"Disdain'd its labors, and forgotten now
All its old service at the thankless plow." Hodgson.
[655] Canino. See the close of Eurip., Hecuba. The Greeks fabled that Hecuba was metamorphosed into a bitch, from her constant railing at them. Hence κυνὸς σῆμα. Cf. Plaut., Menœchm., v. i.
[656] Crœsus. Cf. Herod., i., 32.
[657] Spatia, a metaphor from the "course." So Virgil has metæ ævi, metæ mortis.
[658] Minturnarum, a town of the Aurunci near the mouth of the Liris, now Garigliano. In the marshes in the neighborhood Marius concealed himself from the cavalry of Sylla.
[659] Animam.
"Had he exhaled amid the pomp of war,
A warrior's soul in that Teutonic car." Badham.
[660] Teutonico, i. e., after his triumph over the Cimbri and Teutones. Cf. viii., 251.
[661] Campania. Cf. Cic., Tus. Qu., i., 35, "Pompeius noster familiaris, cum graviter ægrotaret Neapoli, utrum si tum esset extinctus, à bonis rebus, an à malis discessisset? certè a miseriis, si mortem tum obiisset, in amplissimis fortunis occidisset." Achillas and L. Septimius murdered Pompey and cut off his head; which ἐφύλασσον Καίσαρι, ὡς ἐπὶ μεγίσταις ἀμοιβαῖς. Appian, B.C., ii., 86
[662] P. Corn. Lentulus Sura, was strangled in prison with Cethegus. Catiline fell in battle, near Pistoria in Etruria.