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Lucan, Pharsalia, 3.240-3.241
nan First swift, then doubling backwards with the stream Of sinuous Meander: and from where Pactolus leaves his golden source and leaps From Earth permitting; and with rival wealth Rich Hermus parts the meads. Nor stayed the bands Of Troy, but (doomed as in old time) they joined Pompeius' fated camp: nor held them back The fabled past, nor Caesar's claimed descent From their Iulus. Syrian peoples came From palmy Idumea and the walls
nan First swift, then doubling backwards with the stream Of sinuous Meander: and from where Pactolus leaves his golden source and leaps From Earth permitting; and with rival wealth Rich Hermus parts the meads. Nor stayed the bands Of Troy, but (doomed as in old time) they joined Pompeius' fated camp: nor held them back The fabled past, nor Caesar's claimed descent From their Iulus. Syrian peoples came From palmy Idumea and the walls

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

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1. Vergil, Aeneis, 6.829-6.831 (1st cent. BCE - 1st cent. BCE) 6.829. Immortal athletes play, and wrestle long 6.830. 'gainst mate or rival on the tawny sand; 6.831. With sounding footsteps and ecstatic song
2. Lucan, Pharsalia, 1.12, 1.19, 1.408-1.419, 1.444-1.446, 1.450-1.462, 3.154-3.157, 3.160, 3.169-3.239, 3.241-3.297, 3.301-3.303, 3.316, 3.322, 3.342-3.348, 6.784-6.790, 9.16 (1st cent. CE - 1st cent. CE)
3. Cassius Dio, Roman History, 37.21.2 (2nd cent. CE - 3rd cent. CE) 37.21.2.  He celebrated the triumph in honour of all his wars at once, including in it many trophies beautifully decked out to represent each of his achievements, even the smallest; and after them all came one huge one, decked out in costly fashion and bearing an inscription stating that it was a trophy of the inhabited world.

Subjects of this text:

