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A Dictionary of Greek and Roman biography and mythology (ed. William Smith) 124 124 Browse Search
M. Tullius Cicero, Letters to Atticus (ed. L. C. Purser) 25 25 Browse Search
M. Tullius Cicero, Epistulae ad Familiares (ed. L. C. Purser) 25 25 Browse Search
Frank Frost Abbott, Commentary on Selected Letters of Cicero 20 20 Browse Search
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J. B. Greenough, G. L. Kittredge, Select Orations of Cicero , Allen and Greenough's Edition. 2 2 Browse Search
Pliny the Elder, The Natural History (ed. John Bostock, M.D., F.R.S., H.T. Riley, Esq., B.A.) 2 2 Browse Search
M. Annaeus Lucanus, Pharsalia (ed. Sir Edward Ridley) 2 2 Browse Search
Sulpicia, Carmina Omnia (ed. Anne Mahoney) 2 2 Browse Search
E. T. Merrill, Commentary on Catullus (ed. E. T. Merrill) 2 2 Browse Search
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M. Annaeus Lucanus, Pharsalia (ed. Sir Edward Ridley), book 5, line 237 (search)
se? Not so: the heavenly gods ' Stoop not so low; fate has no time to judge ' Your lives and deaths. The fortunes of the world ' Follow heroic souls: for the fit few 'The many live; and you who terrified ' With me the northern and Iberian worlds, ' Would flee when led by Magnus. Strong with me ' Was Labienus:Labienus left Caesar's ranks after the Rubicon was crossed, and joined his rival. In his mouth Lucan puts the speech made at the oracle of Hammon in Book IX. He was slain at Munda, B.C. 45. vile deserter now; ' A homeless exile with his chief preferred. ' Nor were your faith more firm if, neither side 'Espoused, you ceased from arms. Who leaves me once, 'Though not to fight against me with the foe, 'Joins not my ranks again. Surely the gods 'Smile on these arms who for so great a war 'Grant me fresh soldiers. From what heavy load 'Fortune relieves me! for the hands which aimed 'At all, to which the world did not suffice, 'I now disarm, and for myself alone 'Reserve the conflict
M. Annaeus Lucanus, Pharsalia (ed. Sir Edward Ridley), book 10, line 107 (search)
'The form and worship of their deities. 'Expound the sculptures on your ancient fanes: 'Reveal your gods if willing to be known: 'If to th' Athenian sage your fathers taught 'Their mysteries, who worthier than I ' To bear in trust the secrets of the world? ' True, by the rumour of my kinsman's flight ' Here was I drawn; yet also by your fame: ' And even in the midst of war's alarms ' The stars and heavenly spaces have I conned; 'Nor shall Eudoxus' year The calendar introduced by Caesar, in B.C. 45, was founded on the Egyptian or solar year. (See Herodotus, ii., 4.) Eudoxus seems to have dealt with this year and to have corrected it. He is probably alluded to by Virgil, 'Eclogue' iii., 41. excel mine own. ' But though such ardour burns within my breast, ' Such zeal to know the truth, yet my chief wish ' To learn the source of your mysterious flood ' Through ages hidden : give me certain hope ' To see the fount of Nile-and civil war ' I quit for ever.' He spake, and then the priest: