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Lucan, Pharsalia, 2.114-2.116


nanEach from the other's fate some solace drew, And prostrate, pardoned heaven. On Libyan soil Fresh fury gathering, next, when Fortune smiled The prisons he threw wide and freed the slaves. Forth rushed the murderous bands, their melted chains Forged into weapons for his ruffian needs. No charge he gave to mere recruits in guilt Who brought not to the camp some proof of crime. How dread that day when conquering Marius seized The city's ramparts! with what fated speed


nanEach from the other's fate some solace drew, And prostrate, pardoned heaven. On Libyan soil Fresh fury gathering, next, when Fortune smiled The prisons he threw wide and freed the slaves. Forth rushed the murderous bands, their melted chains Forged into weapons for his ruffian needs. No charge he gave to mere recruits in guilt Who brought not to the camp some proof of crime. How dread that day when conquering Marius seized The city's ramparts! with what fated speed


nanEach from the other's fate some solace drew, And prostrate, pardoned heaven. On Libyan soil Fresh fury gathering, next, when Fortune smiled The prisons he threw wide and freed the slaves. Forth rushed the murderous bands, their melted chains Forged into weapons for his ruffian needs. No charge he gave to mere recruits in guilt Who brought not to the camp some proof of crime. How dread that day when conquering Marius seized The city's ramparts! with what fated speed


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1. Homer, Iliad, 21.218-21.220, 21.235-21.238, 21.377-21.384, 24.719-24.722 (8th cent. BCE - 7th cent. BCE)

21.218. /for ever do the very gods give thee aid. If so be the son of Cronos hath granted thee to slay all the men of Troy, forth out of my stream at least do thou drive them, and work thy direful work on the plain. Lo, full are my lovely streams with dead men, nor can I anywise avail to pour my waters forth into the bright sea 21.219. /for ever do the very gods give thee aid. If so be the son of Cronos hath granted thee to slay all the men of Troy, forth out of my stream at least do thou drive them, and work thy direful work on the plain. Lo, full are my lovely streams with dead men, nor can I anywise avail to pour my waters forth into the bright sea 21.220. /being choked with dead, while thou ever slayest ruthlessly. Nay, come, let be; amazement holds me, thou leader of hosts. Then swift-footed Achilles answered him, saying:Thus shall it be, Scamander, nurtured of Zeus, even as thou biddest. Howbeit the proud Trojan will I not cease to slay 21.235. /that lay thick within his bed, slain by Achilles; these lie cast forth to the land, bellowing the while like a bull, and the living he saved under his fair streams, hiding them in eddies deep and wide. 21.236. /that lay thick within his bed, slain by Achilles; these lie cast forth to the land, bellowing the while like a bull, and the living he saved under his fair streams, hiding them in eddies deep and wide. 21.237. /that lay thick within his bed, slain by Achilles; these lie cast forth to the land, bellowing the while like a bull, and the living he saved under his fair streams, hiding them in eddies deep and wide. 21.238. /that lay thick within his bed, slain by Achilles; these lie cast forth to the land, bellowing the while like a bull, and the living he saved under his fair streams, hiding them in eddies deep and wide. 21.377. /nay, not when all Troy shall burn with the burning of consuming fire, and the warlike sons of the Achaeans shall be the burners thereof. But when the goddess, white-armed Hera, heard this plea, forthwith she spake unto Hephaestus, her dear son:Hephaestus, withhold thee, my glorious son; it is nowise seemly 21.378. /nay, not when all Troy shall burn with the burning of consuming fire, and the warlike sons of the Achaeans shall be the burners thereof. But when the goddess, white-armed Hera, heard this plea, forthwith she spake unto Hephaestus, her dear son:Hephaestus, withhold thee, my glorious son; it is nowise seemly 21.379. /nay, not when all Troy shall burn with the burning of consuming fire, and the warlike sons of the Achaeans shall be the burners thereof. But when the goddess, white-armed Hera, heard this plea, forthwith she spake unto Hephaestus, her dear son:Hephaestus, withhold thee, my glorious son; it is nowise seemly 21.380. /thus to smite an immortal god for mortals' sake. So spake she, and Hephaestus quenched his wondrous-blazing fire, and once more in the fair river-bed the flood rushed down.But when the fury of Xanthus was quelled, the twain thereafter ceased, for Hera stayed them, albeit she was wroth; 21.381. /thus to smite an immortal god for mortals' sake. So spake she, and Hephaestus quenched his wondrous-blazing fire, and once more in the fair river-bed the flood rushed down.But when the fury of Xanthus was quelled, the twain thereafter ceased, for Hera stayed them, albeit she was wroth; 21.382. /thus to smite an immortal god for mortals' sake. So spake she, and Hephaestus quenched his wondrous-blazing fire, and once more in the fair river-bed the flood rushed down.But when the fury of Xanthus was quelled, the twain thereafter ceased, for Hera stayed them, albeit she was wroth; 24.719. /had not the old man spoken amid the folk from out the car:Make me way for the mules to pass through; thereafter shall ye take your fill of wailing, when I have brought him to the house. So spake he, and they stood apart and made way for the waggon. But the others, when they had brought him to the glorious house 24.720. /laid him on a corded bedstead, and by his side set singers, leaders of the dirge, who led the song of lamentation—they chanted the dirge, and thereat the women made lament. And amid these white-armed Andromache led the wailing, holding in her arms the while the head of man-slaying Hector: 24.721. /laid him on a corded bedstead, and by his side set singers, leaders of the dirge, who led the song of lamentation—they chanted the dirge, and thereat the women made lament. And amid these white-armed Andromache led the wailing, holding in her arms the while the head of man-slaying Hector: 24.722. /laid him on a corded bedstead, and by his side set singers, leaders of the dirge, who led the song of lamentation—they chanted the dirge, and thereat the women made lament. And amid these white-armed Andromache led the wailing, holding in her arms the while the head of man-slaying Hector:
2. Homer, Odyssey, 24.58-24.62 (8th cent. BCE - 7th cent. BCE)

