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Lucan, Pharsalia, 8.599-8.600
nan Suspected by his victor. Why alone Should this our country please thee in thy fall? Why bringst thou here the burden of thy fates, Pharsalia's curse? In Caesar's eyes long since We have offence which by the sword alone Can find its condonation, in that we By thy persuasion from the Senate gained This our dominion. By our prayers we helped If not by arms thy cause. This sword, which fate Bids us make ready, not for thee I hold
nan Prepared, but for the vanquished; and on thee (Would it had been on Caesar) falls the stroke; For we are borne. as all things, to his side. And dost thou doubt, since thou art in my power, Thou art my victim? By what trust in us Cam'st thou, unhappy? Scarce our people tills The fields, though softened by the refluent Nile: Know well our strength, and know we can no more. Rome 'neath the ruin of Pompeius lies: Shalt thou, king, uphold him? Shalt thou dare

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1. Lucan, Pharsalia, 8.72-8.85, 8.88-8.105, 8.132-8.133, 8.189, 8.281, 8.283-8.288, 8.335, 8.422-8.447, 8.465, 8.473, 8.477-8.478, 8.485-8.487, 8.498, 8.525-8.526, 8.539, 8.542-8.549, 8.553, 8.559, 8.576, 8.584-8.586, 8.589-8.592, 8.597-8.598, 8.600-8.601, 8.605-8.606, 8.609, 8.615-8.616, 8.619, 8.627-8.631, 8.639-8.661, 8.663-8.711, 8.713-8.742 (1st cent. CE - 1st cent. CE)
2. Silius Italicus, Punica, 10.504-10.506, 10.565-10.567, 13.714-13.716 (1st cent. CE - 2nd cent. CE)

Subjects of this text:

subject	book bibliographic info
cannae	Roumpou (2023), Ritual and the Poetics of Closure in Flavian Literature. 123
cordus	Roumpou (2023), Ritual and the Poetics of Closure in Flavian Literature. 123
cornelia	Roumpou (2023), Ritual and the Poetics of Closure in Flavian Literature. 123
decapitation,chapter,heads on pikes	Mcclellan (2019), Paulinus Noster: Self and Symbols in the Letters of Paulinus of Nola, 70
flaminius	Roumpou (2023), Ritual and the Poetics of Closure in Flavian Literature. 123
funeral	Roumpou (2023), Ritual and the Poetics of Closure in Flavian Literature. 123
gracchus	Roumpou (2023), Ritual and the Poetics of Closure in Flavian Literature. 123
hannibal	Roumpou (2023), Ritual and the Poetics of Closure in Flavian Literature. 123
horror'	Mcclellan (2019), Paulinus Noster: Self and Symbols in the Letters of Paulinus of Nola, 70
nisus	Mcclellan (2019), Paulinus Noster: Self and Symbols in the Letters of Paulinus of Nola, 70
paulus,funeral of	Roumpou (2023), Ritual and the Poetics of Closure in Flavian Literature. 123
paulus	Roumpou (2023), Ritual and the Poetics of Closure in Flavian Literature. 123
pompey,abuse of	Mcclellan (2019), Paulinus Noster: Self and Symbols in the Letters of Paulinus of Nola, 70
pompey,funeral of	Roumpou (2023), Ritual and the Poetics of Closure in Flavian Literature. 123
pompey	Roumpou (2023), Ritual and the Poetics of Closure in Flavian Literature. 123
ritual,false	Roumpou (2023), Ritual and the Poetics of Closure in Flavian Literature. 123
ritual	Roumpou (2023), Ritual and the Poetics of Closure in Flavian Literature. 123
scipio (africanus)	Roumpou (2023), Ritual and the Poetics of Closure in Flavian Literature. 123
septimius	Mcclellan (2019), Paulinus Noster: Self and Symbols in the Letters of Paulinus of Nola, 70
spectacle	Roumpou (2023), Ritual and the Poetics of Closure in Flavian Literature. 123