F is reinforced by minor alliteration of T: "Receive these gifts soaked with brotherly tears." Ovid employs alliteration much less obviously than Lucretius and Virgil (some examples are given below). He sometimes seems to play with words, as when Apollo tells his son Phaethon: "Do not doubt! It will be given." Propertius also occasionally uses alliteration, as in the opening couplet of his love elegies, where in addition to the main alliteration of C on the key words, there is secondary alliteration of p, m, t, n, and l: "Cynthia was the first woman to capture wretched me with her little eyes, I who had never experienced the contagion of any desires before." In Lucan alliteration is found, although not as commonly as in Virgil. His epic poem on the Civil War begins as follows, with an alliteration on C, P, SC, V: "We sing of wars worse than civil across the Emathian plains, and of licence given to crime, and a powerful people who turned against their own innards with victorious right hand." Alliteration is rarely used in Juvenal and Martial, although there are occasional phrases such as the following from Juvenal: "to spare paper which is going to perish anyway" or the following from Martial, in which L, C, and S are interwoven: "the playful races of hares and the games of lions" In prose Although alliteration is found most often in poetry, Pontano notes that prose writers also sometimes used it, and quotes from a sentence from Cicero's treatise Brutus: "Nothing penetrates their minds more and moulds, forms, and persuades them". In his speeches, Cicero uses alliteration sparingly, but effectively, as in famous suggestion to Catiline: "The gates are open; depart!" Again using assonance as well as alliteration, in an emotional moment of indignation in the he says: "when those hostile and calamitous torches ... when slaughter, when the blood of citizens, when the ashes of our fatherland had begun..." Near the ending of the 2nd Philippic oration Cicero uses both alliteration and assonance to add force to an unexpected metaphor. The major alliteration, on stressed initial syllables, is D P P D P; but there is also internal or minor alliteration of L D D L as well as assonance of PAR PAR: "so that at long last the pain of the Roman people may give birth to what it has long been in labour with!"