Repentes per humum quam res componere gestas,
Terrarumque situs et flumina dicere, et arces
Montibus impositas, et barbara regna, tuisque
Auspiciis totum confecta duella per orbem[444], etc.
Horace expresses his contempt for this style of poem in other passages of his Satires, as (ii. 5. 41),
seu pingui tentus omaso
Furius hibernas cana nive conspuet Alpes[445];
and also (Sat. i. 10. 36–37),
Turgidus Alpinus jugulat dum Memnona, dumque
Defingit Rheni luteum caput[446].