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Lucan, Pharsalia, 6.510-6.515
nan And fires of heaven, or by victims slain, May know the fates to come; nor any source Lawful though secret. For to him was known That which excites the hate of gods above; Magicians' lore, the savage creed of Dis And all the shades; and sad with gloomy rites Mysterious altars. For his frenzied soul Heaven knew too little. And the spot itself Kindled his madness, for hard by there dwelt The brood of Haemon whom no storied witch
nan And fires of heaven, or by victims slain, May know the fates to come; nor any source Lawful though secret. For to him was known That which excites the hate of gods above; Magicians' lore, the savage creed of Dis And all the shades; and sad with gloomy rites Mysterious altars. For his frenzied soul Heaven knew too little. And the spot itself Kindled his madness, for hard by there dwelt The brood of Haemon whom no storied witch
nan And fires of heaven, or by victims slain, May know the fates to come; nor any source Lawful though secret. For to him was known That which excites the hate of gods above; Magicians' lore, the savage creed of Dis And all the shades; and sad with gloomy rites Mysterious altars. For his frenzied soul Heaven knew too little. And the spot itself Kindled his madness, for hard by there dwelt The brood of Haemon whom no storied witch
nan And fires of heaven, or by victims slain, May know the fates to come; nor any source Lawful though secret. For to him was known That which excites the hate of gods above; Magicians' lore, the savage creed of Dis And all the shades; and sad with gloomy rites Mysterious altars. For his frenzied soul Heaven knew too little. And the spot itself Kindled his madness, for hard by there dwelt The brood of Haemon whom no storied witch
nan And fires of heaven, or by victims slain, May know the fates to come; nor any source Lawful though secret. For to him was known That which excites the hate of gods above; Magicians' lore, the savage creed of Dis And all the shades; and sad with gloomy rites Mysterious altars. For his frenzied soul Heaven knew too little. And the spot itself Kindled his madness, for hard by there dwelt The brood of Haemon whom no storied witch
nan And fires of heaven, or by victims slain, May know the fates to come; nor any source Lawful though secret. For to him was known That which excites the hate of gods above; Magicians' lore, the savage creed of Dis And all the shades; and sad with gloomy rites Mysterious altars. For his frenzied soul Heaven knew too little. And the spot itself Kindled his madness, for hard by there dwelt The brood of Haemon whom no storied witch

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

10 results
1. Plautus, Amphitruo, 1044, 1043 (3rd cent. BCE - 2nd cent. BCE)
2. Horace, Epodes, 5 (1st cent. BCE - 1st cent. BCE)
3. Ovid, Amores, 3.7.27 (1st cent. BCE - missingth cent. CE)
4. Lucan, Pharsalia, 2.85, 2.103-2.104, 2.114-2.116, 2.142-2.144, 2.152-2.153, 2.159, 2.169-2.193, 2.221-2.222, 6.413-6.509, 6.511-6.830, 7.770-7.776 (1st cent. CE - 1st cent. CE)
5. Pliny The Elder, Natural History, 30.7 (1st cent. CE - 1st cent. CE)
6. Seneca The Younger, Medea, 800 (1st cent. CE - 1st cent. CE)
7. Seneca The Younger, Oedipus, 531-626, 530 (1st cent. CE - 1st cent. CE)
8. Apuleius, The Golden Ass, 2.28-2.30 (2nd cent. CE - 2nd cent. CE)
9. Papyri, Papyri Graecae Magicae, 4.1928-4.2144 (3rd cent. CE - 4th cent. CE)
10. Ammianus Marcellinus, History, 19.12.14 (4th cent. CE - 4th cent. CE) 19.12.14. For if anyone wore on his neck an amulet against the quartan ague or any other complaint, or was accused by the testimony of the evil-disposed of passing by a grave in the evening, on the ground that he was a dealer in poisons, or a gatherer of the horrors of tombs and the vain illusions of the ghosts that walk there, he was condemned to capital punishment and so perished.

Subjects of this text:

