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Lucan, Pharsalia, 2.27


nanThe world should suffer, from the truth divine, A solemn fast was called, the courts were closed, All men in private garb; no purple hem Adorned the togas of the chiefs of Rome; No plaints were uttered, and a voiceless grief Lay deep in every bosom: as when death Knocks at some door but enters not as yet, Before the mother calls the name aloud Or bids her grieving maidens beat the breast, While still she marks the glazing eye, and soothes


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

5 results
1. Catullus, Poems, 39.4-39.5 (1st cent. BCE - 1st cent. BCE)

2. Ovid, Remedia Amoris, 128, 127 (1st cent. BCE - 1st cent. CE)

3. Propertius, Elegies, 3.7.13, 3.7.18 (1st cent. BCE

4. Vergil, Aeneis, 9.477-9.502 (1st cent. BCE - 1st cent. BCE)

9.477. urprising all save Rhoetus, who awake 9.478. aw every stroke, and crouched in craven fear 9.479. behind a mighty wine-bowl; but not less 9.480. clean through his bare breast as he started forth 9.481. the youth thrust home his sword, then drew it back 9.482. death-dripping, while the bursting purple stream 9.483. of life outflowed, with mingling blood and wine. 9.484. Then, flushed with stealthy slaughter, he crept near 9.485. the followers of Messapus, where he saw 9.486. their camp-fire dying down, and tethered steeds 9.487. upon the meadow feeding. Nisus then 9.488. knew the hot lust of slaughter had swept on 9.489. too far, and cried, “Hold off! For, lo 9.490. the monitory dawn is nigh. Revenge 9.491. has fed us to the full. We have achieved 9.492. clean passage through the foe.” Full many a prize 9.493. was left untaken: princely suits of mail 9.494. enwrought with silver pure, huge drinking-bowls 9.495. and broideries fair. Yet grasped Euryalus 9.496. the blazonry at Rhamnes' corselet hung 9.497. and belt adorned with gold: which were a gift 9.498. to Remulus of Tibur from the store 9.499. of opulent Caedicus, who sued from far 9.500. to be a friend; and these in death he gave 9.501. to his son's son, who slain in battle fell 9.502. and proud Rutulians seized them with the spoil.
5. Lucan, Pharsalia, 2.21-2.26, 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, 2.221-2.222, 6.784-6.790, 8.727-8.728, 8.746-8.747, 8.767-8.770 (1st cent. CE - 1st cent. CE)



