Pharsalia
Americannoun
Other Word Forms
- Pharsalian adjective
Example Sentences
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Ten days later when he went to San Diego to deliver a paper on the role of Julius Caesar in the epic poem “Pharsalia” by Lucan, she sent a note and flowers to the hotel.
From New York Times
He celebrated the war of Gildo and the victories of Stilicho over the Goths in verses equal to the "Pharsalia;" and his invectives against Eutropius and Rufinus, in defense of Stilicho his patron, are still considered masterpieces.
From Project Gutenberg
After the battle of Pharsalia Caesar made him procurator and a Roman citizen.
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The courage of Lucan failed signally under torture, and the flattery which he bestowed upon Nero, in his “Pharsalia,” ranks with the Epigrams of Martial as probably the extreme limit of sycophancy to which Roman literature descended.
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A curious passage on this at the beginning of Lucan's Pharsalia, vii.
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