3. Lucretius Carus, On The Nature of Things, 3.654-3.656 (1st cent. BCE - 1st cent. BCE)

4. Ovid, Fasti, 5.589-5.590 (1st cent. BCE - 1st cent. CE)

5.589. That shame would have remained, if Italy’s power 5.590. Had not been defended by Caesar’s strong weapons.
5. Ovid, Metamorphoses, 6.557-6.560 (1st cent. BCE - 1st cent. CE)

6. Vergil, Aeneis, 2.354, 6.33, 6.494-6.497, 6.525-6.529, 8.499-8.500 (1st cent. BCE - 1st cent. BCE)

2.354. let the imprisoned band of Greeks go free 6.33. Beyond, above a sea, lay carven Crete :— 6.494. A tomb with annual feasts and votive flowers 6.495. To Palinurus a perpetual fame!” 6.496. Thus was his anguish stayed, from his sad heart 6.497. Grief ebbed awhile, and even to this day 6.525. If loyal goodness move not such as thee 6.526. This branch at least” (she drew it from her breast) 6.527. “Thou knowest well.” 6.528. Then cooled his wrathful heart; 6.529. With silent lips he looked and wondering eyes 8.499. brought ruin on Troy 's sacred citadel 8.500. and ramparts soon to sink in hostile flames
7. Lucan, Pharsalia, 1.6-1.7, 2.21-2.28, 2.34-2.36, 2.38-2.42, 2.47, 2.85, 2.103-2.104, 2.115-2.116, 2.121, 2.140-2.144, 2.152-2.153, 2.159, 2.169-2.193, 2.221-2.222, 6.176, 6.350, 6.434-6.830, 7.764-7.776, 7.829 (1st cent. CE - 1st cent. CE)

8. Seneca The Younger, On Anger, 3.18.1 (1st cent. CE - 1st cent. CE)

9. Seneca The Younger, Oedipus, 967 (1st cent. CE - 1st cent. CE)

10. Silius Italicus, Punica, 13.380 (1st cent. CE - 2nd cent. CE)

11. Valerius Flaccus Gaius, Argonautica, 1.633 (1st cent. CE - 1st cent. CE)



Subjects of this text:

