Bella per Emathios plus quam civilia campos
iusque datum sceleri canimus, populumque potentem
in sua victrici conversum viscera dextra
cognatasque acies, et rupto foedere regni
certatum totis concussi viribus orbis
in commune nefas, infestisque obvia signis
signa, pares aquilas et pila minantia pilis.

Wars worse than civil we sing, fought on Emathian plains,
And justice given over to crime; how Rome's mighty people
Directed their victorious hand against their own vitals.
Frontlines of armies akin and broken the tyrant's pact.
All the shaken world's forces locked in one struggle;
In common guilt, hostile encounter of standard with
standard, of the same eagles, spear threatening spear.

victrix causa deis placuit sed victa Catoni.
The winner pleased the gods, but Cato preferred the lost.
Liber I, line 157

hoc hostibus unum, quod vincas, ignosce tuis.
Forgive your foes one thing: that you are the winner.
Liber IV, line 344 - 362

Vel dominus rerum vel tanti funeris heres
Will I be ruler of the world or heir to death and doom?
Liber VI, second part ( )

édition critique, avec des notes en anglais par C. E. Haskins et une introduction par W. E. Heitland.