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Lucan, Pharsalia, 6.810-6.811


nanHer cursed mouth had slimed. Last came her voice More potent than all herbs to charm the gods Who rule in Lethe. Dissonant murmurs first And sounds discordant from the tongues of men She utters, scarce articulate: the bay Of wolves, and barking as of dogs, were mixed With that fell chant; the screech of nightly owlRaising her hoarse complaint; the howl of beast And sibilant hiss of snake — all these were there; And more — the waft of waters on the rock


nanHer cursed mouth had slimed. Last came her voice More potent than all herbs to charm the gods Who rule in Lethe. Dissonant murmurs first And sounds discordant from the tongues of men She utters, scarce articulate: the bay Of wolves, and barking as of dogs, were mixed With that fell chant; the screech of nightly owlRaising her hoarse complaint; the howl of beast And sibilant hiss of snake — all these were there; And more — the waft of waters on the rock


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

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

2. Lucan, Pharsalia, 1.6-1.7, 1.19-1.20, 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, 3.197-3.200, 6.413-6.809, 6.811-6.830, 7.764-7.776, 7.825-7.834, 8.281, 8.444-8.447, 8.465, 8.477-8.478, 8.498, 8.525-8.526, 8.542-8.544, 8.559, 8.855-8.862, 8.871-8.872, 9.133-9.135, 9.266, 9.413, 9.705, 9.752, 9.816, 10.80, 10.142, 10.329-10.333 (1st cent. CE - 1st cent. CE)

