When slumber found Her eyelids, and forgetfulness her soul, Seeking with outstretched arms the form beloved, She grasps but air.

Though tossed by restless love, She leaves a place beside her as for him Returning.

Yet she feared Pompeius lost To her for ever.

But the gods ordained Worse than her fears, and in the hour of woe Gave her to look upon his face again.
ENDNOTES: (1) The Pleiades, said to be daughters of Atlas.
(2) These were the Consuls for the expiring year, B.C.49 -- Caius Marcellus and L.Lentulus Crus.
(3) That is to say, Caesar's Senate at Rome could boast of those Senators only whom it had, before Pompeius' flight, declared public enemies.

But they were to be regarded as exiles, having lost their rights, rather than the Senators in Epirus, who were in full possession of theirs.
(4) Dean Merivale says that probably Caesar's Senate was not less numerous than his rival's.