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Silius (T. Catius Silius Italicus), 25 CE–101, used to be consul in sixty eight and governor of the province of Asia in sixty nine; he sought no additional place of work yet lived thereafter on his estates as a literary guy and collector. He respected the paintings of Cicero, whose Tusculan villa he owned, and that of Virgil, whose tomb at Naples he likewise owned and close to which he lived. His epic Punica, in 17 books, at the moment conflict with Carthage (218–202 BCE), is predicated for evidence principally on Livy's account. Conceived as a distinction among nice countries (and their assisting gods), championed through the 2 nice heroes Scipio and Hannibal, his poem is written in natural Latin and tender verse stuffed all through with echoes of Virgil in particular (and different poets); it exploits with effortless grace, yet little genius, the entire units and methods of conventional Latin epic. The Loeb Classical Library version of Silius Italicus is in volumes.
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395 hunc miseratus adest infesto vulnere Ladmus. " narrabis Hamilcaris umbris cui saevum arridens banc," inquit, ** dextram, quae iam post funera vulgi " et ferit alte Hannibalem vobis dederit comitem : — insurgens gladio cristatae cassidis aera 401 perque ipsum tegimen crepitantia dissipat ossa. turn frontem Chremes intonsam umbrante capillo saeptus et horrentes effingens crine galeros turn Masulis crudaque virens ad bella senecta Kartalo, non pavidus fetas mulcere leaenas, flumineaque urna caelatus Bagrada parmam et vastae Nasamon Syrtis populator Hiempsal, ; 405 audax in fluctu laceras cap tare carinas 410 una omnes dextraque cadunt iraque perempti nee non serpentem diro exarmare veneno doctus Athyr tactuque graves sopire chelydros ac dubiam admoto subolem explorare ceraste.
The falarica was a missile of the largest dimensions, by machinery from towers called falae. It had an iron head and wooden shaft and the iron just under the head was enveloped in tow steeped in pitch, which was ignited before the weapon was discharged. « This name was given to a formation often adopted by soldiers when besieging a town. The shields were carried above the men's heads and overlapped so as to form a pro<• ^ hurled ; tection like the shell of a tortoise. SO « PUNICA, I. 343-367 Is this the glorious news exploit of your general with which we intend to fill Italy ?
426 At parte ex alia, qua se insperata iuventus extulerat portis, ceu spicula nulla manusque vim ferre exitiumve queant, permixtus utrisque Hannibal agminibus passim furit et quatit ensem, 430 cantato nuper senior quem fecerat igni litore ab Hesperidum Temisus, qui carmine pollens fidebat magica ferrum crudescere lingua, quantus Bistoniis late Gradivus in oris belligero rapitur curru telumque coruscans, Titanum quo pulsa cohors, flagrantia bella 435 cornipedum afflatu domat et stridoribus axis, iamque Hostum Rutulumque Pholum ingentemque Metiscum, iam Lygdum Duriumque simul flavumque Galaesum et geminos, Chromin atque Gyan, demiserat umbris.