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Lucan, Pharsalia, 2.221


nanAnd Earth upheaved, have laid such numbers low: But ne'er one man's revenge. Between the slain And living victims there was space no more, Death thus let slip, to deal the fatal blow. Hardly when struck they fell; the severed head Scarce toppled from the shoulders; but the slain Blent in a weighty pile of massacre Pressed out the life and helped the murderer's arm. Secure from stain upon his lofty throne, Unshuddering sat the author of the whole


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

13 results
1. Homer, Iliad, 24.719-24.722 (8th cent. BCE - 7th cent. BCE)

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. Cicero, On Friendship, 12 (2nd cent. BCE - 1st cent. BCE)

4. Cicero, Republic, 6.12 (2nd cent. BCE - 1st cent. BCE)

6.12. Hic tu, Africane, ostendas oportebit patriae lumen animi, ingenii consiliique tui. Sed eius temporis ancipitem video quasi fatorum viam. Nam cum aetas tua septenos octiens solis anfractus reditusque converterit, duoque ii numeri, quorum uterque plenus alter altera de causa habetur, circuitu naturali summam tibi fatalem confecerint, in te unum atque in tuum nomen se tota convertet civitas, te senatus, te omnes boni, te socii, te Latini intuebuntur, tu eris unus, in quo nitatur civitatis salus, ac, ne multa, dictator rem publicam constituas oportet, si impias propinquorum manus effugeris. Hic cum exclamasset Laelius ingemuissentque vehementius ceteri, leniter arridens Scipio: St! quaeso, inquit, ne me e somno excitetis, et parumper audite cetera.
5. Lucretius Carus, On The Nature of Things, 3.654-3.656 (1st cent. BCE - 1st cent. BCE)

6. Ovid, Metamorphoses, 6.557-6.560, 13.448 (1st cent. BCE - missingth cent. CE)

7. Lucan, Pharsalia, 2.22-2.28, 2.34-2.36, 2.38-2.42, 2.47, 2.85, 2.103-2.104, 2.114-2.116, 2.121, 2.140-2.144, 2.152-2.153, 2.159, 2.169-2.193, 2.222, 6.350, 6.434-6.830, 7.770-7.776 (1st cent. CE - 1st cent. CE)

8. Plutarch, Tiberius And Gaius Gracchus, 10.4 (1st cent. CE - 2nd cent. CE)

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

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

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

12. Valerius Maximus, Memorable Deeds And Sayings, 3.2.17

13. Vergil, Aeneis, 6.33, 6.494-6.497, 6.525-6.529, 8.499-8.500

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


Subjects of this text:

