Марк Анней Лукан цитаты
Марк Анней Лукан
Дата рождения: 3. Ноябрь 39 н.э.
Дата смерти: 30. Апрель 65 н.э.
Другие имена: Lucan
О фельдмаршале см. Джордж Чарльз Бингхэм, 3-й граф Лукан.
Марк Анней Лукан — римский поэт, значительнейший римский эпик после Вергилия.
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„But silenced now are laws in war“
— Marcus Annaeus Lucanus
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).
„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
Context: 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.
Book I, line 143 (tr. J. D. Duff).
„All that we see is God; every motion we make is God also.“
— Marcus Annaeus Lucanus
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).
„Behold the true father of his country.“
— Marcus Annaeus Lucanus
Book IX, line 601 (tr. J. D. Duff).
„Boldness is a mask for fear, however great.“
— Marcus Annaeus Lucanus
Book IV, line 702 (tr. J. D. Duff).
„The very ruins have been destroyed.“
— Marcus Annaeus Lucanus
Book IX, line 969 (tr. J. D. Duff).
„The hungry slave
Brings danger to his master, not himself.“
— Marcus Annaeus Lucanus
Book III, line 152 (tr. E. Ridley).
„That which you weep for is what you really loved.“
— Marcus Annaeus Lucanus
Book VIII, line 85 (tr. J. D. Duff).
„The mere shadow of a mighty name he stood.“
— Marcus Annaeus Lucanus
Book I, line 135 (tr. J. D. Duff); of Pompey the Great.
„How ready are the gods to grant supremacy to men, and how unready to maintain it!“
— Marcus Annaeus Lucanus
Book I, line 510 (tr. J. D. Duff).
„So true it is that love of money alone is incapable of dreading death by the sword.“
— Marcus Annaeus Lucanus
Book III, line 118 (tr. J. D. Duff).