3. Seneca The Younger, Medea, 817-819, 800 (1st cent. CE - 1st cent. CE)

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

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

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

7. 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, Drawing Down the Moon: Magic in the Ancient Greco-Roman World (2019) 84
anchoring allusions Joseph, Thunder and Lament: Lucan on the Beginnings and Ends of Epic (2022) 64
ara Riess, Performing interpersonal violence: court, curse, and comedy in fourth-century BCE Athens (2012) 226
assistant Pachoumi, The Concepts of the Divine in the Greek Magical Papyri (2017) 44
caesar (caius iulius caesar), foiled by acoreus Manolaraki, Noscendi Nilum Cupido: Imagining Egypt from Lucan to Philostratus (2012) 95
civil war Manolaraki, Noscendi Nilum Cupido: Imagining Egypt from Lucan to Philostratus (2012) 95
curse tablets Edmonds, Drawing Down the Moon: Magic in the Ancient Greco-Roman World (2019) 84
curses Edmonds, Drawing Down the Moon: Magic in the Ancient Greco-Roman World (2019) 84
daemonology Luck, Arcana mundi: magic and the occult in the Greek and Roman worlds: a collection of ancient texts (2006) 246, 247, 248, 249, 250, 251, 252, 253, 254, 255, 256
daimon of the dead Pachoumi, The Concepts of the Divine in the Greek Magical Papyri (2017) 44
ennius, model / anti-model for lucan Joseph, Thunder and Lament: Lucan on the Beginnings and Ends of Epic (2022) 64
erictho (thessalian witch) Luck, Arcana mundi: magic and the occult in the Greek and Roman worlds: a collection of ancient texts (2006) 246
ericthos corpse Joseph, Thunder and Lament: Lucan on the Beginnings and Ends of Epic (2022) 265, 266
figurines Edmonds, Drawing Down the Moon: Magic in the Ancient Greco-Roman World (2019) 84
frazer, james Edmonds, Drawing Down the Moon: Magic in the Ancient Greco-Roman World (2019) 84
freud, s. Luck, Arcana mundi: magic and the occult in the Greek and Roman worlds: a collection of ancient texts (2006) 255
freud, sigmund Edmonds, Drawing Down the Moon: Magic in the Ancient Greco-Roman World (2019) 84
funeral/funerary Jeong, Pauline Baptism among the Mysteries: Ritual Messages and the Promise of Initiation (2023) 220
geography Manolaraki, Noscendi Nilum Cupido: Imagining Egypt from Lucan to Philostratus (2012) 45, 95
graves Edmonds, Drawing Down the Moon: Magic in the Ancient Greco-Roman World (2019) 84
heliodorus Jeong, Pauline Baptism among the Mysteries: Ritual Messages and the Promise of Initiation (2023) 220
italy Manolaraki, Noscendi Nilum Cupido: Imagining Egypt from Lucan to Philostratus (2012) 45
julius caesar Luck, Arcana mundi: magic and the occult in the Greek and Roman worlds: a collection of ancient texts (2006) 246
lucan Edmonds, Drawing Down the Moon: Magic in the Ancient Greco-Roman World (2019) 84; Jeong, Pauline Baptism among the Mysteries: Ritual Messages and the Promise of Initiation (2023) 220
magic Pachoumi, The Concepts of the Divine in the Greek Magical Papyri (2017) 44
marius gratidianus Joseph, Thunder and Lament: Lucan on the Beginnings and Ends of Epic (2022) 64
metanarrative perspectives Manolaraki, Noscendi Nilum Cupido: Imagining Egypt from Lucan to Philostratus (2012) 95
metaphor Edmonds, Drawing Down the Moon: Magic in the Ancient Greco-Roman World (2019) 84
metapoetic diction, amputo Joseph, Thunder and Lament: Lucan on the Beginnings and Ends of Epic (2022) 64
metapoetic diction, fama Joseph, Thunder and Lament: Lucan on the Beginnings and Ends of Epic (2022) 265
metapoetic diction, spiramen Joseph, Thunder and Lament: Lucan on the Beginnings and Ends of Epic (2022) 64
metonymy Edmonds, Drawing Down the Moon: Magic in the Ancient Greco-Roman World (2019) 84
narrator, poetic doublets of the narrator in the poem Joseph, Thunder and Lament: Lucan on the Beginnings and Ends of Epic (2022) 265
necromancy Luck, Arcana mundi: magic and the occult in the Greek and Roman worlds: a collection of ancient texts (2006) 246, 247, 248, 249, 250, 251, 252, 253, 254, 255, 256
nile, divine and human realms Manolaraki, Noscendi Nilum Cupido: Imagining Egypt from Lucan to Philostratus (2012) 95
nile, indifferent Manolaraki, Noscendi Nilum Cupido: Imagining Egypt from Lucan to Philostratus (2012) 95
nile, inundation (flood) of the Manolaraki, Noscendi Nilum Cupido: Imagining Egypt from Lucan to Philostratus (2012) 45
nile, past and present Manolaraki, Noscendi Nilum Cupido: Imagining Egypt from Lucan to Philostratus (2012) 95
nile, sources of the Manolaraki, Noscendi Nilum Cupido: Imagining Egypt from Lucan to Philostratus (2012) 45
nile, tiber Manolaraki, Noscendi Nilum Cupido: Imagining Egypt from Lucan to Philostratus (2012) 95
pelusium, mouth of the nile Manolaraki, Noscendi Nilum Cupido: Imagining Egypt from Lucan to Philostratus (2012) 45
pharsalia, as a character Joseph, Thunder and Lament: Lucan on the Beginnings and Ends of Epic (2022) 266
pharsalus Luck, Arcana mundi: magic and the occult in the Greek and Roman worlds: a collection of ancient texts (2006) 246
pitys Pachoumi, The Concepts of the Divine in the Greek Magical Papyri (2017) 44
pompey Luck, Arcana mundi: magic and the occult in the Greek and Roman worlds: a collection of ancient texts (2006) 246
pompey (gnaeus pompeius magnus), defines egypt and the nile Manolaraki, Noscendi Nilum Cupido: Imagining Egypt from Lucan to Philostratus (2012) 45
puppy Edmonds, Drawing Down the Moon: Magic in the Ancient Greco-Roman World (2019) 84
repetition Edmonds, Drawing Down the Moon: Magic in the Ancient Greco-Roman World (2019) 84
resurrection Pachoumi, The Concepts of the Divine in the Greek Magical Papyri (2017) 44
rhetoric Edmonds, Drawing Down the Moon: Magic in the Ancient Greco-Roman World (2019) 84
rivers, literary and philosophic metaphors Manolaraki, Noscendi Nilum Cupido: Imagining Egypt from Lucan to Philostratus (2012) 45
scaeva Joseph, Thunder and Lament: Lucan on the Beginnings and Ends of Epic (2022) 265
science Edmonds, Drawing Down the Moon: Magic in the Ancient Greco-Roman World (2019) 84
selinous Riess, Performing interpersonal violence: court, curse, and comedy in fourth-century BCE Athens (2012) 226
seneca, lucius annaeus Luck, Arcana mundi: magic and the occult in the Greek and Roman worlds: a collection of ancient texts (2006) 246
shelley, m. Luck, Arcana mundi: magic and the occult in the Greek and Roman worlds: a collection of ancient texts (2006) 247
shelley, p. b. Luck, Arcana mundi: magic and the occult in the Greek and Roman worlds: a collection of ancient texts (2006) 247
superstition Edmonds, Drawing Down the Moon: Magic in the Ancient Greco-Roman World (2019) 84
underworld Joseph, Thunder and Lament: Lucan on the Beginnings and Ends of Epic (2022) 64
violence Joseph, Thunder and Lament: Lucan on the Beginnings and Ends of Epic (2022) 64
virgil Luck, Arcana mundi: magic and the occult in the Greek and Roman worlds: a collection of ancient texts (2006) 246
whore, cf. concubine witch, cf. magician, magos, shaman, sorcerer Riess, Performing interpersonal violence: court, curse, and comedy in fourth-century BCE Athens (2012) 226
witches Edmonds, Drawing Down the Moon: Magic in the Ancient Greco-Roman World (2019) 84
zeus' Pachoumi, The Concepts of the Divine in the Greek Magical Papyri (2017) 44