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 1   Note           |              PREPARER'S NOTES:~ ~Lucan's "Pharsalia" (or, "Civil
 2   Note           |         chronicles took place.~ ~Lucan was born into a prominent
 3   Note           |         begun. However, Nero and Lucan's friendship evidently soured,
 4   Note           | evidently soured, and in A.D. 65 Lucan joined Calpurnius Piso's
 5   Note           |       conspiracy was discovered, Lucan was given the option of
 6   Note           |         Book III, l. 700-712).~ ~Lucan's "Pharsalia" was left (
 7   Note           |          one knows how many more Lucan planned, but two to six
 8   Note           |          noted that, as history, Lucan's work is far from being
 9   Note           |      Renaissance poets to regard Lucan among the ranks of Homer,
10    Bib           |  ORIGINAL TEXT --~ ~Duff, J.D.: "Lucan: The Civil War" (Loeb Classics
11    Bib           |               Braund, Susan H.: "Lucan: Civil War" (Oxford University
12      I,    38(3) |     generally taken, namely that Lucan was in earnest, appears
13      I,   506(19)|        future life was a part of Lucan's belief, as a state of
14      I,   651(26)|        was probably witnessed by Lucan himself. (See Merivale's "
15    III,   327(22)|    before being so measured, and Lucan's account would then be
16    III,   346(24)|        Asia Minor about 600 B.C. Lucan (line 393) appears to think
17    III,   706(30)|       these were the lines which Lucan recited while bleeding to
18     IV,   216(11)|      nostra" may refer either to Lucan's own time or to the moment
19      V,    72(5) |          with her young brother. Lucan means that Caesar would
20      V,   399(20)|          his rival. In his mouth Lucan puts the speech made at
21      V,   585(29)|         induced to undertake it. Lucan colours it with his wildest
22     VI,   437(23)| generally placed in Arcadia, but Lucan says that Eurotas rises
23    VII,   694(24)|       impossible to suppose that Lucan would have thus singled
24    VII,   975(29)|              Wrongly supposed by Lucan to feed on carrion.~ ~
25   VIII,   348(11)|      would probably have failed. Lucan's sympathies were probably
26   VIII,   990(25)|         interred in a mausoleum. Lucan, it may be supposed, knew
27     IX,   556(14)|   affection ("Odes" iii., 5, 9), Lucan discovers for them a ridiculous
28     IX,  1103(30)|        march; and those given by Lucan are unreliable. The temple
29      X,    78(4) |       Actium, is always named by Lucan when he refers to this battle. (
30      X,   632(26)|        of Cleopatra.~ ~ ~[End of Lucan's "Pharsalia"]~ ~ ~