Which may be thus translated:—
"Want crushes a brave man far worse than age,
O Cyrnus! or than fever's fiery rage;
Flee, should thy flight beneath the greedy wave,
Or from steep rocks but ope a milder grave."
[178] For the purposes of divination.
[179] This sentence is so mutilated as to be unintelligible, but is filled up by conjecture, founded on a knowledge of the facts, thus: "who was executed because he had not given up Octavian, who had been formerly proconsul of Africa, and who had taken refuge in his house when accused of some crime."
[180] The end of this chapter also is lost, as are one or two passages in the beginning of Chapter IV.
[181] Manuscript imperfect.
[182] The Dardanians were a Thracian tribe.
BOOK XXX.
ARGUMENT.