Audieratque pavens: “Fas haec contingere non est
Colla tibi: debet multas his legibus aevi
Ante suam mortes: vanum depone furoremi.”
Si libet ulcisci deletae funera gentis,
Hunc, Cimbri, servate senem.’
Lucan, Pharsalia, ii. 67-85.
* Postgate, actu.
67 exempla timori = precedents to hear out his fears.—Haskins.
70 Exsul. 88-7 B.C. For details see Plut. Marius, caps. 38-40.
72 Fortuna, i.e. the evil destiny of Rome, protecting him because the gods were angry with Rome. Cf. 82-83 debet . . . mortes.