Iberia Won; A poem descriptive of the Peninsular War / With impressions from recent visits to the battle-grounds, and copious historical and illustrative notes

by T. M. Hughes

Qui cùm de pronâ præceps est valle volutus,

Per medium densi transit iter populi.

Catul. lxvi.

XVIII. “A soldier frank, pellucid was his mind.”

Ἀλλ’ ἐνθάδ’, ἐν Τροίᾳ τ’, ἐλευθέραν φύσιν

Παρέχων, Ἄρη, τὸ κατ’ ἐμὲ, κοσμήσω δορί.

Eurip. Iphig. in Aul. 930.

“Achil. Both here and in Troy, displaying a frank mind, as far as in me lies, I will illustrate Mars in battle.”

XX. —“Nial led ’mid War’s alarms
A file of Rifles.”