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Common terms and phrasesAcoreus Addison’s Aeneas Aeneid allusion Apollonius Argo Argonautic Argonautica Augustan battle battle of Pharsalus bella bello civili Bellum Civile Braund Brutus Caes Caesar and Pompey Caesarian Cato Cato’s chapter characters Cicero civil wars Colchis commentary contrast Cornelia crime Dante Dante’s dead defeat discussion Domitius episode exemplary exemplum Fantham figure first genre ghost gods Hercules hero historical imperial invidia Latin Leigh libertas literary Lucan Lucan’s Bellum Civile Lucan’s Cato Lucan’s epic Lucan’s poem Lucanian Marcia memory Metamorphoses myth Narducci narrative narrator narrator’s nefas Nero Nero’s Nile Nile’s ofthe Ovid Ovid’s Ovidian Paleit passage Pharsalia Pharsalus philosophical pietas poem’s poet poetic poetry political Pompeian Pompey’s proem Propertius prophecy readers republican rhetorical river Roman Rome Rome’s Scaeva scene scholia Seneca Servius simile soldiers speech Statius Stoic Suetonius suggests suicide Syrtes Tacitus Thebaid theme tion tradition translation Troy Virgil Virgilian virtue Vulteius Bibliographic information |