er acknowledge So proud and huge a monster." (18) Juno.
(19) That is, extols ancient deeds.
(20) Referring to the battle of Zama.
(21) See line 82.
(22) Curio was tribune in B.C.50.

His earlier years are stated to have been stained with vice.
(23) See Book II., 537.
(24) Preferring the reading "praeripe", with Francken.
(25) Bewick ("Quadrupeds," p.