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Lucan, Pharsalia, 8.798-8.799
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

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

3 results
1. Ovid, Metamorphoses, 12.612-12.613 (1st cent. BCE - missingth cent. CE)
2. Lucan, Pharsalia, 8.729-8.742, 8.746-8.751, 8.759-8.793, 8.799, 8.804-8.815, 8.858-8.859 (1st cent. CE - 1st cent. CE)
3. Plutarch, Pompey, 80 (1st cent. CE - 2nd cent. CE)

Subjects of this text:

subject	book bibliographic info
achilles,and pompey	Mcclellan (2019), Paulinus Noster: Self and Symbols in the Letters of Paulinus of Nola, 124
antiphony	Joseph (2022), Thunder and Lament: Lucan on the Beginnings and Ends of Epic, 237, 238
cordus	Joseph (2022), Thunder and Lament: Lucan on the Beginnings and Ends of Epic, 237, 238
homer,lucans use of	Joseph (2022), Thunder and Lament: Lucan on the Beginnings and Ends of Epic, 237, 238
homer,model / anti-model for lucan	Joseph (2022), Thunder and Lament: Lucan on the Beginnings and Ends of Epic, 237, 238
homer,praise in	Joseph (2022), Thunder and Lament: Lucan on the Beginnings and Ends of Epic, 237
narrator	Joseph (2022), Thunder and Lament: Lucan on the Beginnings and Ends of Epic, 237, 238
patroclus	Joseph (2022), Thunder and Lament: Lucan on the Beginnings and Ends of Epic, 238
pharsalus,battle	Mcclellan (2019), Paulinus Noster: Self and Symbols in the Letters of Paulinus of Nola, 124
pompey,and achilles	Mcclellan (2019), Paulinus Noster: Self and Symbols in the Letters of Paulinus of Nola, 124
pompey,as object of lament	Joseph (2022), Thunder and Lament: Lucan on the Beginnings and Ends of Epic, 237, 238
pompey,funeral rites of'	Mcclellan (2019), Paulinus Noster: Self and Symbols in the Letters of Paulinus of Nola, 124