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

Whom Rome and Carthage trembled to oppose.

Sagunthus, and Numance, and Bilbil here

Terrific bulwarks in their pathway rose,

Ere yielding crushed by self-destroying blows!

’Tis said Viriatus the Guerrilla storm

Poured from the mountains first ’gainst Roman foes,

And Sylla and Pompey smote Sertorius warm,

Till treachery triumphed. Gaul’s complacent slaves ye form!

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