"Heraclite fleas, misero sic convenit aevo, Nil nisi turpe vides, nil nisi triste vides.

Qualis extra sum vides, qualis intra novit Deus. 5707.

On the contrary, public thanksgivings were offered up in the churches, the people went about the streets with their old gayety and lightheartedness, and the authorities began to take measures to pro vide for the urgent necessities of the new republic.

That, perhaps, was fortunate, for it enabled Lucan safely to introduce one of his great and memorable lines: Jupiter est quodcunque vides, quodcunque moveris; which would certainly explode any supernatural machinery that could be invented.