April 14th | Fastorum Liber Quartus: Aprilis
H N LUDI | XVIII Kal. Mai. | IV.625-628, under falling hail, Octavian defeats Antony at Modena.
Luce secutura tutos pete, navita, portus: 625
ventus ab occasu grandine mixtus erit.
sit licet ut fuerit, tamen hac Mutinensia Caesar
grandine militia perculit arma sua.
625 On the next day steer for safe harbours, thou mariner: the wind from the west will be mixed with hail. Yet be that as it may, on that day, a day of hail, Caesar in battle-array smote hip and thigh his foes at Modena.1
M, the editor of Ovid Daily, has also written a translation of Liber IV.
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He relieved the siege of Mutina in 43 B.C., against Antony.