Frasi di Marco Anneo Lucano
Marco Anneo Lucano
Data di nascita: 3. Novembre 39 d.C.
Data di morte: 30. Aprile 65 d.C.
Altri nomi: Lucan
Marco Anneo Lucano è stato un poeta romano.
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Frasi Marco Anneo Lucano
„Giove è tutto quello che vedi ed ogni movimento che compi.“
— Marco Anneo Lucano
Pharsalia, IX, 580
Iuppiter est, quodcumque vides, quodcumque moveris.
„La causa del vincitore piacque agli dei, quella del vinto a Catone.“
— Marco Anneo Lucano
Pharsalia, I, 128
Victrix causa deis placuit, sed victa Catoni.
„But silenced now are laws in war“
— Marcus Annaeus Lucanus
Pharsalia, Context: But silenced now are laws in war: we driven from our homes; yet is our exile willing.
Book I, line 277 (tr. E. Ridley).
„But Caesar had more than a mere name and military reputation: his energy could never rest, and his one disgrace was to conquer without war.“
— Marcus Annaeus Lucanus
Pharsalia, Sed non in Caesare tantum
nomen erat nec fama ducis, sed nescia virtus
stare loco, solusque pudor non vincere bello.
Book I, line 143 (tr. J. D. Duff).
„All that we see is God; every motion we make is God also.“
— Marcus Annaeus Lucanus
Pharsalia, Context: Has he any dwelling-place save earth and sea, the air of heaven and virtuous hearts? Why seek we further for deities? All that we see is God; every motion we make is God also.
Book IX, line 578 (tr. J. D. Duff).
„No—foreign swords could never pierce so deeply.
The deadliest wounds are dealt by citizen hands.“
— Marcus Annaeus Lucanus
Pharsalia, Nulli penitus descendere ferro
contigit; alta sedent civilis volnera dextrae.
Book I, line 31 (tr. Brian Walters).