The ninth of Horace's Epodes is about this event, as is the 37th poem in his first book of Odes.
One poem about this event describes an apparition of Apollo, who looked as "when, dread Python's writhing coils o'ercome, / he slew him when the peaceful lyre was dumb." Another poem about this event describes how "the sun looks down on a shameful mosquito-net" and attacks a man who "deigns to serve the withered eunuchs." A poem set in the aftermath in this event compares a man hunting a "deadly monster" to a "sparrow-hawk" who follows a dove or a "swift hunter" pursuing a hare; that poem, concerning this event, claims, "now is the time to beat the earth with unfettered feet" and "now is the time for (*) drinking." The ninth of Horace's Epodes is about this event, as is the 37th poem in his first book of Odes. This event is depicted as the culmination of a series of other scenes, including the Gauls taking the citadel, Catiline hanging from a rock, and Cato dealing out laws, in the centerpiece of Aeneas' shield in the Aeneid. For 10 points, name this event that Enobarbus describes in Act III of Antony and Cleopatra, a battle where Antony was defeated by Octavian's navy.
One poem about this event describes an apparition of Apollo, who looked as "when, dread Python's writhing coils o'ercome, / he slew him when the peaceful lyre was dumb."
The Battle of Actium