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Lucan, Pharsalia, 8.727-8.742
nan And proved himself in dying; in his breast These thoughts revolving: "In the years to come Men shall make mention of our Roman toils, Gaze on this boat, ponder the Pharian faith; And think upon thy fame and all the years While fortune smiled: but for the ills of life How thou could'st bear them, this men shall not know Save by thy death. Then weigh thou not the shame That waits on thine undoing. Whose strikes, The blow is Caesar's. Men may tear this frame
nan And proved himself in dying; in his breast These thoughts revolving: "In the years to come Men shall make mention of our Roman toils, Gaze on this boat, ponder the Pharian faith; And think upon thy fame and all the years While fortune smiled: but for the ills of life How thou could'st bear them, this men shall not know Save by thy death. Then weigh thou not the shame That waits on thine undoing. Whose strikes, The blow is Caesar's. Men may tear this frame
nan And proved himself in dying; in his breast These thoughts revolving: "In the years to come Men shall make mention of our Roman toils, Gaze on this boat, ponder the Pharian faith; And think upon thy fame and all the years While fortune smiled: but for the ills of life How thou could'st bear them, this men shall not know Save by thy death. Then weigh thou not the shame That waits on thine undoing. Whose strikes, The blow is Caesar's. Men may tear this frame
nan And cast it mangled to the winds of heaven; Yet have I prospered, nor can all the gods Call back my triumphs. Life may bring defeat, But death no misery. If my spouse and son Behold me murdered, silently the more I suffer: admiration at my death Shall prove their love." Thus did Pompeius die, Guarding his thoughts. But now Cornelia filled The air with lamentations at the sight; "O, husband, whom my wicked self hath slain!
nan And cast it mangled to the winds of heaven; Yet have I prospered, nor can all the gods Call back my triumphs. Life may bring defeat, But death no misery. If my spouse and son Behold me murdered, silently the more I suffer: admiration at my death Shall prove their love." Thus did Pompeius die, Guarding his thoughts. But now Cornelia filled The air with lamentations at the sight; "O, husband, whom my wicked self hath slain!
nan And cast it mangled to the winds of heaven; Yet have I prospered, nor can all the gods Call back my triumphs. Life may bring defeat, But death no misery. If my spouse and son Behold me murdered, silently the more I suffer: admiration at my death Shall prove their love." Thus did Pompeius die, Guarding his thoughts. But now Cornelia filled The air with lamentations at the sight; "O, husband, whom my wicked self hath slain!
nan And cast it mangled to the winds of heaven; Yet have I prospered, nor can all the gods Call back my triumphs. Life may bring defeat, But death no misery. If my spouse and son Behold me murdered, silently the more I suffer: admiration at my death Shall prove their love." Thus did Pompeius die, Guarding his thoughts. But now Cornelia filled The air with lamentations at the sight; "O, husband, whom my wicked self hath slain!
nan And cast it mangled to the winds of heaven; Yet have I prospered, nor can all the gods Call back my triumphs. Life may bring defeat, But death no misery. If my spouse and son Behold me murdered, silently the more I suffer: admiration at my death Shall prove their love." Thus did Pompeius die, Guarding his thoughts. But now Cornelia filled The air with lamentations at the sight; "O, husband, whom my wicked self hath slain!
nan And cast it mangled to the winds of heaven; Yet have I prospered, nor can all the gods Call back my triumphs. Life may bring defeat, But death no misery. If my spouse and son Behold me murdered, silently the more I suffer: admiration at my death Shall prove their love." Thus did Pompeius die, Guarding his thoughts. But now Cornelia filled The air with lamentations at the sight; "O, husband, whom my wicked self hath slain!
nan And cast it mangled to the winds of heaven; Yet have I prospered, nor can all the gods Call back my triumphs. Life may bring defeat, But death no misery. If my spouse and son Behold me murdered, silently the more I suffer: admiration at my death Shall prove their love." Thus did Pompeius die, Guarding his thoughts. But now Cornelia filled The air with lamentations at the sight; "O, husband, whom my wicked self hath slain!
