Fastorum, solitumque legi super alta deorum
Culmina et exstructos spoliis hostilibus arcus
Haud procul est ima Pompei nomen harena,
Depressum tumulo, quod non legat advena rectus,
Quod nisi monstratum Romanus transeat hospes.
Lucan, Pharsalia, viii. 789-793, 806-822.
Subject. Cordus, whom Lucan calls infaustus Magni comes (or according to Plutarch Philippus the faithful freedman of Pompeius), finds the cast-up body of Pompeius and gives it honourable burial.
793 HIC SITUS EST = ἔνθαδε κεῖται, the regular inscription on a tombstone.
808 truces Lepidi motus. Cf. page 178, last note on page.
809 revocato consule, i.e. Metellus. Cf. [page 180, A.], l. 12.