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... battle of Pharsalus in Book 7. It treats the civil war between Caesar and Pompey in ten books - the last unfinished , ending abruptly at 10.546 . Book 1 and part of 2 are intro- ductory ; then he describes Pompey's flight from Italy ...
... battle of Pharsalus in Book 7. It treats the civil war between Caesar and Pompey in ten books - the last unfinished , ending abruptly at 10.546 . Book 1 and part of 2 are intro- ductory ; then he describes Pompey's flight from Italy ...
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... Battles parti- - cularly brought out this tendency in him , as they did too in Statius . Ovid may have been an important in ... battle fought during the siege of Massilia ( 3.533-762 ) Lucan piles absurd horror upon absurd horror.10 The ...
... Battles parti- - cularly brought out this tendency in him , as they did too in Statius . Ovid may have been an important in ... battle fought during the siege of Massilia ( 3.533-762 ) Lucan piles absurd horror upon absurd horror.10 The ...
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... battle , fought at Pharsalus in 48 B.C. saturentur : at the battle of Thapsus ( 46 B.C. ) in modern Tunisia which was Hannibal's own country ( around Carthage ) . ultima ... proelia : plural for singular ; the last battle of the Civil ...
... battle , fought at Pharsalus in 48 B.C. saturentur : at the battle of Thapsus ( 46 B.C. ) in modern Tunisia which was Hannibal's own country ( around Carthage ) . ultima ... proelia : plural for singular ; the last battle of the Civil ...
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Achilles adjective Aeetes Aeneas Aeneid aequora aether amor Amyclas Apollo Apollonius Appendix passage Argonautica Argonauts arma atque battle bella Book caeli caelo Caesar caput Carmentis cedetur chariot Classical Colchis cura dative death Delphic deum deus divine Dorceu Ennius etiam Fama fata fera fluctus Fortuna funeral Georgics gods Greek haec haud heaven Homer iamque Iliad inter ipsa ipse Jason Latin epic latus litora Lucan manu Medea medio Metamorphoses metus mihi moralising Nero nubila nunc omni orbe Ovid pectore Phrixus poem poet's poetic poetry Pompey Pompey's prophetess pyre quae quam quis quoque Roman Rome scene Scipio Seneca Sextus Pompeius sidera siege of Massilia Silius Italicus Silvae Silver Age Silver epic poets Silver Latin similes Statius storm subitus tamen tantum terrae Thebaid tibi umbra unda underworld Valerius Flaccus Virgil Virgil Aeneid Virgilian viro virum volucres vultus younger Seneca