.........Quis enim Visos in plaustra feroces

Reppulit, aut sæva Promoti cæde tumentes

Bastarnas una potuit delere ruina?

Claud. ibid. v. 94 et seq.—S.-M.

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Exstinctique forent penitus, ni more maligno,

Falleret Augustas occultus proditor aures,

Obstrueretque moras, strictumque reconderet ensem

Solveret obsessos, præberet fædera captis.

Claud. l. 1, ibid. v. 112 et seq.—S.-M.