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chian and the Dacian, who hides his fear of the Marsian cohort, land the remotest Gelonians,[1] shall know: me the learned Spaniard[2] shall study, and he that drinks of the Rhone. Let there be no dirges,[3] nor unmanly lamentations, nor bewailings at my imaginary funeral; suppress your crying, and forbear the superfluous honors of a sepulcher.
- ↑ Geloni, a people of Scythia, otherwise called Getæ. They used to paint themselves, to become more terrible to their enemies; whence Virgil calls them "pictos Gelonos." Geor. ii. 115. They are thought to be now the Lithuanians. Watson.
- ↑ In the time of Augustus learning and the sciences flourished in Spain, whither they were carried from Asia, and where the Roman colonies contributed greatly to their encouragement. Dac.
- ↑ An imitation of Ennius' epitaph, p. 161, ed. Hessel:
"Nemo me lacrameis decoret, nec funera fletu
Pac sit, quur? volito, vivo, per ora virûm."
