Pharsalia

The dream of Pompey in the seventh book of the Pharsalia is a very noble piece of writing.

Life and Letters of Lord Macaulay Volume 1 George Otto Trevelyan 1883

"Pharsalia," because it is more deliberately artificial and gratuitously unspontaneous.

Voltaire 2007

And the village claims as a son Thomas May (1595-1650), playwright, translator of Lucan's "Pharsalia," secretary to Parliament and friend of Ben Jonson.

Highways & Byways in Sussex E.V. Lucas

Although the work has been generally known through most of history as the "Pharsalia", modern scholarship tends to agree that this was not Lucan's choice for a title.

Pharsalia; Dramatic Episodes of the Civil Wars 39-65 Lucan

( "Pharsalia," book i.) [7] "Pleraque Gallia duas res industriosissime persequitur, rem militarem et argute loqui."

A Literary History of the English People From the Origins to the Renaissance Jean Jules Jusserand

"Pharsalia," [114: 1] that by the spells of Thessalian witches, there flowed into the obdurate heart a love that entered not there in the course of nature.

Primitive Psycho-Therapy and Quackery Robert Means Lawrence

Lucan's "Pharsalia" (or, "Civil War", as many scholars now prefer to call it) was written approximately a century after the events it chronicles took place.

Pharsalia; Dramatic Episodes of the Civil Wars 39-65 Lucan

This is in part due, we presume, to the free use which he has made of Lucan's "Pharsalia," a work of great value to those who would understand how the grand contest for supremacy was viewed by the beaten party in after times.

The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 13, No. 80, June, 1864 Various

He gave indication of poetical ability in a metrical translation of a part of Lucan's "Pharsalia," which was rewarded with a prize, and received warm encomiums from the professors.

The Modern Scottish Minstrel, Volume III The Songs of Scotland of the Past Half Century Various

Crescimbeni composed tragedies and rime of various kinds, and translated into Italian verse two books of Lucan's "Pharsalia".

The Catholic Encyclopedia, Volume 4: Clandestinity-Diocesan Chancery 1840-1916 1913