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Lucan, Pharsalia, 9.178-9.180

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To feast his eyes, and prove the bloody deed. For whether ravenous birds and Pharian dogsHave torn his corse asunder, or a fire Consumed it, which with stealthy flame arose Upon the shore, I know not. For the parts Devoured by destiny I only blame The gods: I weep the part preserved by men." Thus Sextus spake: and Cnaeus at the words Flamed into fury for his father's shame. "Sailors, launch forth our navies, by your oars

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Forced through the deep though wind and sea oppose: Captains, lead on: for civil strife ne'er gave So great a prize; to lay in earth the limbs Of Magnus, and avenge him with the blood Of that unmanly tyrant. Shall I spare Great Alexander's fort, nor sack the shrine And plunge his body in the tideless marsh? Nor drag Amasis from the Pyramids, And all their ancient Kings, to swim the Nile? Torn from his tomb, that god of all mankind

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1. Homer, Iliad, 22.508-22.515 (8th cent. BCE - 7th cent. BCE)

22.508. /But now, seeing he has lost his dear father, he will suffer ills full many—my Astyanax, whom the Troians call by this name for that thou alone didst save their gates and their high walls. But now by the beaked ships far from thy parents shall writhing worms devour thee, when the dogs have had their fill, as thou liest a naked corpse; 22.509. /But now, seeing he has lost his dear father, he will suffer ills full many—my Astyanax, whom the Troians call by this name for that thou alone didst save their gates and their high walls. But now by the beaked ships far from thy parents shall writhing worms devour thee, when the dogs have had their fill, as thou liest a naked corpse; 22.510. /yet in thy halls lieth raiment, finely-woven and fair, wrought by the hands of women. Howbeit all these things will I verily burn in blazing fire—in no wise a profit unto thee, seeing thou shalt not lie therein, but to be an honour unto thee from the men and women of Troy. 22.511. /yet in thy halls lieth raiment, finely-woven and fair, wrought by the hands of women. Howbeit all these things will I verily burn in blazing fire—in no wise a profit unto thee, seeing thou shalt not lie therein, but to be an honour unto thee from the men and women of Troy. 22.512. /yet in thy halls lieth raiment, finely-woven and fair, wrought by the hands of women. Howbeit all these things will I verily burn in blazing fire—in no wise a profit unto thee, seeing thou shalt not lie therein, but to be an honour unto thee from the men and women of Troy. 22.513. /yet in thy halls lieth raiment, finely-woven and fair, wrought by the hands of women. Howbeit all these things will I verily burn in blazing fire—in no wise a profit unto thee, seeing thou shalt not lie therein, but to be an honour unto thee from the men and women of Troy. 22.514. /yet in thy halls lieth raiment, finely-woven and fair, wrought by the hands of women. Howbeit all these things will I verily burn in blazing fire—in no wise a profit unto thee, seeing thou shalt not lie therein, but to be an honour unto thee from the men and women of Troy. 22.515. /So spake she weeping, and thereto the women added their laments.

2. Cicero, Brutus, 62 (2nd cent. BCE - 1st cent. BCE)

62. et hercules eae quidem eae quidem F2 : hae quidem M : equidem codd. exstant: ipsae enim familiae sua quasi ornamenta ac monumenta servabant et ad usum, si quis eiusdem generis occidisset, et ad memoriam laudum domesticarum et ad inlustrandam nobilitatem suam. Quam- 20 quam his laudationibus historia rerum nostrarum est facta mendosior. Multa enim scripta sunt in eis eis vulg. : his L quae facta non sunt: falsi triumphi, plures consulatus, genera etiam falsa et ad plebem a plebe maluit Lambinus transitiones, cum homines humiliores in alienum eiusdem nominis infunderentur genus; ut si ego me a M'. Tullio esse dicerem, qui patricius cum Servio Sulpicio consul anno x post exactos reges fuit.

3. Cicero, Brutus, 62 (2nd cent. BCE - 1st cent. BCE)

4. Ovid, Metamorphoses, 6.566-6.570 (1st cent. BCE - 1st cent. CE)

5. Lucan, Pharsalia, 6.537, 8.752-8.753, 8.767-8.770, 9.55-9.59, 9.169-9.173, 9.175-9.177, 9.179-9.180 (1st cent. CE - 1st cent. CE)

