Note 12 — VI.

These verses were written after the battle of Actium, 31 B. C., but they no less indicate the sentiments of the Romans at the commencement of the war. If this indignation and hatred obtained with such violence after the victory, what must they have been in the very hour of danger? Lucan says: “This woman, the reproach of Egypt, the fatal Erinys of Latium, incestuous daughter of the Ptolemies; who made the Capitol tremble with her sistra.”