Iam cinis est: et de tam magno restat Achille
Nescio quid parvam quod non bene compleat urnam.
156 media Subura, i.e. in the heart of Rome. The Subura was one of the busiest and most populous quarters of Rome.
157 O qualis facies . . . tabella = what a sight and how fit for caricature! lit. ‘worthy of what a picture’ i.e. how ridiculous a picture it would have made.—Hardy.
158 luscum = one-eyed. Hannibal lost an eye from disease, while marching through the country flooded by the Arno, 217 B.C.
160 in exilium, i.e. first to Antiochus of Syria, and then to Prusias of Bithynia.
166 anulus. Hannibal took poison which he carried about in a ring (anulus) 183 B.C., aged 76.
167 ut . . . fias = to suit the taste of schoolboys, and become the subject of their speeches.—Duff.
For the thought, cf. Shak. Ham. V. i. 232:
Imperious Caesar, dead and turned to clay,