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Lucan, Pharsalia, 2.38-2.42
nan The stiffening limbs and gazes on the face, In nameless dread, not sorrow, and in awe Of death approaching: and with mind distraught Clings to the dying in a last embrace. The matrons laid aside their wonted garb: Crowds filled the temples — on the unpitying stones Some dashed their bosoms; others bathed with tears The statues of the gods; some tore their hair Upon the holy threshold, and with shrieks And vows unceasing called upon the names
nan The stiffening limbs and gazes on the face, In nameless dread, not sorrow, and in awe Of death approaching: and with mind distraught Clings to the dying in a last embrace. The matrons laid aside their wonted garb: Crowds filled the temples — on the unpitying stones Some dashed their bosoms; others bathed with tears The statues of the gods; some tore their hair Upon the holy threshold, and with shrieks And vows unceasing called upon the names
nan Of those whom mortals supplicate. Nor all Lay in the Thunderer's fane: at every shrine Some prayers are offered which refused shall bring Reproach on heaven. One whose livid arms Were dark with blows, whose cheeks with tears bedewed And riven, cried, "Beat, mothers, beat the breast, Tear now the lock; while doubtful in the scales Still fortune hangs, nor yet the fight is won, You still may grieve: when either wins rejoice." Thus sorrow stirs itself. Meanwhile the men
nan Of those whom mortals supplicate. Nor all Lay in the Thunderer's fane: at every shrine Some prayers are offered which refused shall bring Reproach on heaven. One whose livid arms Were dark with blows, whose cheeks with tears bedewed And riven, cried, "Beat, mothers, beat the breast, Tear now the lock; while doubtful in the scales Still fortune hangs, nor yet the fight is won, You still may grieve: when either wins rejoice." Thus sorrow stirs itself. Meanwhile the men
nan Of those whom mortals supplicate. Nor all Lay in the Thunderer's fane: at every shrine Some prayers are offered which refused shall bring Reproach on heaven. One whose livid arms Were dark with blows, whose cheeks with tears bedewed And riven, cried, "Beat, mothers, beat the breast, Tear now the lock; while doubtful in the scales Still fortune hangs, nor yet the fight is won, You still may grieve: when either wins rejoice." Thus sorrow stirs itself. Meanwhile the men

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6 results
1. Lucan, Pharsalia, 2.21-2.28, 2.34-2.36, 2.39-2.42, 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, 9.227-9.236 (1st cent. CE - 1st cent. CE)
2. Suetonius, Caligula, 24.3 (1st cent. CE - 2nd cent. CE)
3. Suetonius, Tiberius, 61 (1st cent. CE - 2nd cent. CE)
4. Tacitus, Annals, 6.19 (1st cent. CE - 2nd cent. CE) 6.19.  After these, Sextus Marius, the richest man of Spain, was arraigned for incest with his daughter and flung from the Tarpeian Rock; while, to leave no doubt that it was the greatness of his wealth which had redounded to his ruin, his copper-mines and gold-mines, though forfeit to the state, were reserved by Tiberius for himself. And as executions had whetted his appetite, he gave orders for all persons in custody on the charge of complicity with Sejanus to be killed. On the ground lay the huge hecatomb of victims: either sex, every age; the famous, the obscure; scattered or piled in mounds. Nor was it permitted to relatives or friends to stand near, to weep over them, or even to view them too long; but a cordon of sentries, with eyes for each beholder's sorrow, escorted the rotting carcasses, as they were dragged to the Tiber, there to float with the current or drift to the banks, with none to commit them to the flames or touch them. The ties of our common humanity had been dissolved by the force of terror; and before each advance of cruelty compassion receded.
5. Herodian, History of The Empire After Marcus, 4.14.7 (2nd cent. CE - 3rd cent. CE)
6. Scriptores Historiae Augustae, Marcus Antoninus, 3 (4th cent. CE - 5th cent. CE)

