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Lucan, Pharsalia, 7.7-7.20
nan In troubled sleep an empty dream conceived. For in the watches of the night he heard Innumerable Romans shout his name Within his theatre; the benches vied To raise his fame and place him with the gods; As once in youth, when victory was won O'er conquered tribes where swift Iberus flows, And where Sertorius' armies fought and fled, The west subdued, with no less majesty Than if the purple toga graced the car
nan In troubled sleep an empty dream conceived. For in the watches of the night he heard Innumerable Romans shout his name Within his theatre; the benches vied To raise his fame and place him with the gods; As once in youth, when victory was won O'er conquered tribes where swift Iberus flows, And where Sertorius' armies fought and fled, The west subdued, with no less majesty Than if the purple toga graced the car
nan In troubled sleep an empty dream conceived. For in the watches of the night he heard Innumerable Romans shout his name Within his theatre; the benches vied To raise his fame and place him with the gods; As once in youth, when victory was won O'er conquered tribes where swift Iberus flows, And where Sertorius' armies fought and fled, The west subdued, with no less majesty Than if the purple toga graced the car
nan In troubled sleep an empty dream conceived. For in the watches of the night he heard Innumerable Romans shout his name Within his theatre; the benches vied To raise his fame and place him with the gods; As once in youth, when victory was won O'er conquered tribes where swift Iberus flows, And where Sertorius' armies fought and fled, The west subdued, with no less majesty Than if the purple toga graced the car
nan In troubled sleep an empty dream conceived. For in the watches of the night he heard Innumerable Romans shout his name Within his theatre; the benches vied To raise his fame and place him with the gods; As once in youth, when victory was won O'er conquered tribes where swift Iberus flows, And where Sertorius' armies fought and fled, The west subdued, with no less majesty Than if the purple toga graced the car
nan In troubled sleep an empty dream conceived. For in the watches of the night he heard Innumerable Romans shout his name Within his theatre; the benches vied To raise his fame and place him with the gods; As once in youth, when victory was won O'er conquered tribes where swift Iberus flows, And where Sertorius' armies fought and fled, The west subdued, with no less majesty Than if the purple toga graced the car
nan In troubled sleep an empty dream conceived. For in the watches of the night he heard Innumerable Romans shout his name Within his theatre; the benches vied To raise his fame and place him with the gods; As once in youth, when victory was won O'er conquered tribes where swift Iberus flows, And where Sertorius' armies fought and fled, The west subdued, with no less majesty Than if the purple toga graced the car
nan In troubled sleep an empty dream conceived. For in the watches of the night he heard Innumerable Romans shout his name Within his theatre; the benches vied To raise his fame and place him with the gods; As once in youth, when victory was won O'er conquered tribes where swift Iberus flows, And where Sertorius' armies fought and fled, The west subdued, with no less majesty Than if the purple toga graced the car
nan In troubled sleep an empty dream conceived. For in the watches of the night he heard Innumerable Romans shout his name Within his theatre; the benches vied To raise his fame and place him with the gods; As once in youth, when victory was won O'er conquered tribes where swift Iberus flows, And where Sertorius' armies fought and fled, The west subdued, with no less majesty Than if the purple toga graced the car
nan In troubled sleep an empty dream conceived. For in the watches of the night he heard Innumerable Romans shout his name Within his theatre; the benches vied To raise his fame and place him with the gods; As once in youth, when victory was won O'er conquered tribes where swift Iberus flows, And where Sertorius' armies fought and fled, The west subdued, with no less majesty Than if the purple toga graced the car
nan He sat triumphant in his pure white gown A Roman knight, and heard the Senate's cheer. Perhaps, as ills drew near, his anxious soul, Shunning the future wooed the happy past; Or, as is wont, prophetic slumber showed That which was not to be, by doubtful forms Misleading; or as envious Fate forbade Return to Italy, this glimpse of RomeKind Fortune gave. Break not his latest sleep, Ye sentinels; let not the trumpet call
nan Book 7 Ne'er to the summons of the Eternal laws More slowly Titan rose, nor drave his steeds, Forced by the sky revolving, up the heaven, With gloomier presage; wishing to endure The pangs of ravished light, and dark eclipse; And drew the mists up, not to feed his flames, But lest his light upon Thessalian earth Might fall undimmed. Pompeius on that morn, To him the latest day of happy life
nan Book 7 Ne'er to the summons of the Eternal laws More slowly Titan rose, nor drave his steeds, Forced by the sky revolving, up the heaven, With gloomier presage; wishing to endure The pangs of ravished light, and dark eclipse; And drew the mists up, not to feed his flames, But lest his light upon Thessalian earth Might fall undimmed. Pompeius on that morn, To him the latest day of happy life
nan Book 7 Ne'er to the summons of the Eternal laws More slowly Titan rose, nor drave his steeds, Forced by the sky revolving, up the heaven, With gloomier presage; wishing to endure The pangs of ravished light, and dark eclipse; And drew the mists up, not to feed his flames, But lest his light upon Thessalian earth Might fall undimmed. Pompeius on that morn, To him the latest day of happy life

