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Updated: May 5, 2025
-Cornelius Lucius Scipio Barbatus, Gnaivod patre prognatus, fortis vir sapiensque, Quoius forma virtu tei parisuma fuit, Consol censor aidilis quei fuit apud vos, Taurasia Cisauna Samnio cepit, Subigit omne Loucanum opsidesque abdoucit.
Graecia capta ferum victorem cepit. The sun still hung high over a neat little farm among the Sabine hills, although the midday heat had given way to the soft and comforting warmth of a September afternoon. Delicate shadows from dark-leaved ilexes, from tall pines and white poplars, fell waveringly across a secluded grass-plot which looked green and inviting even after the parching summer.
They darted their spears with so great force, as ofttimes to transfix two targets and two armed men at once, and pin them together. Their pieces of battery had not only the execution but the thunder of our cannon also: "Ad ictus moenium cum terribili sonitu editos, pavor et trepidatio cepit." A pretty description of something very like an arquebuse-shot.
"Cum subita incautum dementia cepit amantem; Ignoscenda quidem, scirent si ignoscere Manes." I will not burthen your lordship with more of them, for I write to a master who understands them better than myself; but I may safely conclude them to be great beauties. And I rather fear a declination of the language than hope an advancement of it in the present age.
Amid it all he chose the best doctrine, and he was undoubtedly doing good to his countrymen in thus representing to them in their native language the learning by which they might best be softened. "Græcia capta ferum victorem cepit, et artes. Intulit agresti Latio." Here, too, he explains his own conduct in a beautiful passage.
"Cornelius Lucius, | Scipio Barbatus, Gnaivod patre prognatus | fortis vir sapiensque, quoius forma virtu | tei parisuma fuit, consol censor aidilis | quei fuit apud vos, Taurasia Cisauna | Samnio cepit subigit omne Loucanam | opsidesque abdoucit." The next, the title of which is painted and the epitaph graven, refers to the son of Barbatus.
The vices of the former were those of a coward; the vices of the latter were those of a tyrant. It may be added, that the Spaniard, like the Roman, did not disdain to study the arts and the language of those whom he oppressed. A revolution took place in the literature of Spain, not unlike that revolution which, as Horace tells us, took place in the poetry of Latium: "Capta ferum victorem cepit."
For the King the Pyrenees, or so he fancied, ceased to exist; by a more magnificent conquest you overcame the Channel. If England vanquished your country's arms, it was through you that France ferum victorem cepit, and restored the dynasty of Comedy to the land whence she had been driven. In one respect, to be sure, times and manners have altered.
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