subject book bibliographic info
achilles Joseph (2022), Thunder and Lament: Lucan on the Beginnings and Ends of Epic, 58, 225
aeneas,and human sacrifice Mcclellan (2019), Paulinus Noster: Self and Symbols in the Letters of Paulinus of Nola, 118
anchoring allusions Joseph (2022), Thunder and Lament: Lucan on the Beginnings and Ends of Epic, 64, 68
antiphony Joseph (2022), Thunder and Lament: Lucan on the Beginnings and Ends of Epic, 235
caesar,julius,at the massilian grove Joseph (2022), Thunder and Lament: Lucan on the Beginnings and Ends of Epic, 73
castration Joseph (2022), Thunder and Lament: Lucan on the Beginnings and Ends of Epic, 66
cato the elder Joseph (2022), Thunder and Lament: Lucan on the Beginnings and Ends of Epic, 225, 235
cornelia,as conventional mourner Joseph (2022), Thunder and Lament: Lucan on the Beginnings and Ends of Epic, 235
cornelia (mother of the gracchi) Walters (2020), Imagery of the Body Politic in Ciceronian Rome, 41
cornelius scipio africanus aemilianus,p. (scipio aemilianus),death of Walters (2020), Imagery of the Body Politic in Ciceronian Rome, 41
cornelius scipio nasica serapio (scipio nasica),murder of ti. gracchus Walters (2020), Imagery of the Body Politic in Ciceronian Rome, 41
cornelius sulla,p. (sulla),as salus rerum Walters (2020), Imagery of the Body Politic in Ciceronian Rome, 41
dictatorship,of sulla. Walters (2020), Imagery of the Body Politic in Ciceronian Rome, 41
ennius,model / anti-model for lucan Joseph (2022), Thunder and Lament: Lucan on the Beginnings and Ends of Epic, 63, 64, 65, 66, 67, 68, 69, 70, 71, 72
goos Joseph (2022), Thunder and Lament: Lucan on the Beginnings and Ends of Epic, 225
hector Joseph (2022), Thunder and Lament: Lucan on the Beginnings and Ends of Epic, 225
helen Joseph (2022), Thunder and Lament: Lucan on the Beginnings and Ends of Epic, 66
hesperia,as evocative term in the ph. Joseph (2022), Thunder and Lament: Lucan on the Beginnings and Ends of Epic, 70
homer,conventions of Joseph (2022), Thunder and Lament: Lucan on the Beginnings and Ends of Epic, 225
homer,lucans use of Joseph (2022), Thunder and Lament: Lucan on the Beginnings and Ends of Epic, 73, 225, 235
homer,model / anti-model for lucan Joseph (2022), Thunder and Lament: Lucan on the Beginnings and Ends of Epic, 58, 60, 61, 62, 225, 235
homer,place of in epic poetry Joseph (2022), Thunder and Lament: Lucan on the Beginnings and Ends of Epic, 225
lucretius Joseph (2022), Thunder and Lament: Lucan on the Beginnings and Ends of Epic, 61
marius,c.,described as pestilential Walters (2020), Imagery of the Body Politic in Ciceronian Rome, 41
marius gratidianus Joseph (2022), Thunder and Lament: Lucan on the Beginnings and Ends of Epic, 59, 60, 61, 62, 63, 64, 65, 66, 67, 68, 69, 70, 71, 72, 73; Mcclellan (2019), Paulinus Noster: Self and Symbols in the Letters of Paulinus of Nola, 118
martial Joseph (2022), Thunder and Lament: Lucan on the Beginnings and Ends of Epic, 66
metapoetic diction,amputo Joseph (2022), Thunder and Lament: Lucan on the Beginnings and Ends of Epic, 64, 65, 66
metapoetic diction,degener Joseph (2022), Thunder and Lament: Lucan on the Beginnings and Ends of Epic, 72
metapoetic diction,fama Joseph (2022), Thunder and Lament: Lucan on the Beginnings and Ends of Epic, 66
metapoetic diction,membrum Joseph (2022), Thunder and Lament: Lucan on the Beginnings and Ends of Epic, 62
metapoetic diction,spiramen Joseph (2022), Thunder and Lament: Lucan on the Beginnings and Ends of Epic, 64, 65
narrator,poetic doublets of the narrator in the poem Joseph (2022), Thunder and Lament: Lucan on the Beginnings and Ends of Epic, 57
narrator Joseph (2022), Thunder and Lament: Lucan on the Beginnings and Ends of Epic, 57
ovid,as model and anti-model for lucan Joseph (2022), Thunder and Lament: Lucan on the Beginnings and Ends of Epic, 61, 67
patroclus Joseph (2022), Thunder and Lament: Lucan on the Beginnings and Ends of Epic, 225; Mcclellan (2019), Paulinus Noster: Self and Symbols in the Letters of Paulinus of Nola, 118
polyxena Mcclellan (2019), Paulinus Noster: Self and Symbols in the Letters of Paulinus of Nola, 118
pompey,as object of lament Joseph (2022), Thunder and Lament: Lucan on the Beginnings and Ends of Epic, 235
pompey Joseph (2022), Thunder and Lament: Lucan on the Beginnings and Ends of Epic, 57
populus romanus,as central character in the pharsalia Joseph (2022), Thunder and Lament: Lucan on the Beginnings and Ends of Epic, 72
res publica,salus of Walters (2020), Imagery of the Body Politic in Ciceronian Rome, 41
roma,as a character Joseph (2022), Thunder and Lament: Lucan on the Beginnings and Ends of Epic, 225
seneca Joseph (2022), Thunder and Lament: Lucan on the Beginnings and Ends of Epic, 59, 62, 66, 67
servius,as reader Joseph (2022), Thunder and Lament: Lucan on the Beginnings and Ends of Epic, 61, 69
silius italicus Joseph (2022), Thunder and Lament: Lucan on the Beginnings and Ends of Epic, 69
space and time in the ph. Joseph (2022), Thunder and Lament: Lucan on the Beginnings and Ends of Epic, 72, 73
statius Joseph (2022), Thunder and Lament: Lucan on the Beginnings and Ends of Epic, 69
sulla Mcclellan (2019), Paulinus Noster: Self and Symbols in the Letters of Paulinus of Nola, 118
threnos Joseph (2022), Thunder and Lament: Lucan on the Beginnings and Ends of Epic, 225
topoi,of deforestation of grove Joseph (2022), Thunder and Lament: Lucan on the Beginnings and Ends of Epic, 73
topoi,of mutilation on the battlefield Joseph (2022), Thunder and Lament: Lucan on the Beginnings and Ends of Epic, 60, 61, 62
torture' Mcclellan (2019), Paulinus Noster: Self and Symbols in the Letters of Paulinus of Nola, 118
underworld Joseph (2022), Thunder and Lament: Lucan on the Beginnings and Ends of Epic, 63, 64, 235
varro atacinus Joseph (2022), Thunder and Lament: Lucan on the Beginnings and Ends of Epic, 61
violence Joseph (2022), Thunder and Lament: Lucan on the Beginnings and Ends of Epic, 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 (2022), Thunder and Lament: Lucan on the Beginnings and Ends of Epic, 58, 67
virgil Joseph (2022), Thunder and Lament: Lucan on the Beginnings and Ends of Epic, 61