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Lucan, Pharsalia, 2.152-2.153


nanWhere dwells the goddess and the sacred fire, Fell aged Scaevola, though that gory hand Had spared him, but the feeble tide of blood Still left the flame alive upon the hearth. That selfsame year the seventh time restored The Consul's rods; that year to Marius brought The end of life, when he at Fortune's hands All ills had suffered; all her goods enjoyed. "And what of those who at the Sacriport And Colline gate were slain, then, when the rule


nanWhere dwells the goddess and the sacred fire, Fell aged Scaevola, though that gory hand Had spared him, but the feeble tide of blood Still left the flame alive upon the hearth. That selfsame year the seventh time restored The Consul's rods; that year to Marius brought The end of life, when he at Fortune's hands All ills had suffered; all her goods enjoyed. "And what of those who at the Sacriport And Colline gate were slain, then, when the rule


Intertexts (texts cited often on the same page as the searched text):

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

2. Ovid, Metamorphoses, 6.557-6.560 (1st cent. BCE - 1st cent. CE)

3. Vergil, Aeneis, 6.33, 6.494-6.497, 6.525-6.529, 8.484-8.488, 8.499-8.500 (1st cent. BCE - 1st cent. BCE)

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 8.484. he made his own. Dare, O illustrious guest 8.485. to scorn the pomp of power. Shape thy soul 8.486. to be a god's fit follower. Enter here 8.487. and free from pride our frugal welcome share.” 8.488. So saying, 'neath his roof-tree scant and low 8.499. brought ruin on Troy 's sacred citadel 8.500. and ramparts soon to sink in hostile flames
4. 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, 2.114-2.116, 2.142-2.144, 2.153, 2.159, 2.169-2.193, 2.221-2.222, 6.176, 6.434-6.830, 7.764-7.776, 7.829 (1st cent. CE - 1st cent. CE)

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

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

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

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



Subjects of this text:

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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
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
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
ghosts Mcclellan, Paulinus Noster: Self and Symbols in the Letters of Paulinus of Nola (2019) 116
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
lucretius Joseph, Thunder and Lament: Lucan on the Beginnings and Ends of Epic (2022) 61
marius, gaius Mcclellan, Paulinus Noster: Self and Symbols in the Letters of Paulinus of Nola (2019) 116
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
mezentius, and torture Mcclellan, Paulinus Noster: Self and Symbols in the Letters of Paulinus of Nola (2019) 116
mezentius Mcclellan, Paulinus Noster: Self and Symbols in the Letters of Paulinus of Nola (2019) 116
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
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
sulla Mcclellan, Paulinus Noster: Self and Symbols in the Letters of Paulinus of Nola (2019) 116
thessaly Mcclellan, Paulinus Noster: Self and Symbols in the Letters of Paulinus of Nola (2019) 116
threnos Joseph, Thunder and Lament: Lucan on the Beginnings and Ends of Epic (2022) 225
thyestes, tiber river, corpse dumping in Mcclellan, Paulinus Noster: Self and Symbols in the Letters of Paulinus of Nola (2019) 116
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
torture' Mcclellan, Paulinus Noster: Self and Symbols in the Letters of Paulinus of Nola (2019) 116
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) 56, 57, 58, 59, 60, 61, 62, 63, 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