To bring the whole world to its mood serene, Did Caesar by the will of Rome assume it. What it achieved from Var unto the Rhine, Isere beheld and Saone, beheld the Seine, And every valley whence the Rhone is filled; What it achieved when it had left Ravenna, And leaped the Rubicon, was such a flight That neither tongue nor pen could follow it. Round towards Spain it wheeled its legions; then Towards Durazzo, and Pharsalia smote 1299 That to the calid Nile was felt the pain. 1300 Antandros and the Simois, whence it started, 1301 It saw again, and there where Hector lies, And ill for Ptolemy then roused itself. 1302 From thence it came like lightning upon Juba; 1303 Then wheeled itself again into your West, 1304 Where the Pompeian clarion it heard. From what it wrought with the next standard-bearer