nan And cast it mangled to the winds of heaven; Yet have I prospered, nor can all the gods Call back my triumphs. Life may bring defeat, But death no misery. If my spouse and son Behold me murdered, silently the more I suffer: admiration at my death Shall prove their love." Thus did Pompeius die, Guarding his thoughts. But now Cornelia filled The air with lamentations at the sight; "O, husband, whom my wicked self hath slain!
nan And cast it mangled to the winds of heaven; Yet have I prospered, nor can all the gods Call back my triumphs. Life may bring defeat, But death no misery. If my spouse and son Behold me murdered, silently the more I suffer: admiration at my death Shall prove their love." Thus did Pompeius die, Guarding his thoughts. But now Cornelia filled The air with lamentations at the sight; "O, husband, whom my wicked self hath slain!
nan And cast it mangled to the winds of heaven; Yet have I prospered, nor can all the gods Call back my triumphs. Life may bring defeat, But death no misery. If my spouse and son Behold me murdered, silently the more I suffer: admiration at my death Shall prove their love." Thus did Pompeius die, Guarding his thoughts. But now Cornelia filled The air with lamentations at the sight; "O, husband, whom my wicked self hath slain!
nan That lonely isle apart thy bane hath been And stayed thy coming. Caesar to the NileHas won before us; for what other hand May do such work? But whosoe'er thou art Sent from the gods with power, for Caesar's ire, Or thine own sake, to slay, thou dost not know Where lies the heart of Magnus. Haste and do! Such were his prayer — no other punishment Befits the conquered. Yet let him ere his end See mine, Cornelia's. On me the blame
nan That lonely isle apart thy bane hath been And stayed thy coming. Caesar to the NileHas won before us; for what other hand May do such work? But whosoe'er thou art Sent from the gods with power, for Caesar's ire, Or thine own sake, to slay, thou dost not know Where lies the heart of Magnus. Haste and do! Such were his prayer — no other punishment Befits the conquered. Yet let him ere his end See mine, Cornelia's. On me the blame
nan That lonely isle apart thy bane hath been And stayed thy coming. Caesar to the NileHas won before us; for what other hand May do such work? But whosoe'er thou art Sent from the gods with power, for Caesar's ire, Or thine own sake, to slay, thou dost not know Where lies the heart of Magnus. Haste and do! Such were his prayer — no other punishment Befits the conquered. Yet let him ere his end See mine, Cornelia's. On me the blame

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Subjects of this text:

subject	book bibliographic info
alexander the great,model for viri militares	Manolaraki (2012), Noscendi Nilum Cupido: Imagining Egypt from Lucan to Philostratus, 215
antony (marcus antonius)	Manolaraki (2012), Noscendi Nilum Cupido: Imagining Egypt from Lucan to Philostratus, 215
assimilated in rome,emblematic of egyptian theriomorphism	Manolaraki (2012), Noscendi Nilum Cupido: Imagining Egypt from Lucan to Philostratus, 215
caesar,julius,and pompey	Fertik (2019), The Ruler's House: Contesting Power and Privacy in Julio-Claudian Rome, 35
caesar,julius,mutinous soldiers of	Fertik (2019), The Ruler's House: Contesting Power and Privacy in Julio-Claudian Rome, 35
caesar,julius,soldiers cared for by	Fertik (2019), The Ruler's House: Contesting Power and Privacy in Julio-Claudian Rome, 35
