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More wonderful still was it to see the manner of the young ladies towards him for I shall always call them that they petted him and fondled him, and one put a mock crown of roses on his head. Then, with that pretty song of theirs, "Rosamunda munda munda," they all ran off together towards the northern shore and left us in the darkness, as surprised a party of men as you'll readily meet with.
The triumph after the battle of Munda subsequently to be mentioned probably had reference only to the Lusitanians who served in great numbers in the conquered army. V. VI. Second Coalition of Pompeius, Crassus, and Caesar
And it must have often struck him as a remarkable circumstance, which by good luck had turned out entirely to the advantage of his own family, but which might as readily have had an opposite result, that the three decisive battles of Pharsalia, of Thapsus, and of Munda, in which the empire of the world was three times over staked as the prize, had severally brought upon the defeated leaders a ruin which was total, absolute, and final.
If we are victorious, I shall get horses enough from the foe. If we are beaten, I shall need a horse no more." The battle that followed was the most severely contested action of that warlike period, which, extending through two generations, saw the victories of Marius over the Northern barbarians at its commencement, and Pharsalia and Munda and Philippi at its close.
I took up the words from the holy priesthood, and I said, as they say: Munda cor meum, ac labia mea, Omnipotens Deus, qui labia Isaiae prophetae, calculo mundasti ignito! For so Isaiah had been exalted till he heard the language of heaven, the music of the seraphim.
Munda was at once blockaded, the enclosing wall savage evidence of the temper of the conquerors being built of dead bodies pinned together with lances, and on the top of it a fringe of heads on swords' points with the faces turned toward the town. A sally was attempted at midnight, and failed.
The Campo Santo has an unsatisfied claim upon my interest because it was the place where the perfervid Christian zealots used to find the martyrdom they sought at the hands of the unwilling Arabs; and where, far earlier, Julius Caesar planted a plane tree after his victory over the forces of Pompeii at Munda.
Some would have this to forbode, that the order, of which that was the badge of distinction, would some time or other be subject to him. Julius Caesar, in cutting down a wood to make room for his camp near Munda , happened to light upon a palm-tree, and ordered it to be preserved as an omen of victory.
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