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He had a fever when he was in Spain,

and when the fit was on him, I did mark how he did shake: 'tis true, this god did shake. His coward lips did from their colour fly :

and that same eye whose bend doth awe the world did lose his lustre: I did hear him groan:

ay, and that tongue of his that bade the Romans mark him, and write his speeches in their books, 'Alas,' it cried, give me some drink, Titinius, as a sick girl. Ye gods, it doth amaze me

a man of such a feeble temper should so get the start of the majestic world, and bear the palm alone.

νεύσας μόνον, δεῖ μ' ἐς πέδον κλῖναι κάρα. καὶ δὴ πυρέσσοντ ̓ εἶδον, εἰς Ιβηρίαν ὅτ' ἐστράτευε, καὐτὸς ᾔσθόμην ὅπως νόσῳ δαμεὶς ἔφρισσεν ἰσόθεός περ ὤν. χροιᾶς ἀπώλετ ̓ ἄνθος ἐκφοβουμένῳ, ἀπ ̓ ὀμμάτων θ', ὧν οὐκέτ ̓ ἔστιν ὅστις οὐ ταρβεῖ, τὸ φαιδρὸν φέγγος οὐκ ἐλάμπετο, ᾤμωζε τ ̓ ἐβόα θ ̓, ὅς τε τοὺς αὑτοῦ λόγους κλύειν πολίταις συγγράφειν τ' ἐφίεται, κόρη τις ὡς νοσοῦσα τῇ τόθ ̓ ἡμέρᾳ ἐφθέγγετ ̓, ὦ παῖ, πρὸς θεῶν δίδου πιεῖν. ἐμοὶ μὲν οὖν, σάφ ̓ ἴσθι, τοῦ στέφους λαχεῖν τούτον, τὰ σεμνότιμα τ' ἀνθρώπων γένη οὕτω λελεῖφθαι τοῦ κακοσπλάγχνου, δοκεῖ εἴπερ τι κἄλλο θαυμάσαι κατάξιον.