cannae	Roumpou (2023), Ritual and the Poetics of Closure in Flavian Literature. 123
celer,maecius,protégé of isis	Manolaraki (2012), Noscendi Nilum Cupido: Imagining Egypt from Lucan to Philostratus, 215
civil war	Manolaraki (2012), Noscendi Nilum Cupido: Imagining Egypt from Lucan to Philostratus, 215
commercialism and egypt	Manolaraki (2012), Noscendi Nilum Cupido: Imagining Egypt from Lucan to Philostratus, 50
cordus	Roumpou (2023), Ritual and the Poetics of Closure in Flavian Literature. 123
cornelia	Fertik (2019), The Ruler's House: Contesting Power and Privacy in Julio-Claudian Rome, 35; Roumpou (2023), Ritual and the Poetics of Closure in Flavian Literature. 123
cosmopolitanism,flavian	Manolaraki (2012), Noscendi Nilum Cupido: Imagining Egypt from Lucan to Philostratus, 215
cupido,desire for the nile and egypt	Manolaraki (2012), Noscendi Nilum Cupido: Imagining Egypt from Lucan to Philostratus, 215
egypt,prize for viri militares	Manolaraki (2012), Noscendi Nilum Cupido: Imagining Egypt from Lucan to Philostratus, 215
egypt,tourist destination	Manolaraki (2012), Noscendi Nilum Cupido: Imagining Egypt from Lucan to Philostratus, 50, 215
evokes alexander the great	Manolaraki (2012), Noscendi Nilum Cupido: Imagining Egypt from Lucan to Philostratus, 215
evokes roman civil war	Manolaraki (2012), Noscendi Nilum Cupido: Imagining Egypt from Lucan to Philostratus, 215
families,commanders and soldiers as	Fertik (2019), The Ruler's House: Contesting Power and Privacy in Julio-Claudian Rome, 35
families,in lucan	Fertik (2019), The Ruler's House: Contesting Power and Privacy in Julio-Claudian Rome, 35
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
funeral rites/burials	Fertik (2019), The Ruler's House: Contesting Power and Privacy in Julio-Claudian Rome, 35
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
hospes,hospitium	Manolaraki (2012), Noscendi Nilum Cupido: Imagining Egypt from Lucan to Philostratus, 54
imagining,imagination	Manolaraki (2012), Noscendi Nilum Cupido: Imagining Egypt from Lucan to Philostratus, 57
jupiter (also zeus)	Manolaraki (2012), Noscendi Nilum Cupido: Imagining Egypt from Lucan to Philostratus, 50, 54, 57
libya,libyan	Manolaraki (2012), Noscendi Nilum Cupido: Imagining Egypt from Lucan to Philostratus, 50
logos,logoi,and statius	Manolaraki (2012), Noscendi Nilum Cupido: Imagining Egypt from Lucan to Philostratus, 215
lucan bellum civile,commanders and soldiers in	Fertik (2019), The Ruler's House: Contesting Power and Privacy in Julio-Claudian Rome, 35
lucan bellum civile,death in	Fertik (2019), The Ruler's House: Contesting Power and Privacy in Julio-Claudian Rome, 35
lucan bellum civile,families in	Fertik (2019), The Ruler's House: Contesting Power and Privacy in Julio-Claudian Rome, 35
lucan bellum civile,mourning in	Fertik (2019), The Ruler's House: Contesting Power and Privacy in Julio-Claudian Rome, 35
lucan bellum civile	Fertik (2019), The Ruler's House: Contesting Power and Privacy in Julio-Claudian Rome, 35
metanarrative perspectives	Manolaraki (2012), Noscendi Nilum Cupido: Imagining Egypt from Lucan to Philostratus, 54
negative enumeration'	Mcclellan (2019), Paulinus Noster: Self and Symbols in the Letters of Paulinus of Nola, 134
nile,familiar and unfamiliar experiences	Manolaraki (2012), Noscendi Nilum Cupido: Imagining Egypt from Lucan to Philostratus, 215
nile,past and present	Manolaraki (2012), Noscendi Nilum Cupido: Imagining Egypt from Lucan to Philostratus, 215