subject book bibliographic info
achilles Joseph, Thunder and Lament: Lucan on the Beginnings and Ends of Epic (2022) 58, 225
anchoring allusions Joseph, Thunder and Lament: Lucan on the Beginnings and Ends of Epic (2022) 64, 68
antiphony Joseph, Thunder and Lament: Lucan on the Beginnings and Ends of Epic (2022) 235
augustus König and Whitton, Roman Literature under Nerva, Trajan and Hadrian: Literary Interactions, AD 96–138 (2018) 149
caesar, julius, at the massilian grove Joseph, Thunder and Lament: Lucan on the Beginnings and Ends of Epic (2022) 73
castration Joseph, Thunder and Lament: Lucan on the Beginnings and Ends of Epic (2022) 66
cato the elder Joseph, Thunder and Lament: Lucan on the Beginnings and Ends of Epic (2022) 225, 235
civil war König and Whitton, Roman Literature under Nerva, Trajan and Hadrian: Literary Interactions, AD 96–138 (2018) 149
cornelia, as conventional mourner Joseph, Thunder and Lament: Lucan on the Beginnings and Ends of Epic (2022) 235
ennius, model / anti-model for lucan Joseph, Thunder and Lament: Lucan on the Beginnings and Ends of Epic (2022) 63, 64, 65, 66, 67, 68, 69, 70, 71, 72
goos Joseph, Thunder and Lament: Lucan on the Beginnings and Ends of Epic (2022) 225
hector Joseph, Thunder and Lament: Lucan on the Beginnings and Ends of Epic (2022) 225
helen Joseph, Thunder and Lament: Lucan on the Beginnings and Ends of Epic (2022) 66
hesperia, as evocative term in the ph. Joseph, Thunder and Lament: Lucan on the Beginnings and Ends of Epic (2022) 70
homer, conventions of Joseph, Thunder and Lament: Lucan on the Beginnings and Ends of Epic (2022) 225
homer, lucans use of Joseph, Thunder and Lament: Lucan on the Beginnings and Ends of Epic (2022) 73, 225, 235
homer, model / anti-model for lucan Joseph, Thunder and Lament: Lucan on the Beginnings and Ends of Epic (2022) 58, 60, 61, 62, 225, 235
homer, place of in epic poetry Joseph, Thunder and Lament: Lucan on the Beginnings and Ends of Epic (2022) 225
lucan König and Whitton, Roman Literature under Nerva, Trajan and Hadrian: Literary Interactions, AD 96–138 (2018) 149
lucretius Joseph, Thunder and Lament: Lucan on the Beginnings and Ends of Epic (2022) 61
marius gratidianus Joseph, Thunder and Lament: Lucan on the Beginnings and Ends of Epic (2022) 59, 60, 61, 62, 63, 64, 65, 66, 67, 68, 69, 70, 71, 72, 73
martial Joseph, Thunder and Lament: Lucan on the Beginnings and Ends of Epic (2022) 66
metapoetic diction, amputo Joseph, Thunder and Lament: Lucan on the Beginnings and Ends of Epic (2022) 64, 65, 66
metapoetic diction, degener Joseph, Thunder and Lament: Lucan on the Beginnings and Ends of Epic (2022) 72
metapoetic diction, fama Joseph, Thunder and Lament: Lucan on the Beginnings and Ends of Epic (2022) 66
metapoetic diction, membrum Joseph, Thunder and Lament: Lucan on the Beginnings and Ends of Epic (2022) 62
metapoetic diction, spiramen Joseph, Thunder and Lament: Lucan on the Beginnings and Ends of Epic (2022) 64, 65
narrator, poetic doublets of the narrator in the poem Joseph, Thunder and Lament: Lucan on the Beginnings and Ends of Epic (2022) 57
narrator Joseph, Thunder and Lament: Lucan on the Beginnings and Ends of Epic (2022) 57
ovid, as model and anti-model for lucan Joseph, Thunder and Lament: Lucan on the Beginnings and Ends of Epic (2022) 61, 67
patroclus Joseph, Thunder and Lament: Lucan on the Beginnings and Ends of Epic (2022) 225
pliny (the younger), panegyricus König and Whitton, Roman Literature under Nerva, Trajan and Hadrian: Literary Interactions, AD 96–138 (2018) 149
pliny (the younger) König and Whitton, Roman Literature under Nerva, Trajan and Hadrian: Literary Interactions, AD 96–138 (2018) 149
pliny the younger, and suetonius König and Whitton, Roman Literature under Nerva, Trajan and Hadrian: Literary Interactions, AD 96–138 (2018) 149
pompey, as object of lament Joseph, Thunder and Lament: Lucan on the Beginnings and Ends of Epic (2022) 235
pompey Joseph, Thunder and Lament: Lucan on the Beginnings and Ends of Epic (2022) 57
populus romanus, as central character in the pharsalia Joseph, Thunder and Lament: Lucan on the Beginnings and Ends of Epic (2022) 72
roma, as a character Joseph, Thunder and Lament: Lucan on the Beginnings and Ends of Epic (2022) 225
seneca Joseph, Thunder and Lament: Lucan on the Beginnings and Ends of Epic (2022) 59, 62, 66, 67
servius, as reader Joseph, Thunder and Lament: Lucan on the Beginnings and Ends of Epic (2022) 61, 69
silius italicus Joseph, Thunder and Lament: Lucan on the Beginnings and Ends of Epic (2022) 69
space and time in the ph. Joseph, Thunder and Lament: Lucan on the Beginnings and Ends of Epic (2022) 72, 73
statius Joseph, Thunder and Lament: Lucan on the Beginnings and Ends of Epic (2022) 69
suetonius König and Whitton, Roman Literature under Nerva, Trajan and Hadrian: Literary Interactions, AD 96–138 (2018) 149
threnos Joseph, Thunder and Lament: Lucan on the Beginnings and Ends of Epic (2022) 225
topoi, of deforestation of grove Joseph, Thunder and Lament: Lucan on the Beginnings and Ends of Epic (2022) 73
topoi, of mutilation on the battlefield Joseph, Thunder and Lament: Lucan on the Beginnings and Ends of Epic (2022) 60, 61, 62
trajan König and Whitton, Roman Literature under Nerva, Trajan and Hadrian: Literary Interactions, AD 96–138 (2018) 149
underworld Joseph, Thunder and Lament: Lucan on the Beginnings and Ends of Epic (2022) 63, 64, 235
varro atacinus Joseph, Thunder and Lament: Lucan on the Beginnings and Ends of Epic (2022) 61
violence' Joseph, Thunder and Lament: Lucan on the Beginnings and Ends of Epic (2022) 63
violence Joseph, Thunder and Lament: Lucan on the Beginnings and Ends of Epic (2022) 56, 57, 58, 59, 60, 61, 62, 64, 65, 66, 67, 68, 69, 70, 71, 72, 73
virgil, as model and anti-model for lucan Joseph, Thunder and Lament: Lucan on the Beginnings and Ends of Epic (2022) 58, 67
virgil Joseph, Thunder and Lament: Lucan on the Beginnings and Ends of Epic (2022) 61