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283. [22] Pompey's second wife was Julia, the daughter of Julius Caesar, she died the year before the death of Crassus, in Parthia.
Virgil speaks of Caesar and Pompey as relations, using the same expression (socer) as Cicero: Aggeribus socer Alpinis atque arce Monoeci Descendens, gener adversis instructus Eois .-- AEn.
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830. [23] This idea is beautifully expanded by Byron: Yet if, as holiest men have deem'd, there be A land of souls beyond that sable shore To shame the doctrine of the Sadducee And sophist, madly vain or dubious lore, How sweet it were in concert to adore With those who made our mortal labors light, To hear each voice we fear'd to hear no more. Behold each mighty shade reveal'd to sight, The Bactrian, Samian sage, and all who taught the right! _Childe Harold_, ii. [24] The epitaph in the original is: [Greek: O xein' angeilon Lakedaimoniois hoti tede keimetha, tois keinon peithomenoi nomimois.] [25] This was expressed in the Greek verses, [Greek: Arches men me phynai epichthonioisin ariston, phynta d' hopos okista pylas Aidyo peresai] which by some authors are attributed to Homer. [26] This is the first fragment of the Cresphontes .-- Ed.
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