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Lucan, Pharsalia, 3.447-3.449


nanCrowned; and to shut Massilia from the land. Then did the Grecian city win renown Eternal, deathless, for that uncompelled Nor fearing for herself, but free to act She made the conqueror pause: and he who seized All in resistless course found here delay: And Fortune, hastening to lay the world Low at her favourite's feet, was forced to stay For these few moments her impatient hand. Now fell the forests far and wide, despoiled


nanCrowned; and to shut Massilia from the land. Then did the Grecian city win renown Eternal, deathless, for that uncompelled Nor fearing for herself, but free to act She made the conqueror pause: and he who seized All in resistless course found here delay: And Fortune, hastening to lay the world Low at her favourite's feet, was forced to stay For these few moments her impatient hand. Now fell the forests far and wide, despoiled


nanCrowned; and to shut Massilia from the land. Then did the Grecian city win renown Eternal, deathless, for that uncompelled Nor fearing for herself, but free to act She made the conqueror pause: and he who seized All in resistless course found here delay: And Fortune, hastening to lay the world Low at her favourite's feet, was forced to stay For these few moments her impatient hand. Now fell the forests far and wide, despoiled


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

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1. Homer, Iliad, 23.114-23.122 (8th cent. BCE - 7th cent. BCE)

23.114. /while yet they wailed around the piteous corpse. But the lord Agamemnon sent forth mules an men from all sides from out the huts to fetch wood and a man of valour watched thereover, even Meriones, squire of kindly Idomeneus. And they went forth bearing in their hands axes for the cutting of wood 23.115. /and well-woven ropes, and before them went the mules: and ever upward, downward, sideward, and aslant they fared. But when they were come to the spurs of many-fountained Ida, forthwith they set them to fill high-crested oaks with the long-edged bronze in busy haste and with a mighty crash the trees kept falling. 23.116. /and well-woven ropes, and before them went the mules: and ever upward, downward, sideward, and aslant they fared. But when they were come to the spurs of many-fountained Ida, forthwith they set them to fill high-crested oaks with the long-edged bronze in busy haste and with a mighty crash the trees kept falling. 23.117. /and well-woven ropes, and before them went the mules: and ever upward, downward, sideward, and aslant they fared. But when they were come to the spurs of many-fountained Ida, forthwith they set them to fill high-crested oaks with the long-edged bronze in busy haste and with a mighty crash the trees kept falling. 23.118. /and well-woven ropes, and before them went the mules: and ever upward, downward, sideward, and aslant they fared. But when they were come to the spurs of many-fountained Ida, forthwith they set them to fill high-crested oaks with the long-edged bronze in busy haste and with a mighty crash the trees kept falling. 23.119. /and well-woven ropes, and before them went the mules: and ever upward, downward, sideward, and aslant they fared. But when they were come to the spurs of many-fountained Ida, forthwith they set them to fill high-crested oaks with the long-edged bronze in busy haste and with a mighty crash the trees kept falling. 23.120. /Then the Achaeans split the trunks asunder and bound them behind the mules, and these tore up the earth with their feet as they hasted toward the plain through the thick underbrush. And all the woodcutters bare logs; for so were they bidden of Meriones, squire of kindly Idomeneus. 23.121. /Then the Achaeans split the trunks asunder and bound them behind the mules, and these tore up the earth with their feet as they hasted toward the plain through the thick underbrush. And all the woodcutters bare logs; for so were they bidden of Meriones, squire of kindly Idomeneus. 23.122. /Then the Achaeans split the trunks asunder and bound them behind the mules, and these tore up the earth with their feet as they hasted toward the plain through the thick underbrush. And all the woodcutters bare logs; for so were they bidden of Meriones, squire of kindly Idomeneus.
2. Ovid, Metamorphoses, 8.744 (1st cent. BCE - missingth cent. CE)

3. Lucan, Pharsalia, 2.47, 2.85, 2.493, 3.394, 3.436-3.437, 3.439, 3.448-3.449, 9.173 (1st cent. CE - 1st cent. CE)

4. Silius Italicus, Punica, 10.527-10.534 (1st cent. CE - 2nd cent. CE)

5. Vergil, Aeneis, 6.179-6.182

6.179. Cocytus circles through the sightless gloom. 6.180. But if it be thy dream and fond desire 6.181. Twice o'er the Stygian gulf to travel, twice 6.182. On glooms of Tartarus to set thine eyes