subject	book bibliographic info
ammianus marcellinus	Edmonds (2019), Drawing Down the Moon: Magic in the Ancient Greco-Roman World, 84
anchoring allusions	Joseph (2022), Thunder and Lament: Lucan on the Beginnings and Ends of Epic, 64
anxiety	Ker and Wessels (2020), The Values of Nighttime in Classical Antiquity: Between Dusk and Dawn, 248
apollo	Johnston and Struck (2005), Mantikê: Studies in Ancient Divination, 272
apuleius,lucius	Johnston and Struck (2005), Mantikê: Studies in Ancient Divination, 272
chersonese	Riess (2012), Performing interpersonal violence: court, curse, and comedy in fourth-century BCE Athens, 226
clodius	Ker and Wessels (2020), The Values of Nighttime in Classical Antiquity: Between Dusk and Dawn, 248
criminality	Ker and Wessels (2020), The Values of Nighttime in Classical Antiquity: Between Dusk and Dawn, 248
curse tablets	Edmonds (2019), Drawing Down the Moon: Magic in the Ancient Greco-Roman World, 84
curses	Edmonds (2019), Drawing Down the Moon: Magic in the Ancient Greco-Roman World, 84
daemonology	Luck (2006), Arcana mundi: magic and the occult in the Greek and Roman worlds: a collection of ancient texts, 246, 247, 248, 249, 250, 251, 252, 253, 254, 255, 256
ennius,model / anti-model for lucan	Joseph (2022), Thunder and Lament: Lucan on the Beginnings and Ends of Epic, 64
erichtho	Johnston and Struck (2005), Mantikê: Studies in Ancient Divination, 272; Riess (2012), Performing interpersonal violence: court, curse, and comedy in fourth-century BCE Athens, 226
erictho (thessalian witch)	Luck (2006), Arcana mundi: magic and the occult in the Greek and Roman worlds: a collection of ancient texts, 246
figurines	Edmonds (2019), Drawing Down the Moon: Magic in the Ancient Greco-Roman World, 84
frazer,james	Edmonds (2019), Drawing Down the Moon: Magic in the Ancient Greco-Roman World, 84
freud,s.	Luck (2006), Arcana mundi: magic and the occult in the Greek and Roman worlds: a collection of ancient texts, 255
freud,sigmund	Edmonds (2019), Drawing Down the Moon: Magic in the Ancient Greco-Roman World, 84
graf,fritz	Johnston and Struck (2005), Mantikê: Studies in Ancient Divination, 272
graves	Edmonds (2019), Drawing Down the Moon: Magic in the Ancient Greco-Roman World, 84
horace	Ker and Wessels (2020), The Values of Nighttime in Classical Antiquity: Between Dusk and Dawn, 248
hostels	Ker and Wessels (2020), The Values of Nighttime in Classical Antiquity: Between Dusk and Dawn, 248
inns	Ker and Wessels (2020), The Values of Nighttime in Classical Antiquity: Between Dusk and Dawn, 248
julius caesar	Luck (2006), Arcana mundi: magic and the occult in the Greek and Roman worlds: a collection of ancient texts, 246
killing	Riess (2012), Performing interpersonal violence: court, curse, and comedy in fourth-century BCE Athens, 226
lot divination (see sortition)	Johnston and Struck (2005), Mantikê: Studies in Ancient Divination, 272
lucan	Edmonds (2019), Drawing Down the Moon: Magic in the Ancient Greco-Roman World, 84
lycanthropy	Ker and Wessels (2020), The Values of Nighttime in Classical Antiquity: Between Dusk and Dawn, 248
macedonia	Riess (2012), Performing interpersonal violence: court, curse, and comedy in fourth-century BCE Athens, 226
marius gratidianus	Joseph (2022), Thunder and Lament: Lucan on the Beginnings and Ends of Epic, 64
medea	Johnston and Struck (2005), Mantikê: Studies in Ancient Divination, 272
metaphor	Edmonds (2019), Drawing Down the Moon: Magic in the Ancient Greco-Roman World, 84
metapoetic diction,amputo	Joseph (2022), Thunder and Lament: Lucan on the Beginnings and Ends of Epic, 64
metapoetic diction,spiramen	Joseph (2022), Thunder and Lament: Lucan on the Beginnings and Ends of Epic, 64
metonymy	Edmonds (2019), Drawing Down the Moon: Magic in the Ancient Greco-Roman World, 84
necromancy'	Johnston and Struck (2005), Mantikê: Studies in Ancient Divination, 272
necromancy	Luck (2006), Arcana mundi: magic and the occult in the Greek and Roman worlds: a collection of ancient texts, 246, 247, 248, 249, 250, 251, 252, 253, 254, 255, 256
night/nighttime,liminal	Ker and Wessels (2020), The Values of Nighttime in Classical Antiquity: Between Dusk and Dawn, 248
pamphile	Johnston and Struck (2005), Mantikê: Studies in Ancient Divination, 272
pharsalus	Luck (2006), Arcana mundi: magic and the occult in the Greek and Roman worlds: a collection of ancient texts, 246
pompey,sextus	Johnston and Struck (2005), Mantikê: Studies in Ancient Divination, 272
pompey	Luck (2006), Arcana mundi: magic and the occult in the Greek and Roman worlds: a collection of ancient texts, 246
puppy	Edmonds (2019), Drawing Down the Moon: Magic in the Ancient Greco-Roman World, 84
repetition	Edmonds (2019), Drawing Down the Moon: Magic in the Ancient Greco-Roman World, 84
rhetoric	Edmonds (2019), Drawing Down the Moon: Magic in the Ancient Greco-Roman World, 84
robbers	Ker and Wessels (2020), The Values of Nighttime in Classical Antiquity: Between Dusk and Dawn, 248
science	Edmonds (2019), Drawing Down the Moon: Magic in the Ancient Greco-Roman World, 84
seneca,lucius annaeus	Luck (2006), Arcana mundi: magic and the occult in the Greek and Roman worlds: a collection of ancient texts, 246
shelley,m.	Luck (2006), Arcana mundi: magic and the occult in the Greek and Roman worlds: a collection of ancient texts, 247
shelley,p. b.	Luck (2006), Arcana mundi: magic and the occult in the Greek and Roman worlds: a collection of ancient texts, 247
superstition	Edmonds (2019), Drawing Down the Moon: Magic in the Ancient Greco-Roman World, 84
thetima	Riess (2012), Performing interpersonal violence: court, curse, and comedy in fourth-century BCE Athens, 226
travel	Ker and Wessels (2020), The Values of Nighttime in Classical Antiquity: Between Dusk and Dawn, 248
underworld	Joseph (2022), Thunder and Lament: Lucan on the Beginnings and Ends of Epic, 64
violence	Joseph (2022), Thunder and Lament: Lucan on the Beginnings and Ends of Epic, 64
virgil	Luck (2006), Arcana mundi: magic and the occult in the Greek and Roman worlds: a collection of ancient texts, 246
witches	Edmonds (2019), Drawing Down the Moon: Magic in the Ancient Greco-Roman World, 84; Ker and Wessels (2020), The Values of Nighttime in Classical Antiquity: Between Dusk and Dawn, 248