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Orgetorix: Check out this book: "Delphi Complete Works of Lucan (Illustrated) (Delphi Ancient Classics Book 29)" by Marcus Annaeus Lucanus Lucan, J.D. Duff, Edward Ridley
CerebralWisdom: Datos, ne quisquam seruiat, enses. (The sword was given for this, that none need live a slave.) - Marcus Annaeus Lucanus
CerebralWisdom: Datos, ne quisquam seruiat, enses. (The sword was given for this, that none need live a slave.) - Marcus Annaeus Lucanus
CerebralWisdom: Datos, ne quisquam seruiat, enses. (The sword was given for this, that none need live a slave.) - Marcus Annaeus Lucanus
blazuiuu: Nobody ever chooses the already unfortunate as objects of his loyal friendship. -Marcus Annaeus Lucanus
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Inde_Fatigable: Datos, ne quisquam seruiat, enses. (The sword was given for this, that none need live a slave) - Marcus Annaeus Lucanus
wikishoutouts: Shout out to all the Lucanuses! Genus of beetles, Marcus Annaeus Lucanus Roman poet, and Friedrich von Lucanus ornithologist.
motivazer: Datos, ne quisquam seruiat, enses. The sword was given for this, that none need live a slave. - Marcus Annaeus Lucanus
NathanFrancis__: "Great fear is concealed under daring."
Poem:
CerebralWisdom: Datos, ne quisquam seruiat, enses. (The sword was given for this, that none need live a slave.) - Marcus Annaeus Lucanus
CerebralWisdom: Datos, ne quisquam seruiat, enses. (The sword was given for this, that none need live a slave.) - Marcus Annaeus Lucanus
CerebralWisdom: Datos, ne quisquam seruiat, enses. (The sword was given for this, that none need live a slave.) - Marcus Annaeus Lucanus
CerebralWisdom: Datos, ne quisquam seruiat, enses. (The sword was given for this, that none need live a slave.) - Marcus Annaeus Lucanus
CerebralWisdom: Datos, ne quisquam seruiat, enses. (The sword was given for this, that none need live a slave.) - Marcus Annaeus Lucanus
floresdeanda: "Who lacks an urn, is covered by the sky."
Marcus Annaeus Lucanus
CerebralWisdom: Datos, ne quisquam seruiat, enses. (The sword was given for this, that none need live a slave.) - Marcus Annaeus Lucanus
CerebralWisdom: Datos, ne quisquam seruiat, enses. (The sword was given for this, that none need live a slave.) - Marcus Annaeus Lucanus
CerebralWisdom: Datos, ne quisquam seruiat, enses. (The sword was given for this, that none need live a slave.) - Marcus Annaeus Lucanus
FeliixTweets: "And they are ignorant that the purpose of the sword is to save every man from slavery." -- Marcus Annaeus Lucanus (A.D. 39-65)
CerebralWisdom: Datos, ne quisquam seruiat, enses. (The sword was given for this, that none need live a slave.) - Marcus Annaeus Lucanus
4yourcountry: "And they are ignorant that the purpose of the sword is to save every man from slavery." Marcus Annaeus Lucanus (A.D. 39-65) Roman poet
CerebralWisdom: Datos, ne quisquam seruiat, enses. (The sword was given for this, that none need live a slave.) - Marcus Annaeus Lucanus
protomonk: "The liberty of the people, whom power restrains unduly, perishes through liberty."
- Marcus Annaeus Lucanus, Pharsalia 3.146
CerebralWisdom: Datos, ne quisquam seruiat, enses. (The sword was given for this, that none need live a slave.) - Marcus Annaeus Lucanus
greymatter46: Poet: Marcus Annaeus Lucanus-(Lucan)(39-65 CE)
Despite a short life & an un-trained poet still shares regard with the likes of Ovid, Virgil, Horace. Known for "Pharsalia". Unlike others he wrote in period not of deities & mythology. Interesting poem & death-Nero
CerebralWisdom: Datos, ne quisquam seruiat, enses. (The sword was given for this, that none need live a slave.) - Marcus Annaeus Lucanus
ingo_don: —
Marcus Annaeus Lucanus
(3/11/39 AD - 30/4/65 AD)
roman poet, born in Córdoba in Hispania Baetica.
