Ad patrios montes et ad incunabula nostra,
which is quoted by Cicero in a letter to Atticus, and which Vahlen attributed to Ennius, is now generally assigned to Cicero himself.
[4] Livy xxxviii. 17.
[5] 'When the Carthaginians were coming from all sides to the conflict, and all things, beneath high heaven, confounded by the hurry and tumult of war, shook with alarm: and men were in doubt to which of the two the empire of the whole world, by land and sea, should fall.'—Lucret. iii. 834-7.
[6] Mommsen, book iii. ch. 5.
[7] The author of Caesar's Spanish War quotes Ennius in his account of the critical moment in the Battle of Munda:—'Hic, ut ait Ennius, "pes pede premitur, armis teruntur arma."'—Bell. Hisp. xxxi.
[8] Amphit. 52-3—
Quid contraxistis frontem, quia tragoediam
Dixi futuram hanc?
[9] Graecia capta ferum victorem cepit, etc.