Note 117
We may recollect some lines of Lucan (Pharsal. iv. 95),
who describes a similar distress of Caesar's army in Spain:-
Saeva fames aderat ___
Miles eget: toto censu non.prodigus emit
Exiguam Cererem. Proh lucri pallida tabes!
Non deest prolato jejunus venditor auro.
See Guichardt (Nouveaux Memoires Militaries, tom. i. p.
379-382). His analysis of the two campaigns in Spain and
Africa is the noblest monument that has ever been raised to
the fame of Caesar.
The History Of The Decline and Fall
Of The Roman Empire—
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