Subjects of this text:

subject	book bibliographic info
antiphony	Joseph, Thunder and Lament: Lucan on the Beginnings and Ends of Epic (2022) 235
c. suetonius tranquillus	Poulsen, Usages of the Past in Roman Historiography (2021), 244
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) 26
caligula, emperor	Poulsen, Usages of the Past in Roman Historiography (2021), 244
caracalla, emperor	Poulsen, Usages of the Past in Roman Historiography (2021), 244
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) 26
ciuilitas	Poulsen, Usages of the Past in Roman Historiography (2021), 244
civil war, discordia	Poulsen, Usages of the Past in Roman Historiography (2021), 244
civil wars, in lucan	Fertik, The Ruler's House: Contesting Power and Privacy in Julio-Claudian Rome (2019) 26
cornelia, as conventional mourner	Joseph, Thunder and Lament: Lucan on the Beginnings and Ends of Epic (2022) 235
dio cassius	Poulsen, Usages of the Past in Roman Historiography (2021), 244
domitian, emperor	Poulsen, Usages of the Past in Roman Historiography (2021), 244
emotion	Poulsen, Usages of the Past in Roman Historiography (2021), 244
emperor, princeps	Poulsen, Usages of the Past in Roman Historiography (2021), 244
families, in lucan	Fertik, The Ruler's House: Contesting Power and Privacy in Julio-Claudian Rome (2019) 26
fides	Poulsen, Usages of the Past in Roman Historiography (2021), 244
funeral rites/burials	Fertik, The Ruler's House: Contesting Power and Privacy in Julio-Claudian Rome (2019) 26
germanicus iulius caesar	Poulsen, Usages of the Past in Roman Historiography (2021), 244
grief, mourning	Poulsen, Usages of the Past in Roman Historiography (2021), 244
herodian	Poulsen, Usages of the Past in Roman Historiography (2021), 244
historia augusta	Poulsen, Usages of the Past in Roman Historiography (2021), 244
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
julia drusilla	Poulsen, Usages of the Past in Roman Historiography (2021), 244
l. aelius sejanus	Poulsen, Usages of the Past in Roman Historiography (2021), 244
lucan	Poulsen, Usages of the Past in Roman Historiography (2021), 244
lucan bellum civile, death in	Fertik, The Ruler's House: Contesting Power and Privacy in Julio-Claudian Rome (2019) 26
lucan bellum civile, families in	Fertik, The Ruler's House: Contesting Power and Privacy in Julio-Claudian Rome (2019) 26
lucan bellum civile	Fertik, The Ruler's House: Contesting Power and Privacy in Julio-Claudian Rome (2019) 26
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) 26
mourning, grief	Poulsen, Usages of the Past in Roman Historiography (2021), 244
one-man rule, in lucan	Fertik, The Ruler's House: Contesting Power and Privacy in Julio-Claudian Rome (2019) 26
pietas	Poulsen, Usages of the Past in Roman Historiography (2021), 244
pompey, allies of	Fertik, The Ruler's House: Contesting Power and Privacy in Julio-Claudian Rome (2019) 26
pompey, as object of lament	Joseph, Thunder and Lament: Lucan on the Beginnings and Ends of Epic (2022) 235
pompey, in lucan	Fertik, The Ruler's House: Contesting Power and Privacy in Julio-Claudian Rome (2019) 26
principate, the roman	Poulsen, Usages of the Past in Roman Historiography (2021), 244
rulers and ruled, love between	Fertik, The Ruler's House: Contesting Power and Privacy in Julio-Claudian Rome (2019) 26
seneca the younger	Poulsen, Usages of the Past in Roman Historiography (2021), 244
space and time in the ph.	Joseph, Thunder and Lament: Lucan on the Beginnings and Ends of Epic (2022) 73
tacitus, p. cornelius	Poulsen, Usages of the Past in Roman Historiography (2021), 244
tears	Poulsen, Usages of the Past in Roman Historiography (2021), 244
tiberius, emperor	Poulsen, Usages of the Past in Roman Historiography (2021), 244
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
violence	Joseph, Thunder and Lament: Lucan on the Beginnings and Ends of Epic (2022) 73
wives, in lucan	Fertik, The Ruler's House: Contesting Power and Privacy in Julio-Claudian Rome (2019) 26