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| A Dictionary of Greek and Roman biography and mythology (ed. William Smith) | 70 | 70 | Browse | Search |
| Frank Frost Abbott, Commentary on Selected Letters of Cicero | 12 | 12 | Browse | Search |
| J. B. Greenough, G. L. Kittredge, Select Orations of Cicero , Allen and Greenough's Edition. | 6 | 6 | Browse | Search |
| Frank Frost Abbott, Commentary on Selected Letters of Cicero | 4 | 4 | Browse | Search |
| M. Tullius Cicero, Letters to Atticus (ed. L. C. Purser) | 4 | 4 | Browse | Search |
| E. T. Merrill, Commentary on Catullus (ed. E. T. Merrill) | 3 | 3 | Browse | Search |
| J. B. Greenough, G. L. Kittredge, Select Orations of Cicero , Allen and Greenough's Edition. | 3 | 3 | Browse | Search |
| M. Tullius Cicero, De Officiis: index (ed. Walter Miller) | 2 | 2 | Browse | Search |
| M. Tullius Cicero, Epistulae ad Familiares (ed. L. C. Purser) | 2 | 2 | Browse | Search |
| M. Tullius Cicero, Letters to and from Quintus (ed. L. C. Purser) | 1 | 1 | Browse | Search |
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Browsing named entities in M. Annaeus Lucanus, Pharsalia (ed. Sir Edward Ridley). You can also browse the collection for 57 BC or search for 57 BC in all documents.
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Thou land of Egypt, doomed to bear a part
In civil warfare, not unreasoning sang
High Cumae's prophetess, when she forbad This warning of the Sibyl is also alluded to by Cicero in a letter to P. Lentulus, Proconsul of Cilicia. (Mr. Haskins's note. See also Mommsen, vol. iv., p. 305.) It seems to have been discovered in the Sibylline books at the time when it was desired to prevent Pompeius from interfering in the affairs of Egypt, in B.C. 57.
The stream Pelusian to the Roman arms,
And all the banks which in the summer-tide
Are covered by his flood. What grievous curse
Shall I call down upon thee? May the Nile
Turn back his water to his source, thy fields
Want for the winter rain, and all the land
Crumble to desert wastes! We in our fanes
Have known thine Isis and thy hideous gods,
Half hounds, half human, and the drum that bids
To sorrow, and Osiris, whom thy dirge That is, by their weeping for his departure they treated him as a mortal and not as a god. Osiris was the soul of Apis