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Lucan, Pharsalia, 6.784-6.790

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These fears to cherish: soon returning life This frame shall quicken, and in tones which reach Even the timorous ear shall speak the man. If I have power the Stygian lakes to show, The bank that sounds with fire, the fury band, And giants lettered, and the hound that shakes Bristling with heads of snakes his triple head, What fear is this that cringes at the sight Of timid shivering shades?" Then to her prayer. First through his gaping bosom blood she pours

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Still fervent, washing from his wounds the gore. Then copious poisons from the moon distils Mixed with all monstrous things which Nature's pangs Bring to untimely birth; the froth from dogsStricken with madness, foaming at the stream; A lynx's entrails: and the knot that grows Upon the fell hyaena; flesh of stags Fed upon serpents; and the sucking fish Which holds the vessel back though eastern winds Make bend the canvas; dragon's eyes; and stones

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

9 results

1. Homer, Iliad, 15.582, 16.584, 16.744, 16.754, 16.812, 16.843 (8th cent. BCE - 7th cent. BCE)

16.584. /and he fell headlong upon the corpse, and death, that slayeth the spirit, was shed about him. Then over Patroclus came grief for his slain comrade, and he charged through the foremost fighters like a fleet falcon that driveth in flight daws and starlings; even so straight against the Lycians, O Patroclus, master of horsemen 16.812. /from their cars at his first coming with his chariot to learn his lesson of war. He it was that first hurled his spear at thee, knight Patroclus, yet subdued thee not; but he ran back again and mingled with the throng, when he had drawn forth the ashen spear from the flesh, and he abode not 16.843. /to the hollow ships, till thou hast cloven about the breast of man-slaying Hector the tunic red with his blood. So, I ween, spake he to thee, and persuaded thy wits in thy witlessness. Then, thy strength all spent, didst thou answer him, knight Patroclus:For this time, Hector, boast thou mightily; for to thee have

2. Horace, Epodes, 5 (1st cent. BCE - 1st cent. BCE)

3. Lucan, Pharsalia, 1.1-1.4, 1.72-1.80, 2.22-2.28, 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, 3.169, 3.190-3.197, 3.290-3.292, 4.807-4.809, 4.816-4.819, 6.413-6.783, 6.785-6.830, 7.356-7.360, 7.445-7.459, 7.770-7.776, 9.16 (1st cent. CE - 1st cent. CE)

4. Seneca The Younger, Medea, 800 (1st cent. CE - 1st cent. CE)

5. Seneca The Younger, Oedipus, 531-626, 530 (1st cent. CE - 1st cent. CE)

6. Apuleius, The Golden Ass, 2.28-2.30 (2nd cent. CE - 2nd cent. CE)

7. Heliodorus, Ethiopian Story, 6.12-6.15 (2nd cent. CE - 4th cent. CE)

8. 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.

9. Vergil, Aeneis, 6.824-6.825

6.824. of groves where all is joy,—a blest abode! 6.825. An ampler sky its roseate light bestows

Subjects of this text:

subject	book bibliographic info
africa,in the ph.	Joseph (2022), Thunder and Lament: Lucan on the Beginnings and Ends of Epic, 166, 167
agamemnon	Joseph (2022), Thunder and Lament: Lucan on the Beginnings and Ends of Epic, 167
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
antiphony	Joseph (2022), Thunder and Lament: Lucan on the Beginnings and Ends of Epic, 166, 167, 235, 236
apocalyptic literature	Joseph (2022), Thunder and Lament: Lucan on the Beginnings and Ends of Epic, 8
ara	Riess (2012), Performing interpersonal violence: court, curse, and comedy in fourth-century BCE Athens, 226
assistant	Pachoumi (2017), The Concepts of the Divine in the Greek Magical Papyri, 44
canidia	Riess (2012), Performing interpersonal violence: court, curse, and comedy in fourth-century BCE Athens, 226
cato the elder	Joseph (2022), Thunder and Lament: Lucan on the Beginnings and Ends of Epic, 130, 131, 166, 167, 235, 236
chersonese	Riess (2012), Performing interpersonal violence: court, curse, and comedy in fourth-century BCE Athens, 226
closure,passim	Joseph (2022), Thunder and Lament: Lucan on the Beginnings and Ends of Epic, 8
consulship,its destruction in the ph.	Joseph (2022), Thunder and Lament: Lucan on the Beginnings and Ends of Epic, 8
cornelia,as conventional mourner	Joseph (2022), Thunder and Lament: Lucan on the Beginnings and Ends of Epic, 235
crash landing in libya	Joseph (2022), Thunder and Lament: Lucan on the Beginnings and Ends of Epic, 167
curio,lamented	Joseph (2022), Thunder and Lament: Lucan on the Beginnings and Ends of Epic, 166
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
daimon of the dead	Pachoumi (2017), The Concepts of the Divine in the Greek Magical Papyri, 44
ennius,model / anti-model for lucan	Joseph (2022), Thunder and Lament: Lucan on the Beginnings and Ends of Epic, 64, 130, 131
erichtho	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
ericthos corpse	Joseph (2022), Thunder and Lament: Lucan on the Beginnings and Ends of Epic, 265, 266
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
funeral/funerary	Jeong (2023), Pauline Baptism among the Mysteries: Ritual Messages and the Promise of Initiation. 220
gods,the absence of their providence in lucan	Joseph (2022), Thunder and Lament: Lucan on the Beginnings and Ends of Epic, 8
goos	Joseph (2022), Thunder and Lament: Lucan on the Beginnings and Ends of Epic, 166
graves	Edmonds (2019), Drawing Down the Moon: Magic in the Ancient Greco-Roman World, 84
heliodorus	Jeong (2023), Pauline Baptism among the Mysteries: Ritual Messages and the Promise of Initiation. 220
homer,conventions of	Joseph (2022), Thunder and Lament: Lucan on the Beginnings and Ends of Epic, 166
homer,lucans use of	Joseph (2022), Thunder and Lament: Lucan on the Beginnings and Ends of Epic, 166, 167, 235, 236
homer,model / anti-model for lucan	Joseph (2022), Thunder and Lament: Lucan on the Beginnings and Ends of Epic, 235, 236
homer,praise in	Joseph (2022), Thunder and Lament: Lucan on the Beginnings and Ends of Epic, 166
homer,reproach in	Joseph (2022), Thunder and Lament: Lucan on the Beginnings and Ends of Epic, 166, 236
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
lucan	Edmonds (2019), Drawing Down the Moon: Magic in the Ancient Greco-Roman World, 84; Jeong (2023), Pauline Baptism among the Mysteries: Ritual Messages and the Promise of Initiation. 220
macedonia	Riess (2012), Performing interpersonal violence: court, curse, and comedy in fourth-century BCE Athens, 226
magic	Pachoumi (2017), The Concepts of the Divine in the Greek Magical Papyri, 44
marius gratidianus	Joseph (2022), Thunder and Lament: Lucan on the Beginnings and Ends of Epic, 64
marriage	Riess (2012), Performing interpersonal violence: court, curse, and comedy in fourth-century BCE Athens, 226
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,fama	Joseph (2022), Thunder and Lament: Lucan on the Beginnings and Ends of Epic, 265
metapoetic diction,fatum	Joseph (2022), Thunder and Lament: Lucan on the Beginnings and Ends of Epic, 130
metapoetic diction,fragmentum	Joseph (2022), Thunder and Lament: Lucan on the Beginnings and Ends of Epic, 167
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
naevius,model and anti-model for lucan	Joseph (2022), Thunder and Lament: Lucan on the Beginnings and Ends of Epic, 167
narrator,poetic doublets of the narrator in the poem	Joseph (2022), Thunder and Lament: Lucan on the Beginnings and Ends of Epic, 265
narrator	Joseph (2022), Thunder and Lament: Lucan on the Beginnings and Ends of Epic, 236
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
nenia,nero,reign of	Joseph (2022), Thunder and Lament: Lucan on the Beginnings and Ends of Epic, 8
patroclus	Joseph (2022), Thunder and Lament: Lucan on the Beginnings and Ends of Epic, 236
pharsalia,as a character	Joseph (2022), Thunder and Lament: Lucan on the Beginnings and Ends of Epic, 266
pharsalus	Luck (2006), Arcana mundi: magic and the occult in the Greek and Roman worlds: a collection of ancient texts, 246
pitys	Pachoumi (2017), The Concepts of the Divine in the Greek Magical Papyri, 44
pompey,as object of lament	Joseph (2022), Thunder and Lament: Lucan on the Beginnings and Ends of Epic, 235, 236
pompey	Joseph (2022), Thunder and Lament: Lucan on the Beginnings and Ends of Epic, 130; Luck (2006), Arcana mundi: magic and the occult in the Greek and Roman worlds: a collection of ancient texts, 246
populus romanus,as central character in the pharsalia	Joseph (2022), Thunder and Lament: Lucan on the Beginnings and Ends of Epic, 130, 131
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
resurrection	Pachoumi (2017), The Concepts of the Divine in the Greek Magical Papyri, 44
rhetoric	Edmonds (2019), Drawing Down the Moon: Magic in the Ancient Greco-Roman World, 84
scaeva	Joseph (2022), Thunder and Lament: Lucan on the Beginnings and Ends of Epic, 265
science	Edmonds (2019), Drawing Down the Moon: Magic in the Ancient Greco-Roman World, 84
scipio africanus	Joseph (2022), Thunder and Lament: Lucan on the Beginnings and Ends of Epic, 166, 167
sea power and seafaring,landings	Joseph (2022), Thunder and Lament: Lucan on the Beginnings and Ends of Epic, 166, 167
sea power and seafaring	Joseph (2022), Thunder and Lament: Lucan on the Beginnings and Ends of Epic, 166, 167
selinous	Riess (2012), Performing interpersonal violence: court, curse, and comedy in fourth-century BCE Athens, 226
seneca,lucius annaeus	Luck (2006), Arcana mundi: magic and the occult in the Greek and Roman worlds: a collection of ancient texts, 246
seneca	Joseph (2022), Thunder and Lament: Lucan on the Beginnings and Ends of Epic, 8
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
syrtes	Joseph (2022), Thunder and Lament: Lucan on the Beginnings and Ends of Epic, 167
thetima	Riess (2012), Performing interpersonal violence: court, curse, and comedy in fourth-century BCE Athens, 226
underworld	Joseph (2022), Thunder and Lament: Lucan on the Beginnings and Ends of Epic, 64, 130, 131, 166, 167, 235, 236
violence	Joseph (2022), Thunder and Lament: Lucan on the Beginnings and Ends of Epic, 64
virgil,as model and anti-model for lucan	Joseph (2022), Thunder and Lament: Lucan on the Beginnings and Ends of Epic, 131
virgil	Luck (2006), Arcana mundi: magic and the occult in the Greek and Roman worlds: a collection of ancient texts, 246
whore,cf. concubine witch,cf. magician,magos,shaman,sorcerer	Riess (2012), Performing interpersonal violence: court, curse, and comedy in fourth-century BCE Athens, 226
witches	Edmonds (2019), Drawing Down the Moon: Magic in the Ancient Greco-Roman World, 84
zeus'	Pachoumi (2017), The Concepts of the Divine in the Greek Magical Papyri, 44