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Lucan, Pharsalia, 8.796-8.800
nan Might know the features of the hero slain, Seized by the locks, the dread of kings, which waved Upon his stately front, on Pharian pike The head was lifted; while almost the life Gave to the tongue its accents, and the eyes Were yet scarce glazed: that head at whose command Was peace or war, that tongue whose eloquent tones Would move assemblies, and that noble brow On which were showered the rewards of Rome. Nor to the tyrant did the sight suffice
nan Might know the features of the hero slain, Seized by the locks, the dread of kings, which waved Upon his stately front, on Pharian pike The head was lifted; while almost the life Gave to the tongue its accents, and the eyes Were yet scarce glazed: that head at whose command Was peace or war, that tongue whose eloquent tones Would move assemblies, and that noble brow On which were showered the rewards of Rome. Nor to the tyrant did the sight suffice
nan Might know the features of the hero slain, Seized by the locks, the dread of kings, which waved Upon his stately front, on Pharian pike The head was lifted; while almost the life Gave to the tongue its accents, and the eyes Were yet scarce glazed: that head at whose command Was peace or war, that tongue whose eloquent tones Would move assemblies, and that noble brow On which were showered the rewards of Rome. Nor to the tyrant did the sight suffice
nan Might know the features of the hero slain, Seized by the locks, the dread of kings, which waved Upon his stately front, on Pharian pike The head was lifted; while almost the life Gave to the tongue its accents, and the eyes Were yet scarce glazed: that head at whose command Was peace or war, that tongue whose eloquent tones Would move assemblies, and that noble brow On which were showered the rewards of Rome. Nor to the tyrant did the sight suffice
nan To prove the murder done. The perishing flesh, The tissues, and the brain he bids remove By art nefarious: the shrivelled skin Draws tight upon the bone; and poisonous juice Gives to the face its lineaments in death. Last of thy race, thou base degenerate boy, About to perish soon, and yield the throne To thine incestuous sister; while the Prince From Macedon here in consecrated vault Now rests, and ashes of the kings are closed

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1. Lucan, Pharsalia, 8.663-8.691, 8.710-8.711, 8.729-8.742, 8.746-8.751, 8.759-8.793, 8.797-8.800, 8.804-8.815 (1st cent. CE - 1st cent. CE)
2. Plutarch, Pompey, 80 (1st cent. CE - 2nd cent. CE)

Subjects of this text:

subject	book bibliographic info
antiphony	Joseph, Thunder and Lament: Lucan on the Beginnings and Ends of Epic (2022) 237, 238
autocracy, roman	Keith and Edmondson, Roman Literary Cultures: Domestic Politics, Revolutionary Poetics, Civic Spectacle (2016) 173
civil war, roman	Keith and Edmondson, Roman Literary Cultures: Domestic Politics, Revolutionary Poetics, Civic Spectacle (2016) 173
cordus	Joseph, Thunder and Lament: Lucan on the Beginnings and Ends of Epic (2022) 237, 238
elegy/elegiac	Keith and Edmondson, Roman Literary Cultures: Domestic Politics, Revolutionary Poetics, Civic Spectacle (2016) 173
epic	Keith and Edmondson, Roman Literary Cultures: Domestic Politics, Revolutionary Poetics, Civic Spectacle (2016) 173
genre criticism	Keith and Edmondson, Roman Literary Cultures: Domestic Politics, Revolutionary Poetics, Civic Spectacle (2016) 173
homer, lucans use of	Joseph, Thunder and Lament: Lucan on the Beginnings and Ends of Epic (2022) 237, 238
homer, model / anti-model for lucan	Joseph, Thunder and Lament: Lucan on the Beginnings and Ends of Epic (2022) 237, 238
homer, praise in	Joseph, Thunder and Lament: Lucan on the Beginnings and Ends of Epic (2022) 237
intertextuality	Keith and Edmondson, Roman Literary Cultures: Domestic Politics, Revolutionary Poetics, Civic Spectacle (2016) 173
lamentation'	Keith and Edmondson, Roman Literary Cultures: Domestic Politics, Revolutionary Poetics, Civic Spectacle (2016) 173
narrator	Joseph, Thunder and Lament: Lucan on the Beginnings and Ends of Epic (2022) 237, 238
patroclus	Joseph, Thunder and Lament: Lucan on the Beginnings and Ends of Epic (2022) 238
pompey, as object of lament	Joseph, Thunder and Lament: Lucan on the Beginnings and Ends of Epic (2022) 237, 238