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antiphony Joseph, Thunder and Lament: Lucan on the Beginnings and Ends of Epic (2022) 235
caesar, julius, and pompey Fertik, The Ruler's House: Contesting Power and Privacy in Julio-Claudian Rome (2019) 35
caesar, julius, at the massilian grove Joseph, Thunder and Lament: Lucan on the Beginnings and Ends of Epic (2022) 73
caesar, julius, mutinous soldiers of Fertik, The Ruler's House: Contesting Power and Privacy in Julio-Claudian Rome (2019) 35
caesar, julius, soldiers cared for by Fertik, The Ruler's House: Contesting Power and Privacy in Julio-Claudian Rome (2019) 23, 35
cato the elder Joseph, Thunder and Lament: Lucan on the Beginnings and Ends of Epic (2022) 235
cato the younger Fertik, The Ruler's House: Contesting Power and Privacy in Julio-Claudian Rome (2019) 23
cicero, to paetus Sharrock and Keith, Maternal Conceptions in Classical Literature and Philosophy (2020) 272
cornelia, as conventional mourner Joseph, Thunder and Lament: Lucan on the Beginnings and Ends of Epic (2022) 235
cornelia Fertik, The Ruler's House: Contesting Power and Privacy in Julio-Claudian Rome (2019) 35
euryalus, mother of Sharrock and Keith, Maternal Conceptions in Classical Literature and Philosophy (2020) 272
families, and caesar Fertik, The Ruler's House: Contesting Power and Privacy in Julio-Claudian Rome (2019) 23
families, and cato the younger Fertik, The Ruler's House: Contesting Power and Privacy in Julio-Claudian Rome (2019) 23
families, and pompey Fertik, The Ruler's House: Contesting Power and Privacy in Julio-Claudian Rome (2019) 23
families, commanders and soldiers as Fertik, The Ruler's House: Contesting Power and Privacy in Julio-Claudian Rome (2019) 23, 35
families, in lucan Fertik, The Ruler's House: Contesting Power and Privacy in Julio-Claudian Rome (2019) 23, 35
families, of soldiers Fertik, The Ruler's House: Contesting Power and Privacy in Julio-Claudian Rome (2019) 23
funeral rites/burials Fertik, The Ruler's House: Contesting Power and Privacy in Julio-Claudian Rome (2019) 35
homer, lucans use of Joseph, Thunder and Lament: Lucan on the Beginnings and Ends of Epic (2022) 73, 235
homer, model / anti-model for lucan Joseph, Thunder and Lament: Lucan on the Beginnings and Ends of Epic (2022) 235
lucan Sharrock and Keith, Maternal Conceptions in Classical Literature and Philosophy (2020) 272
lucan bellum civile, commanders and soldiers in Fertik, The Ruler's House: Contesting Power and Privacy in Julio-Claudian Rome (2019) 23, 35
lucan bellum civile, death in Fertik, The Ruler's House: Contesting Power and Privacy in Julio-Claudian Rome (2019) 35
lucan bellum civile, families in Fertik, The Ruler's House: Contesting Power and Privacy in Julio-Claudian Rome (2019) 23, 35
lucan bellum civile, mourning in Fertik, The Ruler's House: Contesting Power and Privacy in Julio-Claudian Rome (2019) 23, 35
lucan bellum civile Fertik, The Ruler's House: Contesting Power and Privacy in Julio-Claudian Rome (2019) 23, 35
marius gratidianus Joseph, Thunder and Lament: Lucan on the Beginnings and Ends of Epic (2022) 73
matronae Fertik, The Ruler's House: Contesting Power and Privacy in Julio-Claudian Rome (2019) 23
mourning, female vs. male Sharrock and Keith, Maternal Conceptions in Classical Literature and Philosophy (2020) 272
mourning, maternal' Sharrock and Keith, Maternal Conceptions in Classical Literature and Philosophy (2020) 272
ovid Sharrock and Keith, Maternal Conceptions in Classical Literature and Philosophy (2020) 272
paetus Sharrock and Keith, Maternal Conceptions in Classical Literature and Philosophy (2020) 272
pompey, and caesar Fertik, The Ruler's House: Contesting Power and Privacy in Julio-Claudian Rome (2019) 35
pompey, and family Fertik, The Ruler's House: Contesting Power and Privacy in Julio-Claudian Rome (2019) 23
pompey, as object of lament Joseph, Thunder and Lament: Lucan on the Beginnings and Ends of Epic (2022) 235
pompey, assassination of Fertik, The Ruler's House: Contesting Power and Privacy in Julio-Claudian Rome (2019) 35
pompey, body of Fertik, The Ruler's House: Contesting Power and Privacy in Julio-Claudian Rome (2019) 35
pompey, death and funeral of Fertik, The Ruler's House: Contesting Power and Privacy in Julio-Claudian Rome (2019) 35
pompey, in lucan Fertik, The Ruler's House: Contesting Power and Privacy in Julio-Claudian Rome (2019) 23
pompey, mourning for Fertik, The Ruler's House: Contesting Power and Privacy in Julio-Claudian Rome (2019) 35
pompey, soldiers as family to Fertik, The Ruler's House: Contesting Power and Privacy in Julio-Claudian Rome (2019) 35
pompey, soldiers of Fertik, The Ruler's House: Contesting Power and Privacy in Julio-Claudian Rome (2019) 23
propertius Sharrock and Keith, Maternal Conceptions in Classical Literature and Philosophy (2020) 272
rome, in lucan Fertik, The Ruler's House: Contesting Power and Privacy in Julio-Claudian Rome (2019) 23, 35
rulers Fertik, The Ruler's House: Contesting Power and Privacy in Julio-Claudian Rome (2019) 23
rulers and ruled, interdependence of Fertik, The Ruler's House: Contesting Power and Privacy in Julio-Claudian Rome (2019) 23
rulers and ruled, love between Fertik, The Ruler's House: Contesting Power and Privacy in Julio-Claudian Rome (2019) 35
soldiers and cato the younger, commanders as family of Fertik, The Ruler's House: Contesting Power and Privacy in Julio-Claudian Rome (2019) 23, 35
soldiers and cato the younger, devotion of to pompey Fertik, The Ruler's House: Contesting Power and Privacy in Julio-Claudian Rome (2019) 35
soldiers and cato the younger, families of Fertik, The Ruler's House: Contesting Power and Privacy in Julio-Claudian Rome (2019) 23
soldiers and cato the younger Fertik, The Ruler's House: Contesting Power and Privacy in Julio-Claudian Rome (2019) 23
space and time in the ph. Joseph, Thunder and Lament: Lucan on the Beginnings and Ends of Epic (2022) 73
topoi, of deforestation of grove Joseph, Thunder and Lament: Lucan on the Beginnings and Ends of Epic (2022) 73
underworld Joseph, Thunder and Lament: Lucan on the Beginnings and Ends of Epic (2022) 235
violence Joseph, Thunder and Lament: Lucan on the Beginnings and Ends of Epic (2022) 56, 73
virgil, aeneid Sharrock and Keith, Maternal Conceptions in Classical Literature and Philosophy (2020) 272
wives, in lucan Fertik, The Ruler's House: Contesting Power and Privacy in Julio-Claudian Rome (2019) 23, 35