Horatius 1, 37

Nunc est bibendum, nunc pede libero pulsanda tellus, nunc Saliaribus ornare pulvinar deorum tempus erat dapibus, sodales. antehac nefas depromere Caecubum 5 cellis avitis, dum Capitolio regina dementis ruinas funus et imperio parabat contaminato cum grege turpium morbo virorum, quidlibet inpotens 10 sperare fortunaque dulci ebria. sed minuit furorem vix una sospes navis ab ignibus mentemque lymphatam Mareotio redegit in veros timores 15 Caesar ab Italia volantem remis adurgens, accipiter velut mollis columbas aut leporem citus venator in campis nivalis Haemoniae, daret ut catenis 20 fatale monstrum: quae generosius perire quaerens nec muliebriter expavit ensem nec latentis classe cita reparavit oras, ausa et iacentem visere regiam 25 voltu sereno, fortis et asperas tractare serpentes, ut atrum corpore conbiberet venenum, deliberata morte ferocior: saevis Liburnis scilicet invidens 30 privata deduci superbo non humilis mulier triumpho.

Now is for drinking, now for earth beaten with foot that is free; now, my friends, would be time to bedeck couch of gods with Salarian banquets! Before this it was irreligious to pour out Caecuban from ancestral cellars, while Queen prepared mad destruction for Capitolium and funeral even for imperium with contaminated, infected flock of loathsome males, raging and drunk enough in everyway to set her hopes on sweet fortune. But scarcely single ship safe from blaze diminished furor and Caesar redirected her mind, frantic with Mareotic, to real fears as he surged with oars after her flying from Italia hawk like after gentle doves, or swift hunter after rabbit in fields of snowy Haemonia, to place in chains fatal monstrosity: she more nobly seeking to perish did not in womanly way blanch at sword, nor did she repair to hidden shores in swift ship, daring even to stare at collapsing kingdom with calm face, and brave to handle savage serpents, in order to drink black venom with her body, more fierce in deliberated death: refusing with distain to be led in cruel Liburnians, ordinary woman in high triumph, no lowly woman she.