XI.

“’Tis said this Spanish soil once men did rear, Whom Rome and Carthage trembled to oppose. Sagunthus, and Numance, and Bilbil here Terrific bulwarks in their pathway rose, Ere yielding crushed by self-destroying blows! ’Tis said Viriatus the Guerrilla storm Poured from the mountains first ’gainst Roman foes, And Sylla and Pompey smote Sertorius warm, Till treachery triumphed. Gaul’s complacent slaves _ye_ form!