Horace, Odes III. v. 5-12.
Nearly 10,000 Roman prisoners were settled by the victors in the oasis of Merv, as bondsmen compelled after the Parthian fashion to render military service (in armis, l. 8).
8 Consenuit: Carrhae (53 B.C.) was fought 26 years before this Ode was written (27 B.C.).
10-11 Anciliorum, aeternae Vestae, pledges of the immortality of Rome.
10 togae, i.e. the Roman people, the gens togata.
12 Iove, Jove’s temple on the Capitol.
Crassus ad Euphraten aquilas natumque suosque
Perdidit, et leto est ultimus ipse datus.
“Parthe, quid exsultas?” dixit dea, “signa remittes,