He is one of the outstanding figures of the Imperial Latin period, known in for his epic Pharsalia.
His youth & speed of composition set him apart from other poets.
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CerebralWisdom: Datos, ne quisquam seruiat, enses. (The sword was given for this, that none need live a slave.) - Marcus Annaeus Lucanus
CerebralWisdom: Datos, ne quisquam seruiat, enses. (The sword was given for this, that none need live a slave.) - Marcus Annaeus Lucanus
JG_Bulloon: Things that make me go oof late at night:
Realizing that Marcus Annaeus Lucanus (Lucan) had enjoyed anninvolved political career and wrote most of an epic poem on the Roman Civil War before he died at the age of 25.
That's only two years older than I am now...
CerebralWisdom: Datos, ne quisquam seruiat, enses. (The sword was given for this, that none need live a slave.) - Marcus Annaeus Lucanus
Open__Capital: “...Datos, ne quisquam seruiat, enses.”
— Marcus Annaeus Lucanus
(The sword was given for this, that none need live a slave.)
CerebralWisdom: Datos, ne quisquam seruiat, enses. (The sword was given for this, that none need live a slave.) - Marcus Annaeus Lucanus
CerebralWisdom: Datos, ne quisquam seruiat, enses. (The sword was given for this, that none need live a slave.) - Marcus Annaeus Lucanus
CerebralWisdom: Datos, ne quisquam seruiat, enses. (The sword was given for this, that none need live a slave.) - Marcus Annaeus Lucanus
CerebralWisdom: Datos, ne quisquam seruiat, enses. (The sword was given for this, that none need live a slave.) - Marcus Annaeus Lucanus
imaginativecons: The Crossing of the Rubicon (poem by Marcus Annaeus Lucanus)
WinstonElliott3: The Crossing of the Rubicon (poem by Marcus Annaeus Lucanus)
CerebralWisdom: Datos, ne quisquam seruiat, enses. (The sword was given for this, that none need live a slave.) - Marcus Annaeus Lucanus
CerebralWisdom: Datos, ne quisquam seruiat, enses. (The sword was given for this, that none need live a slave.) - Marcus Annaeus Lucanus
DARG58060306: Bitcoin was given for this, that none need live a slave.
- Marcus Annaeus Lucanus on BTC
CerebralWisdom: Datos, ne quisquam seruiat, enses. (The sword was given for this, that none need live a slave.) - Marcus Annaeus Lucanus
CerebralWisdom: Datos, ne quisquam seruiat, enses. (The sword was given for this, that none need live a slave.) - Marcus Annaeus Lucanus
CerebralWisdom: Datos, ne quisquam seruiat, enses. (The sword was given for this, that none need live a slave.) - Marcus Annaeus Lucanus
Inde_Fatigable: Datos, ne quisquam seruiat, enses. (The sword was given for this, that none need live a slave) - Marcus Annaeus Lucanus
CerebralWisdom: Datos, ne quisquam seruiat, enses. (The sword was given for this, that none need live a slave.) - Marcus Annaeus Lucanus
Inde_Fatigable: Datos, ne quisquam seruiat, enses. (The sword was given for this, that none need live a slave) - Marcus Annaeus Lucanus
auspea: Marked as to-read: Pharsalia by Marcus Annaeus Lucanus
ptully262: "Great things come crashing down upon themselves – such is the limit of growth ordained by heaven for success." Marcus Annaeus Lucanus (Lucan), b. 39 CE.
ingo_don: —
Marcus Annaeus Lucanus
(3/11/39 AD-30/4/65 AD)
roman poet,
born in Córdoba in Hispania Baetica.
He is one of the outstanding figures of the Imperial Latin period, known in for his epic Pharsalia. His youth and speed of composition set him apart from other poets.
—
habeshador: 'Vain is the ancient faith that Ethiop snows
Send Nile abundant forth upon the lands.
