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[219] The compliment, at the opening of the Pharsalia, has been thought sarcastic. It certainly sounds so in modern ears: if Nero could only attain empire by civil war, as the gods by that of the giants, then says the poet,
----Scelera ipsa nefasque
Hac mercede placent.——
[220] Note I.
[221] Note II.
[222] Note III.
[223] Note IV.
[224] Note V.
[225] Note VI.
[226] Note VII.