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

8 results
1. Homer, Iliad, 19.302 (8th cent. BCE - 7th cent. BCE) 19.302. /Wherefore I wail for thee in thy death and know no ceasing, for thou wast ever kind. So spake she wailing, and thereto the women added their laments; Patroclus indeed they mourned, but therewithal each one her own sorrows. But around Achilles gathered the elders of the Achaeans, beseeching him that he would eat; but he refused them, moaning the while:
2. Homer, Odyssey, 11.121-11.133, 23.268-23.280 (8th cent. BCE - 7th cent. BCE)
3. Lucretius Carus, On The Nature of Things, 1.62 (1st cent. BCE - 1st cent. BCE)
4. Lucan, Pharsalia, 1.131-1.133, 1.185-1.192, 2.40-2.42, 3.9-3.35, 5.794, 7.7-7.9, 7.11-7.25, 7.29-7.44, 7.764-7.776, 7.778, 7.785-7.786, 8.835-8.837, 9.13-9.14, 9.980-9.986, 9.1104-9.1108 (1st cent. CE - 1st cent. CE)
5. Plutarch, Pompey, 68.2 (1st cent. CE - 2nd cent. CE)
6. Seneca The Younger, Troades, 406 (1st cent. CE - 1st cent. CE)
7. Tacitus, Annals, 1.65.2 (1st cent. CE - 2nd cent. CE)
8. Florus Lucius Annaeus, Epitome Bellorum Omnium Annorum Dcc, 2.13.45

Subjects of this text:

subject	book bibliographic info
acheron	Lehoux et al., Lucretius: Poetry, Philosophy, Science (2013) 281
antiphony	Joseph, Thunder and Lament: Lucan on the Beginnings and Ends of Epic (2022) 255
beginnings (of poetry books)	Lehoux et al., Lucretius: Poetry, Philosophy, Science (2013) 280
blood	Shannon-Henderson, Power Play in Latin Love Elegy and its Multiple Forms of Continuity in Ovid’s (2019) 90
caecina severus, a.	Shannon-Henderson, Power Play in Latin Love Elegy and its Multiple Forms of Continuity in Ovid’s (2019) 90
caesar, julius, character in lucan	Joseph, Thunder and Lament: Lucan on the Beginnings and Ends of Epic (2022) 255
caesar, julius	Lehoux et al., Lucretius: Poetry, Philosophy, Science (2013) 280
cornelia	Joseph, Thunder and Lament: Lucan on the Beginnings and Ends of Epic (2022) 205, 254
cornelia metella	Mowat, Engendering the Future: Divination and the Construction of Gender in the Late Roman Republic (2021) 154
dreams	Lehoux et al., Lucretius: Poetry, Philosophy, Science (2013) 280, 281; Shannon-Henderson, Power Play in Latin Love Elegy and its Multiple Forms of Continuity in Ovid’s (2019) 90
expiation	Shannon-Henderson, Power Play in Latin Love Elegy and its Multiple Forms of Continuity in Ovid’s (2019) 90
fear	Shannon-Henderson, Power Play in Latin Love Elegy and its Multiple Forms of Continuity in Ovid’s (2019) 90
fortuna (fortune)	Mowat, Engendering the Future: Divination and the Construction of Gender in the Late Roman Republic (2021) 154
germanicus	Shannon-Henderson, Power Play in Latin Love Elegy and its Multiple Forms of Continuity in Ovid’s (2019) 90
germans, campaigns in	Shannon-Henderson, Power Play in Latin Love Elegy and its Multiple Forms of Continuity in Ovid’s (2019) 90
ghosts	Lehoux et al., Lucretius: Poetry, Philosophy, Science (2013) 280
homer, lucans use of	Joseph, Thunder and Lament: Lucan on the Beginnings and Ends of Epic (2022) 254, 255
homer, model / anti-model for lucan	Joseph, Thunder and Lament: Lucan on the Beginnings and Ends of Epic (2022) 204, 205, 254, 255
julia (wife of pompey)	Mowat, Engendering the Future: Divination and the Construction of Gender in the Late Roman Republic (2021) 154
julius caesar, gaius	Mowat, Engendering the Future: Divination and the Construction of Gender in the Late Roman Republic (2021) 154
landscapes	Shannon-Henderson, Power Play in Latin Love Elegy and its Multiple Forms of Continuity in Ovid’s (2019) 90
narrator	Joseph, Thunder and Lament: Lucan on the Beginnings and Ends of Epic (2022) 205
nostos, as master-trope explored by lucan	Joseph, Thunder and Lament: Lucan on the Beginnings and Ends of Epic (2022) 204, 205
odysseus	Joseph, Thunder and Lament: Lucan on the Beginnings and Ends of Epic (2022) 204, 205
oneiromancy	Mowat, Engendering the Future: Divination and the Construction of Gender in the Late Roman Republic (2021) 154
patria	Mowat, Engendering the Future: Divination and the Construction of Gender in the Late Roman Republic (2021) 154
patroclus	Joseph, Thunder and Lament: Lucan on the Beginnings and Ends of Epic (2022) 255
personifications	Lehoux et al., Lucretius: Poetry, Philosophy, Science (2013) 280
pharsalia, name of the poem	Joseph, Thunder and Lament: Lucan on the Beginnings and Ends of Epic (2022) 255
pompeius magnus, gnaeus (pompey)	Mowat, Engendering the Future: Divination and the Construction of Gender in the Late Roman Republic (2021) 154
pompey, as anti-odyssean	Joseph, Thunder and Lament: Lucan on the Beginnings and Ends of Epic (2022) 204, 205
rome/roman	Lehoux et al., Lucretius: Poetry, Philosophy, Science (2013) 280, 281
seneca the younger	Lehoux et al., Lucretius: Poetry, Philosophy, Science (2013) 281
sight/vision	Lehoux et al., Lucretius: Poetry, Philosophy, Science (2013) 281
stoicism	Mowat, Engendering the Future: Divination and the Construction of Gender in the Late Roman Republic (2021) 154
ultio'	Shannon-Henderson, Power Play in Latin Love Elegy and its Multiple Forms of Continuity in Ovid’s (2019) 90
underworld	Lehoux et al., Lucretius: Poetry, Philosophy, Science (2013) 280, 281
varus	Shannon-Henderson, Power Play in Latin Love Elegy and its Multiple Forms of Continuity in Ovid’s (2019) 90