Those mountains know nor northern wind nor star
.
[An Excerpt]
Pharsalia - Book X Caesar In Egypt
by Marcus Annaeus Lucanus
Translated Into Blank Verse by Edward Ridley
Inde_Fatigable: ALSO: Datos, ne quisquam seruiat, enses. (The sword was given for this, that none need live a slave) - Marcus Annaeus Lucanus
CerebralWisdom: Datos, ne quisquam seruiat, enses. (The sword was given for this, that none need live a slave.) - Marcus Annaeus Lucanus
CerebralWisdom: Datos, ne quisquam seruiat, enses. (The sword was given for this, that none need live a slave.) - Marcus Annaeus Lucanus
madmj1m: I was reading a book that referred to Lucan so I looked him up & found this which astounded me.
Marcus Annaeus Lucanus (3 November 39 AD – 30 April 65 AD)
CerebralWisdom: Datos, ne quisquam seruiat, enses. (The sword was given for this, that none need live a slave.) - Marcus Annaeus Lucanus
CerebralWisdom: Datos, ne quisquam seruiat, enses. (The sword was given for this, that none need live a slave.) - Marcus Annaeus Lucanus
CerebralWisdom: Datos, ne quisquam seruiat, enses. (The sword was given for this, that none need live a slave.) - Marcus Annaeus Lucanus
CerebralWisdom: Datos, ne quisquam seruiat, enses. (The sword was given for this, that none need live a slave.) - Marcus Annaeus Lucanus
CerebralWisdom: Datos, ne quisquam seruiat, enses. (The sword was given for this, that none need live a slave.) - Marcus Annaeus Lucanus
twitchy56209254: Datos, ne quisquam seruiat, enses.
(The sword was given for this, that none need live a slave.)
Marcus Annaeus Lucanus
imaginativecons: The Crossing of the Rubicon (poem by Marcus Annaeus Lucanus)
WinstonElliott3: The Crossing of the Rubicon (poem by Marcus Annaeus Lucanus)
CerebralWisdom: Datos, ne quisquam seruiat, enses. (The sword was given for this, that none need live a slave.) - Marcus Annaeus Lucanus
CerebralWisdom: Datos, ne quisquam seruiat, enses. (The sword was given for this, that none need live a slave.) - Marcus Annaeus Lucanus
Robkearney1981: Datos, ne quisquam seruiat, enses. (The sword was given for this, that none need live a slave).
- Marcus Annaeus Lucanus
CerebralWisdom: Datos, ne quisquam seruiat, enses. (The sword was given for this, that none need live a slave.) - Marcus Annaeus Lucanus
CerebralWisdom: Datos, ne quisquam seruiat, enses. (The sword was given for this, that none need live a slave.) - Marcus Annaeus Lucanus
CerebralWisdom: Datos, ne quisquam seruiat, enses. (The sword was given for this, that none need live a slave.) - Marcus Annaeus Lucanus
PipRLagenta: "What though the Moor the basilisk hath slain,
And pinned him lifeless to the sandy plain,
Up through the spear the subtle venom flies,
The hand imbibes it, and the victor dies."
--Lucan
A.K.A. "Marcus Annaeus Lucanus"
(3 November 39 AD – 30 April 65 AD)
CerebralWisdom: Datos, ne quisquam seruiat, enses. (The sword was given for this, that none need live a slave.) - Marcus Annaeus Lucanus
CerebralWisdom: Datos, ne quisquam seruiat, enses. (The sword was given for this, that none need live a slave.) - Marcus Annaeus Lucanus
PetloverHermine: 30Apr/65CE: Roman poet Lucan (Marcus Annaeus Lucanus) is forced to slice open his veins after he’s caught conspiring against Emperor Nero. He’s 25.
