If the morsel of land gives way, the Ionian waves and the AEgean dash themselves in foam against each other.

So was it with the arms of the two chiefs when Crassus fell, and drenched the Assyrian Carrae with Roman blood." "Then the possession of the Empire was put to the arbitration of the sword.

The fortunes of a people which possessed sea and earth and the whole world, were not sufficient for two men." "You, Magnus, you, Pompeius, fear lest newer deeds than yours should make dull your old triumphs, and the scattering of the pirates should be as nothing to the conquering of Gaul.

The practice of many wars has so exalted you, O Caesar, that you cannot put up with a second place.
Caesar will endure no superior; but Pompey will have no equal.

Whose cause was the better the poet dares not inquire! Each will have his own advocate in history.