[Linenotes: 9. +Pompeiani theatri.+ Pompeius built the first stone theatre at Rome, near the Campus Martius, capable of holding 40,000 people. 10. +Innumeram ... plebis+ = _the image of the countless Roman people_. +innumeram+ which belongs to +plebis+ is transferred to +effigiem+.--Haskins. 14. +Olim ... triumphi+, i.e. over Africa 79 B.C. when only 24, and +adhuc Romanus eques+ (l. 19). It was not until 71 B.C. that he triumphed over Spain, after the murder of Sertorius. Lucan confuses the two triumphs. 16. +impulit+ = _set in motion_ (lit. _drive forward_). 17-18. +pura venerabilis ... toga+ = _no less worshipful in pure white gown than_ (he would have been) _in that which usually adorns the car of triumph_, i.e. the _toga picta_. --H. 20. +anxia+ (sc. _quies_) = _his repose full of anxiety for the future_. --H. 21-22. +solitas ... vaticinata+ = _foretelling the opposite of his visions_ i.e. by the +plausus+ of which he dreamed, the +planctus+ which was in store for him was foreshadowed. --H. 25. +nullas+ = _at all_. Cf. Cic. _Ep._: _nullus venit_ = _he never came_. 26. +Crastina ... diurna+ = _to-morrow’s night of horror haunted by the sad image of the day’s events_. --H. 29. +sic+, i.e. in dreams.]
+The Dream of Pompeius.+ Macaulay says ‘I hardly know an instance of so great an effect produced by means so simple.’
_Pompeius ill-advised at Pharsalus, 48 B.C._
Inter duas acies tantum erat relictum spatii, ut satis esset ad concursum utriusque exercitus. Sed Pompeius suis praedixerat, ut Caesaris impetum exciperent neve se loco moverent aciemque eius distrahi paterentur; idque admonitu C. Triarii { 5} fecisse dicebatur, ut primus excursus visque militum infringeretur aciesque distenderetur atque in suis ordinibus dispositi dispersos adorirentur; leviusque casura pila sperabat in loco retentis militibus, quam si ipsi immissis telis occucurrissent, simul fore, ut { 10} duplicato cursu Caesaris milites exanimarentur et lassitudine conficerentur. Quod nobis quidem nulla ratione factum a Pompeio videtur, propterea quod est quaedam animi incitatio atque alacritas naturaliter innata omnibus, quae studio pugnae incenditur. { 15} Hanc non reprimere, sed augere imperatores debent; neque frustra antiquitus institutum est, ut signa undique concinerent clamoremque universi tollerent: quibus rebus et hostes terreri et suos incitari existimaverunt. { 20}