osiris,egyptian deity	Manolaraki (2012), Noscendi Nilum Cupido: Imagining Egypt from Lucan to Philostratus, 215
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
pelusium,mouth of the nile	Manolaraki (2012), Noscendi Nilum Cupido: Imagining Egypt from Lucan to Philostratus, 57, 215
pharsalus,battle	Mcclellan (2019), Paulinus Noster: Self and Symbols in the Letters of Paulinus of Nola, 134
pliny the elder,and egyptian deities	Manolaraki (2012), Noscendi Nilum Cupido: Imagining Egypt from Lucan to Philostratus, 215
pompey,and caesar	Fertik (2019), The Ruler's House: Contesting Power and Privacy in Julio-Claudian Rome, 35
pompey,assassination of	Fertik (2019), The Ruler's House: Contesting Power and Privacy in Julio-Claudian Rome, 35
pompey,body of	Fertik (2019), The Ruler's House: Contesting Power and Privacy in Julio-Claudian Rome, 35
pompey,death and funeral of	Fertik (2019), The Ruler's House: Contesting Power and Privacy in Julio-Claudian Rome, 35
pompey,funeral of	Roumpou (2023), Ritual and the Poetics of Closure in Flavian Literature. 123
pompey,funeral rites of	Mcclellan (2019), Paulinus Noster: Self and Symbols in the Letters of Paulinus of Nola, 134
pompey,mourning for	Fertik (2019), The Ruler's House: Contesting Power and Privacy in Julio-Claudian Rome, 35
pompey,soldiers as family to	Fertik (2019), The Ruler's House: Contesting Power and Privacy in Julio-Claudian Rome, 35
pompey	Roumpou (2023), Ritual and the Poetics of Closure in Flavian Literature. 123
pompey (gnaeus pompeius magnus),defines egypt and the nile	Manolaraki (2012), Noscendi Nilum Cupido: Imagining Egypt from Lucan to Philostratus, 215
pompey (gnaeus pompeius magnus),escapes the nile in lucan	Manolaraki (2012), Noscendi Nilum Cupido: Imagining Egypt from Lucan to Philostratus, 50, 54, 57
pompey (gnaeus pompeius magnus),in statius silvae	Manolaraki (2012), Noscendi Nilum Cupido: Imagining Egypt from Lucan to Philostratus, 215
prevents caesars murder in lucan	Manolaraki (2012), Noscendi Nilum Cupido: Imagining Egypt from Lucan to Philostratus, 50, 57
revisionism,of egypt and the nile	Manolaraki (2012), Noscendi Nilum Cupido: Imagining Egypt from Lucan to Philostratus, 54, 215
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
rome,in lucan	Fertik (2019), The Ruler's House: Contesting Power and Privacy in Julio-Claudian Rome, 35
rulers and ruled,love between	Fertik (2019), The Ruler's House: Contesting Power and Privacy in Julio-Claudian Rome, 35
scipio (africanus)	Roumpou (2023), Ritual and the Poetics of Closure in Flavian Literature. 123
soldiers and cato the younger,commanders as family of	Fertik (2019), The Ruler's House: Contesting Power and Privacy in Julio-Claudian Rome, 35
soldiers and cato the younger,devotion of to pompey	Fertik (2019), The Ruler's House: Contesting Power and Privacy in Julio-Claudian Rome, 35
spectacle	Roumpou (2023), Ritual and the Poetics of Closure in Flavian Literature. 123
stoicism,roman	Manolaraki (2012), Noscendi Nilum Cupido: Imagining Egypt from Lucan to Philostratus, 57
tombs,of alexander the great	Manolaraki (2012), Noscendi Nilum Cupido: Imagining Egypt from Lucan to Philostratus, 215
tombs,of cleopatra	Manolaraki (2012), Noscendi Nilum Cupido: Imagining Egypt from Lucan to Philostratus, 215
tombs,of pompey	Manolaraki (2012), Noscendi Nilum Cupido: Imagining Egypt from Lucan to Philostratus, 50, 54, 57, 215
wives,in lucan	Fertik (2019), The Ruler's House: Contesting Power and Privacy in Julio-Claudian Rome, 35