Marcus Annaeus Lucanus Poems

  • 1.
    Thus had the smiles of Fortune and her frowns
    Brought either chief to Macedonian shores
    Still equal to his foe. From cooler skies
    Sank Atlas' daughters down, and Haemus' slopes
    ...
  • 2.
    This was made plain the anger of the gods;
    The universe gave signs Nature reversed
    In monstrous tumult fraught with prodigies
    Her laws, and prescient spake the coming guilt.
    ...
  • 3.
    Ne'er to the summons of the Eternal laws
    More slowly Titan rose, nor drave his steeds,
    Forced by the sky revolving, up the heaven,
    With gloomier presage; wishing to endure
    ...
  • 4.
    With canvas yielding to the western wind
    The navy sailed the deep, and every eye
    Gazed on Ionian billows. But the chief
    Turned not his vision from his native shore
    ...
  • 5.
    The Crossing of the Rubicon

    Wars worse than civil on Emathian plains,
    And crime let loose we sing; how Rome's high race
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Total 5 Poems by Marcus Annaeus Lucanus

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