“And Caesar, that he might subdue Ilerda, Thrust at Marseilles, and then ran into Spain.”

Lucan, who describes the siege and sea-fight in the third book of his Pharsalia , says:⁠—

“Meanwhile, impatient of the lingering war,

The chieftain to Iberia bends afar,

And gives the leaguer to Tribonius care.”

“Meanwhile, impatient of the lingering war, The chieftain to Iberia bends afar, And gives the leaguer to Tribonius care.”

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