(Virgil, "Aeneid", vi., 70, &c.) (17) Appius was seized with fever as soon as he reached the spot; and there he died and was buried, thus fulfilling the oracle.
(18) That is, Nemesis.
(19) Reading "galeam", with Francken; not "glebam".
(20) Labienus left Caesar's ranks after the Rubicon was crossed, and joined his rival.

In his mouth Lucan puts the speech made at the oracle of Hammon in Book IX.

He was slain at Munda, B.C.

45.
(21) That is, civilians; no longer soldiers.

This one contemptuous expression is said to have shocked and abashed the army.