subject	book bibliographic info
africa, in the ph.	Joseph, Thunder and Lament: Lucan on the Beginnings and Ends of Epic (2022) 167
africa	Skempis and Ziogas, Geography, Topography, Landscape: Configurations of Space in Greek and Roman Epic (2014) 385, 388
agamemnon	Joseph, Thunder and Lament: Lucan on the Beginnings and Ends of Epic (2022) 167; Skempis and Ziogas, Geography, Topography, Landscape: Configurations of Space in Greek and Roman Epic (2014) 385
antiphony	Joseph, Thunder and Lament: Lucan on the Beginnings and Ends of Epic (2022) 167
asia minor	Skempis and Ziogas, Geography, Topography, Landscape: Configurations of Space in Greek and Roman Epic (2014) 385
battle	Skempis and Ziogas, Geography, Topography, Landscape: Configurations of Space in Greek and Roman Epic (2014) 373
boeotians	Skempis and Ziogas, Geography, Topography, Landscape: Configurations of Space in Greek and Roman Epic (2014) 384
caesar, julius, as hannibal revived	Joseph, Thunder and Lament: Lucan on the Beginnings and Ends of Epic (2022) 155
caesar, withdraws from gaul	Skempis and Ziogas, Geography, Topography, Landscape: Configurations of Space in Greek and Roman Epic (2014) 373, 384, 385, 388
caesar	Skempis and Ziogas, Geography, Topography, Landscape: Configurations of Space in Greek and Roman Epic (2014) 384, 385
catalogue, in lucan	Skempis and Ziogas, Geography, Topography, Landscape: Configurations of Space in Greek and Roman Epic (2014) 373, 384, 385, 388
cato the elder	Joseph, Thunder and Lament: Lucan on the Beginnings and Ends of Epic (2022) 167
civil war	Skempis and Ziogas, Geography, Topography, Landscape: Configurations of Space in Greek and Roman Epic (2014) 373, 385, 388
colchis	Skempis and Ziogas, Geography, Topography, Landscape: Configurations of Space in Greek and Roman Epic (2014) 385
crash landing in libya	Joseph, Thunder and Lament: Lucan on the Beginnings and Ends of Epic (2022) 167
east, the	Skempis and Ziogas, Geography, Topography, Landscape: Configurations of Space in Greek and Roman Epic (2014) 373, 385, 388
ennius, model / anti-model for lucan	Joseph, Thunder and Lament: Lucan on the Beginnings and Ends of Epic (2022) 155
gaul	Skempis and Ziogas, Geography, Topography, Landscape: Configurations of Space in Greek and Roman Epic (2014) 373, 384
geography, and conquest	Skempis and Ziogas, Geography, Topography, Landscape: Configurations of Space in Greek and Roman Epic (2014) 385, 388
geography, and perspective	Skempis and Ziogas, Geography, Topography, Landscape: Configurations of Space in Greek and Roman Epic (2014) 384
gods, the absence of their providence in lucan	Joseph, Thunder and Lament: Lucan on the Beginnings and Ends of Epic (2022) 155
greece	Skempis and Ziogas, Geography, Topography, Landscape: Configurations of Space in Greek and Roman Epic (2014) 385
hannibal	Joseph, Thunder and Lament: Lucan on the Beginnings and Ends of Epic (2022) 155
homer, lucans use of	Joseph, Thunder and Lament: Lucan on the Beginnings and Ends of Epic (2022) 167
imperialism	Skempis and Ziogas, Geography, Topography, Landscape: Configurations of Space in Greek and Roman Epic (2014) 373
india	Skempis and Ziogas, Geography, Topography, Landscape: Configurations of Space in Greek and Roman Epic (2014) 385
indians	Skempis and Ziogas, Geography, Topography, Landscape: Configurations of Space in Greek and Roman Epic (2014) 388
libya	Skempis and Ziogas, Geography, Topography, Landscape: Configurations of Space in Greek and Roman Epic (2014) 385
metapoetic diction, fragmentum	Joseph, Thunder and Lament: Lucan on the Beginnings and Ends of Epic (2022) 167
naevius, model and anti-model for lucan	Joseph, Thunder and Lament: Lucan on the Beginnings and Ends of Epic (2022) 167
orbis	Skempis and Ziogas, Geography, Topography, Landscape: Configurations of Space in Greek and Roman Epic (2014) 388
pompey, likened to agamemnon	Skempis and Ziogas, Geography, Topography, Landscape: Configurations of Space in Greek and Roman Epic (2014) 385
pompey	Skempis and Ziogas, Geography, Topography, Landscape: Configurations of Space in Greek and Roman Epic (2014) 373, 384, 385, 388
rivers	Skempis and Ziogas, Geography, Topography, Landscape: Configurations of Space in Greek and Roman Epic (2014) 388
rome, empire	Skempis and Ziogas, Geography, Topography, Landscape: Configurations of Space in Greek and Roman Epic (2014) 388
rome	Skempis and Ziogas, Geography, Topography, Landscape: Configurations of Space in Greek and Roman Epic (2014) 373, 384, 385, 388
scipio africanus	Joseph, Thunder and Lament: Lucan on the Beginnings and Ends of Epic (2022) 167
scythia	Skempis and Ziogas, Geography, Topography, Landscape: Configurations of Space in Greek and Roman Epic (2014) 385
sea	Skempis and Ziogas, Geography, Topography, Landscape: Configurations of Space in Greek and Roman Epic (2014) 384
sea power and seafaring, landings	Joseph, Thunder and Lament: Lucan on the Beginnings and Ends of Epic (2022) 167
sea power and seafaring	Joseph, Thunder and Lament: Lucan on the Beginnings and Ends of Epic (2022) 167
space and time in the ph.	Joseph, Thunder and Lament: Lucan on the Beginnings and Ends of Epic (2022) 155
spaces, as expression of perspective	Skempis and Ziogas, Geography, Topography, Landscape: Configurations of Space in Greek and Roman Epic (2014) 384
syrtes	Joseph, Thunder and Lament: Lucan on the Beginnings and Ends of Epic (2022) 167
taurus	Skempis and Ziogas, Geography, Topography, Landscape: Configurations of Space in Greek and Roman Epic (2014) 385
triumph'	Skempis and Ziogas, Geography, Topography, Landscape: Configurations of Space in Greek and Roman Epic (2014) 388
underworld	Joseph, Thunder and Lament: Lucan on the Beginnings and Ends of Epic (2022) 167
west, the	Skempis and Ziogas, Geography, Topography, Landscape: Configurations of Space in Greek and Roman Epic (2014) 385