His meruit tumulum medio sibi tollere Campo?
Haec rursus patienda manent: hoc ordine belli
Ibitur: hic stabit civilibus exitus armis.’
....Sic maesta senectus
Praeteritique memor flebat metuensque futuri.
Lucan, Pharsalia, ii. 139-148, 221-224.
139 Sulla . . . ultor = Sulla too in his vengeance came to crown these fearful disasters.—Haskins.
141-143 dumque . . . manus. Sulla is compared to a surgeon who in too great haste to remove the mortified flesh cuts away the sound flesh also.
146 non uni . . . = all crimes were not committed for one man’s sake, i.e. to please Sulla.
223-224 hoc ordine belli ibitur = in this course of war events will move.—H. i.e. History will repeat itself.