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

Carm. iv. 14.

Again, commemorating the triumph of Agrippa under Augustus, in the year U. C. 733:

Cantaber Agrippæ, Claudî virtute Neronis

Armenius cecidit.

Epist. i. 12.

Agrippa was not the only one of Augustus’s generals, who was despatched to the conquest of Cantabria, and with dubious success. Lucius Æmilius had before failed in the attempt.

It is curious enough that the Britons, the Gauls, and the Spaniards are alluded to by name, and in the exact order of their greatness, in three successive lines of an ode of Horace:

Te belluosus qui remotis

Obstrepit Oceanus Britannis,

Te non paventis funera Galliæ,