6. Tacitus, Annals, 3.1-3.2, 3.4, 14.13 (1st cent. CE - 2nd cent. CE)

3.1. Without once pausing in her navigation of the wintry sea, Agrippina reached the island of Corcyra opposite the Calabrian coast. There, frantic with grief and unschooled to suffering, she spent a few days in regaining her composure. Meanwhile, at news of her advent, there was a rush of people to Brundisium, as the nearest and safest landing-place for the voyager. Every intimate friend was present; numbers of military men, each with his record of service under Germanicus; even many strangers from the local towns, some thinking it respectful to the emperor, the majority following their example. The moment her squadron was sighted in the offing, not only the harbour and the points nearest the sea but the city-walls and house-roofs, all posts, indeed, commanding a wide enough prospect, were thronged by a crowd of mourners, who asked each other if they ought to receive her landing in silence, or with some audible expression of feeling. It was not yet clear to them what the occasion required, when little by little the flotilla drew to shore, not with the accustomed eager oarsmanship, but all with an ordered melancholy. When, clasping the fatal urn, she left the ship with her two children, and fixed her eyes on the ground, a single groan arose from the whole multitude; nor could a distinction be traced between the relative and the stranger, the wailings of women or of men; only, the attendants of Agrippina, exhausted by long-drawn sorrow, were less demonstrative than the more recent mourners by whom they were met. 3.2. The Caesar had sent two cohorts of his Guard; with further orders that the magistrates of Calabria, Apulia, and Campania should render the last offices to the memory of his son. And so his ashes were borne on the shoulders of tribunes and centurions: before him the standards went unadorned, the Axes reversed; while, at every colony they passed, the commons in black and the knights in official purple burned raiment, perfumes, and other of the customary funeral tributes, in proportion to the resources of the district. Even the inhabitants of outlying towns met the procession, devoted their victims and altars to the departed spirit, and attested their grief with tears and cries. Drusus came up to Tarracina, with Germanicus' brother Claudius and the children who had been left in the capital. The consuls, Marcus Valerius and Marcus Aurelius (who had already begun their magistracy), the senate, and a considerable part of the people, filled the road, standing in scattered parties and weeping as they pleased: for of adulation there was none, since all men knew that Tiberius was with difficulty dissembling his joy at the death of Germanicus. 3.4. The day on which the remains were consigned to the mausoleum of Augustus was alternately a desolation of silence and a turmoil of laments. The city-streets were full, the Campus Martius alight with torches. There the soldier in harness, the magistrate lacking his insignia, the burgher in his tribe, iterated the cry that "the commonwealth had fallen and hope was dead" too freely and too openly for it to be credible that they remembered their governors. Nothing, however, sank deeper into Tiberius' breast than the kindling of men's enthusiasm for Agrippina â "the glory of her country, the last scion of Augustus, the peerless pattern of ancient virtue." So they styled her; and, turning to heaven and the gods, prayed for the continuance of her issue â "and might they survive their persecutors! 14.13. And yet he dallied in the towns of Campania, anxious and doubtful how to make his entry into Rome. Would he find obedience in the senate? enthusiasm in the crowd? Against his timidity it was urged by every reprobate â and a court more prolific of reprobates the world has not seen â that the name of Agrippina was abhorred and that her death had won him the applause of the nation. Let him go without a qualm and experience on the spot the veneration felt for his position! At the same time, they demanded leave to precede him. They found, indeed, an alacrity which surpassed their promises: the tribes on the way to meet him; the senate in festal dress; troops of wives and of children disposed according to their sex and years, while along his route rose tiers of seats of the type used for viewing a triumph. Then, flushed with pride, victor over the national servility, he made his way to the Capitol, paid his grateful vows, and abandoned himself to all the vices, till now retarded, though scarcely repressed, by some sort of deference to his mother.

7. Cassius Dio, Roman History, 16.2-16.3 (2nd cent. CE - 3rd cent. CE)

Subjects of this text:

subject	book bibliographic info
aeneas	Mcclellan, Paulinus Noster: Self and Symbols in the Letters of Paulinus of Nola (2019) 135
aesacus	Mcclellan, Paulinus Noster: Self and Symbols in the Letters of Paulinus of Nola (2019) 135
agrippina	Roumpou, Ritual and the Poetics of Closure in Flavian Literature (2023) 129
andromache	Mcclellan, Paulinus Noster: Self and Symbols in the Letters of Paulinus of Nola (2019) 135
autocracy, roman	Keith and Edmondson, Roman Literary Cultures: Domestic Politics, Revolutionary Poetics, Civic Spectacle (2016) 171
body/bodily functions	Fertik, The Ruler's House: Contesting Power and Privacy in Julio-Claudian Rome (2019) 37
burial	Roumpou, Ritual and the Poetics of Closure in Flavian Literature (2023) 129
caesar, julius, mutinous soldiers of	Fertik, The Ruler's House: Contesting Power and Privacy in Julio-Claudian Rome (2019) 36, 37
caesar (julius)	Roumpou, Ritual and the Poetics of Closure in Flavian Literature (2023) 129
civil war, roman	Keith and Edmondson, Roman Literary Cultures: Domestic Politics, Revolutionary Poetics, Civic Spectacle (2016) 171
closure	Roumpou, Ritual and the Poetics of Closure in Flavian Literature (2023) 129
cornelia	Fertik, The Ruler's House: Contesting Power and Privacy in Julio-Claudian Rome (2019) 36, 37
domitian	Roumpou, Ritual and the Poetics of Closure in Flavian Literature (2023) 129
elegy/elegiac	Keith and Edmondson, Roman Literary Cultures: Domestic Politics, Revolutionary Poetics, Civic Spectacle (2016) 171
endings, open	Roumpou, Ritual and the Poetics of Closure in Flavian Literature (2023) 129
epic	Keith and Edmondson, Roman Literary Cultures: Domestic Politics, Revolutionary Poetics, Civic Spectacle (2016) 171
families, commanders and soldiers as	Fertik, The Ruler's House: Contesting Power and Privacy in Julio-Claudian Rome (2019) 36, 37
families, in lucan	Fertik, The Ruler's House: Contesting Power and Privacy in Julio-Claudian Rome (2019) 36, 37
fasti triumphales	Roumpou, Ritual and the Poetics of Closure in Flavian Literature (2023) 129
fides	Roumpou, Ritual and the Poetics of Closure in Flavian Literature (2023) 129
funeral	Roumpou, Ritual and the Poetics of Closure in Flavian Literature (2023) 129
funeral rites/burials	Fertik, The Ruler's House: Contesting Power and Privacy in Julio-Claudian Rome (2019) 36, 37
genre criticism	Keith and Edmondson, Roman Literary Cultures: Domestic Politics, Revolutionary Poetics, Civic Spectacle (2016) 171
husbands	Fertik, The Ruler's House: Contesting Power and Privacy in Julio-Claudian Rome (2019) 36
intertextuality	Keith and Edmondson, Roman Literary Cultures: Domestic Politics, Revolutionary Poetics, Civic Spectacle (2016) 171
lamentation	Keith and Edmondson, Roman Literary Cultures: Domestic Politics, Revolutionary Poetics, Civic Spectacle (2016) 171
lucan bellum civile, commanders and soldiers in	Fertik, The Ruler's House: Contesting Power and Privacy in Julio-Claudian Rome (2019) 36, 37
lucan bellum civile, death in	Fertik, The Ruler's House: Contesting Power and Privacy in Julio-Claudian Rome (2019) 36, 37
lucan bellum civile, families in	Fertik, The Ruler's House: Contesting Power and Privacy in Julio-Claudian Rome (2019) 36, 37
lucan bellum civile, mourning in	Fertik, The Ruler's House: Contesting Power and Privacy in Julio-Claudian Rome (2019) 36, 37
lucan bellum civile	Fertik, The Ruler's House: Contesting Power and Privacy in Julio-Claudian Rome (2019) 36, 37
negative enumeration'	Mcclellan, Paulinus Noster: Self and Symbols in the Letters of Paulinus of Nola (2019) 135
nero	Roumpou, Ritual and the Poetics of Closure in Flavian Literature (2023) 129
one-man rule, in lucan	Fertik, The Ruler's House: Contesting Power and Privacy in Julio-Claudian Rome (2019) 37
pharsalus, battle of	Fertik, The Ruler's House: Contesting Power and Privacy in Julio-Claudian Rome (2019) 37
pharsalus	Roumpou, Ritual and the Poetics of Closure in Flavian Literature (2023) 129
philomela	Mcclellan, Paulinus Noster: Self and Symbols in the Letters of Paulinus of Nola (2019) 135
polydorus	Mcclellan, Paulinus Noster: Self and Symbols in the Letters of Paulinus of Nola (2019) 135
pompey, and hector	Mcclellan, Paulinus Noster: Self and Symbols in the Letters of Paulinus of Nola (2019) 135
pompey, body of	Fertik, The Ruler's House: Contesting Power and Privacy in Julio-Claudian Rome (2019) 36
pompey, funeral rites of	Mcclellan, Paulinus Noster: Self and Symbols in the Letters of Paulinus of Nola (2019) 135
pompey, military costume and equipment of	Fertik, The Ruler's House: Contesting Power and Privacy in Julio-Claudian Rome (2019) 36
pompey, mourning for	Fertik, The Ruler's House: Contesting Power and Privacy in Julio-Claudian Rome (2019) 36, 37
procne	Mcclellan, Paulinus Noster: Self and Symbols in the Letters of Paulinus of Nola (2019) 135
ritual, false	Roumpou, Ritual and the Poetics of Closure in Flavian Literature (2023) 129
ritual	Roumpou, Ritual and the Poetics of Closure in Flavian Literature (2023) 129
romulus	Roumpou, Ritual and the Poetics of Closure in Flavian Literature (2023) 129
scipio (africanus)	Roumpou, Ritual and the Poetics of Closure in Flavian Literature (2023) 129
soldiers and cato the younger, commanders as family of	Fertik, The Ruler's House: Contesting Power and Privacy in Julio-Claudian Rome (2019) 36, 37
spectacle	Roumpou, Ritual and the Poetics of Closure in Flavian Literature (2023) 129
trasimene	Roumpou, Ritual and the Poetics of Closure in Flavian Literature (2023) 129
triumph, neros	Roumpou, Ritual and the Poetics of Closure in Flavian Literature (2023) 129
triumph	Roumpou, Ritual and the Poetics of Closure in Flavian Literature (2023) 129
wives, in lucan	Fertik, The Ruler's House: Contesting Power and Privacy in Julio-Claudian Rome (2019) 36