Subjects of this text:

subject book bibliographic info
anchoring allusions Joseph (2022), Thunder and Lament: Lucan on the Beginnings and Ends of Epic, 78
anger,divine Braund and Most (2004), Ancient Anger: Perspectives from Homer to Galen, 242
anger,in roman epic Braund and Most (2004), Ancient Anger: Perspectives from Homer to Galen, 242
antiphony Joseph (2022), Thunder and Lament: Lucan on the Beginnings and Ends of Epic, 83
caesar,julius,anger of Braund and Most (2004), Ancient Anger: Perspectives from Homer to Galen, 242
caesar,julius,at the massilian grove Joseph (2022), Thunder and Lament: Lucan on the Beginnings and Ends of Epic, 74, 75, 76, 77, 78, 79, 80, 81, 82, 83
civil war Braund and Most (2004), Ancient Anger: Perspectives from Homer to Galen, 242
cornelia Joseph (2022), Thunder and Lament: Lucan on the Beginnings and Ends of Epic, 83
ennius,alignment with / adaptation of homer Joseph (2022), Thunder and Lament: Lucan on the Beginnings and Ends of Epic, 79
ennius,model / anti-model for lucan Joseph (2022), Thunder and Lament: Lucan on the Beginnings and Ends of Epic, 78, 79, 80, 81
epic poetry,roman Braund and Most (2004), Ancient Anger: Perspectives from Homer to Galen, 242
erysichthon Braund and Most (2004), Ancient Anger: Perspectives from Homer to Galen, 242
homer,aligned with ennius Joseph (2022), Thunder and Lament: Lucan on the Beginnings and Ends of Epic, 79
homer,lucans use of Joseph (2022), Thunder and Lament: Lucan on the Beginnings and Ends of Epic, 81, 82, 83
homer,model / anti-model for lucan Joseph (2022), Thunder and Lament: Lucan on the Beginnings and Ends of Epic, 77
ira/irasci,divine Braund and Most (2004), Ancient Anger: Perspectives from Homer to Galen, 242
lucan Braund and Most (2004), Ancient Anger: Perspectives from Homer to Galen, 242
marius Braund and Most (2004), Ancient Anger: Perspectives from Homer to Galen, 242
massilia Braund and Most (2004), Ancient Anger: Perspectives from Homer to Galen, 242
metapoetic diction,fama Joseph (2022), Thunder and Lament: Lucan on the Beginnings and Ends of Epic, 80, 81
metapoetic diction,frons Joseph (2022), Thunder and Lament: Lucan on the Beginnings and Ends of Epic, 81, 83
metapoetic diction,membrum Joseph (2022), Thunder and Lament: Lucan on the Beginnings and Ends of Epic, 80
metapoetic diction,primus / primum Joseph (2022), Thunder and Lament: Lucan on the Beginnings and Ends of Epic, 83
metapoetic diction,silua Joseph (2022), Thunder and Lament: Lucan on the Beginnings and Ends of Epic, 75, 76, 79, 83
ovid,as model and anti-model for lucan Joseph (2022), Thunder and Lament: Lucan on the Beginnings and Ends of Epic, 74, 80, 81, 82
pompey Joseph (2022), Thunder and Lament: Lucan on the Beginnings and Ends of Epic, 80, 81
saturn Braund and Most (2004), Ancient Anger: Perspectives from Homer to Galen, 242
scaeva Joseph (2022), Thunder and Lament: Lucan on the Beginnings and Ends of Epic, 83
silius italicus Joseph (2022), Thunder and Lament: Lucan on the Beginnings and Ends of Epic, 74
statius Joseph (2022), Thunder and Lament: Lucan on the Beginnings and Ends of Epic, 74, 76
topoi,of deforestation of grove Joseph (2022), Thunder and Lament: Lucan on the Beginnings and Ends of Epic, 74
topoi,of one-against-many in battle Joseph (2022), Thunder and Lament: Lucan on the Beginnings and Ends of Epic, 83
vacca Joseph (2022), Thunder and Lament: Lucan on the Beginnings and Ends of Epic, 76
violence' Joseph (2022), Thunder and Lament: Lucan on the Beginnings and Ends of Epic, 83
violence Joseph (2022), Thunder and Lament: Lucan on the Beginnings and Ends of Epic, 74, 75, 76, 77, 78, 79, 80, 81, 82
virgil,as model and anti-model for lucan Joseph (2022), Thunder and Lament: Lucan on the Beginnings and Ends of Epic, 78, 79, 81
virgil Joseph (2022), Thunder and Lament: Lucan on the Beginnings and Ends of Epic, 75