Lucan

[ loo-kuhn ]

noun

1. Marcus Annaeus Lucanus, a.d. 39–65, Roman poet, born in Spain.

Lucan

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/ ˈluːkən /

noun

1. Lucan3965MRomanWRITING: poet Latin name Marcus Annaeus Lucanus. 39–65 ad , Roman poet. His epic poem Pharsalia describes the civil war between Caesar and Pompey

Lucan

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/ ˈluːkən /

adjective

1. of or relating to St Luke or St Luke's gospel

Example Sentences

“I regard not finding Lord Lucan as my most spectacular success in journalism,” said Gibbs.

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Aspinall and Goldsmith definitely had the means and the motive to help Lucan flee.

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Lady Lucan has recently restated her belief that he threw himself off the cross-channel ferry to France.

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All these circumstances seem to have driven Lucan over the edge.

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She claimed that on both visits Lucan observed his children but did not make contact with them.

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And to soothe the sick King, Sir Lucan said he would go to see.

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Sir Lucan hastened back, and told the King what he had seen.

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Our author, living in the time of Nero, was contemporary and friend to the noble poet Lucan.

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Lucan has not spared him in the poem of his Pharsalia; for his very compliment looked asquint, as well as Nero.

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Lucan relates, that an Oriental nation in alliance with Pompey used the juice of the cane as a common drink.

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