Thus at the hour of passing, before the corpse Was silent though, for a profound voiceless grief seizedĪll people. The magistrates concealed themselves in normal dress,Īnd no purple accompanied the lictors’ rods. Portents of the vast calamity set to overtake the world,Īll business ceased and gloom descended on Rome. Whatever they may be, be sudden let men’s mindsīe blind to future doom let them fear yet live in hope.įor, when men learned from the heavens’ truth-bearing The prescribed ages or whether nothing is pre-ordained,įate driving the turns and returns of alternating change,Īnd Chance being ruler of mankind, let your purposes, Inflexible limits apportioning the universe to endure

Of pure matter, establishing the eternal chain of causes,īinding himself as well by universal laws, and within Whether some creator first formed the shapeless region Of learning disaster’s approach through dire portents? Why, lord of Olympus,ĭid you see fit to load this ill on suffering mortals, Now the gods’ anger was revealed, the world showedĮvery token of war, and prescient Nature overturnedĬonsensus and the rule of law, with monster-bearing Book II:650-703 Caesar lays siege to Brindisi.Book II:596-649 Pompey flees to Brindisi.Book II:526-595 Pompey’s speech to the army.Book II:462-525 Defeat of Pompey’s generals.Book II:392-438 Pompey bases himself at Capua.Book II:286-325 Marcus Porcius Cato the Younger.Book II:234-285 Marcus Junius Brutus the Younger.Book II:139-233 History recalled - Sulla.Book II:67-138 History recalled - Marius.This work may be freely reproduced, stored and transmitted, electronically or otherwise, for any non-commercial purpose. Kline © Copyright 2014 All Rights Reserved.

Guilty Men by Cato the Younger