THE COVER DESIGN IS BY ELIHU VEDDER
UNIFORM WITH THIS VOLUME
| Laodice and Danaë | Play in Verse |
| By Gordon Bottomley | |
| Images—Old and New | Poems |
| By Richard Aldington | |
| The English Tongue and Other Poems | |
| By Lewis Worthington Smith | |
| Five Men and Pompey | Dramatic Portraits |
| By Stephen Vincent Benét | |
| Horizons | Poems |
| By Robert Alden Sanborn | |
| The Tragedy | A Fantasy in Verse |
| By Gilbert Moyle |
FIVE MEN AND POMPEY
A Series of Dramatic Portraits
BY
STEPHEN VINCENT BENÉT
Boston
The Four Seas Company
1915
Copyright, 1915, by
THE FOUR SEAS COMPANY
THE FOUR SEAS PRESS
BOSTON AND NORWOOD
CONTENTS
| The Last Banquet | 9 |
| Lucullus Dines— | 17 |
| The Forlorn Campaign | 23 |
| Ad Atticum | 31 |
| De Bello Civili | 37 |
| After Pharsalia | 45 |
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THE LAST BANQUET
THE LAST BANQUET
[SERTORIUS SPEAKS. B. C. 72]
Twelve years! Twelve years of striving! and at last
My power is—secure? Still Pompey lives
And has an army and Metellus strives
To wipe out his defeats. The net is cast: