Note 295 — Chapter VIII · MOSTAR AND THE VALE OF NARENTA.
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The lines in which Claudian (In Ruf. lib. ii. v. 45, &c.) describes the sufferings of the inhabitants of these lands (plaga Pannoniæ miserandaque mœnia Thracum, arvaque Mysorum) subject to the annual incursions of the barbarians, are hardly less applicable now than they were then! Claudian’s lines may, perhaps, be translated:—
The devastating course each year renews, Each year his ravaged fields the peasant views, Nor weeps he, now, the havoc of the foe— Long use has stolen e’en the sense of woe!