CerebralWisdom: Datos, ne quisquam seruiat, enses. (The sword was given for this, that none need live a slave.) - Marcus Annaeus Lucanus
CerebralWisdom: Datos, ne quisquam seruiat, enses. (The sword was given for this, that none need live a slave.) - Marcus Annaeus Lucanus
CerebralWisdom: Datos, ne quisquam seruiat, enses. (The sword was given for this, that none need live a slave.) - Marcus Annaeus Lucanus
ChristinaLeyv11: " Poverty fled, she who gives birth to virile men. "Marcus Annaeus Lucanus" "
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GrannyMooninVA: Now sank the sun to rest; the evening star
Shone on the darkening heaven, and the Moon
Reigned with her paler light.
- Marcus Annaeus Lucanus, "Pharsalia," Book V.
CerebralWisdom: Datos, ne quisquam seruiat, enses. (The sword was given for this, that none need live a slave.) - Marcus Annaeus Lucanus
CerebralWisdom: Datos, ne quisquam seruiat, enses. (The sword was given for this, that none need live a slave.) - Marcus Annaeus Lucanus
CerebralWisdom: Datos, ne quisquam seruiat, enses. (The sword was given for this, that none need live a slave.) - Marcus Annaeus Lucanus
FamousMindQuote: Datos, ne quisquam seruiat, enses. (The sword was given for this, that none need live a slave.) - Marcus Annaeus Lucanus
CerebralWisdom: Datos, ne quisquam seruiat, enses. (The sword was given for this, that none need live a slave.) - Marcus Annaeus Lucanus
CerebralWisdom: Datos, ne quisquam seruiat, enses. (The sword was given for this, that none need live a slave.) - Marcus Annaeus Lucanus
CerebralWisdom: Datos, ne quisquam seruiat, enses. (The sword was given for this, that none need live a slave.) - Marcus Annaeus Lucanus
CerebralWisdom: Datos, ne quisquam seruiat, enses. (The sword was given for this, that none need live a slave.) - Marcus Annaeus Lucanus
WinstonElliott3: The Crossing of the Rubicon (poem by Marcus Annaeus Lucanus)
ghostsofcadiz: Deep are the wounds that civil strife inflicts - Marcus Annaeus Lucanus
Alan_Ui_Niall: The gods conceal from men the happiness of death, that they may endure life.
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Marcus Annaeus Lucanus (3 November 39 AD – 30 April 65 AD), better known in English as Lucan , was a Roman poet, born in Corduba in Hispania Baetica. He is regarded as one of the outstanding figures of the Imperial Latin period...
WinstonElliott3: The Crossing of the Rubicon (poem by Marcus Annaeus Lucanus)
imaginativecons: The Crossing of the Rubicon (poem by Marcus Annaeus Lucanus)
CatholicPods: Born today: Marcus Annaeus Lucanus (Lucan) (39-65). Roman poet, friend and enemy of Nero, composer of the epic Pharsalia. "The winning cause pleased the gods, but the lost cause pleased Cato."
CerebralWisdom: Datos, ne quisquam seruiat, enses. (The sword was given for this, that none need live a slave.) - Marcus Annaeus Lucanus
CerebralWisdom: Datos, ne quisquam seruiat, enses. (The sword was given for this, that none need live a slave.) - Marcus Annaeus Lucanus
CerebralWisdom: Datos, ne quisquam seruiat, enses. (The sword was given for this, that none need live a slave.) - Marcus Annaeus Lucanus
Torsten64702214: Furor Teutonicus. Bellum civile:
"In battle they cheered because they hoped to be able to leave life in a glorious and happy way."
"They attacked with the speed and violence of a firestorm: daring and fearless, with animal voices and terrible screams."
- Marcus Annaeus Lucanus
CerebralWisdom: Datos, ne quisquam seruiat, enses. (The sword was given for this, that none need live a slave.) - Marcus Annaeus Lucanus
CerebralWisdom: Datos, ne quisquam seruiat, enses. (The sword was given for this, that none need live a slave.) - Marcus Annaeus Lucanus
GrannyMooninVA: Now sank the sun to rest; the evening star
Shone on the darkening heaven, and the Moon
Reigned with her paler light.
- Marcus Annaeus Lucanus, "Pharsalia," Book V.
