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Pharsalia; Dramatic Episodes of the Civil Wars

BOOK VI
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3, 41, 42.
(2) C.del Faro, the N.E.point of Sicily.
(3) The shores of Kent.
(4) Aricia was situated on the Via Appia, about sixteen miles from Rome.

There was a temple of Diana close to it, among some woods on a small lake.

Aricia was Horace's first halting place on his journey to Brundisium ("Satires", i.
5).

As to Diana, see Book I., line 501.
(5) An island in the Bay of Puteoli.
(6) Typhon, the hundred-headed giant, was buried under Mount Etna.
(7) This was Scaeva's name.
(8) The vinewood staff was the badge of the centurion's office.
(9) This giant, like Typhon, was buried under Mount Etna.
(10) Juba and Petreius killed each other after the battle of Thepsus to avoid falling into Caesar's hands.

See Book IV., line 5.
(11) So Cicero: "Shall I, who have been called saviour of the city and father of my country, bring into it an army of Getae Armenians and Colchians ?" ("Ep.


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