Sic, ubi saeva Arma ducum dirimens, miserando funere Crassus Assyrias latio maculavit sanguine Carras." "Dividitur ferro regnum; populique potentis, Quae mare, quae terras, quae totum possidet orbem, Non cepit fortuna duos." "Tu nova ne veteres obscurent acta triumphos, Et victis cedat piratica laurea Gallis, Magne, times; te jam series, ususque laborum Erigit, impatiensque loci fortuna secundi.
Nec quemquam jam ferre potest Caesarve priorem, Pompeiusve parem.

Quis justius induit arma, Scire nefas; magno se judice quisque tuetur, Victrix causa deis placuit sed victa, Catoni.[296] Nec coiere pares; alter vergentibus annis In senium, longoque togae tranquillior usu Dedidicit jam pace ducem; famaeque petitor Multa dare in vulgas; totus popularibus auris Impelli, plausuque sui gaudere theatri; Nec reparare novas vires, multumque priori Credere fortunae.

Stat magni nominis umbra." "Sed non in Caesare tantum Nomen erat, nec fama ducis; sed nescia virtus Stare loco; solusque pudor non vincere bello.
Acer et indomitus; quo spes, quoque ira vocasset, Ferre manum, et nunquam te merando parcere ferro; Successus urgere suos; instare favori Numinis."-- Lucan, lib.

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* * * * * "O men so ill-fitted to agree, O men blind with greed, of what service can it be that you should join your powers, and possess the world between you ?" "For a short time the ill-sorted compact lasted, and there was a peace which each of them abhorred.

Crassus alone stood between the others, hindering for a while the coming war--as an isthmus separates two waters and forbids sea to meet sea.