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.
Подобные авторы
Гай Валерий Флакк
римский поэт и писатель
Клавдий Клавдиан11
позднеантичный поэт
Децим Юний Ювенал32
римский поэт-сатирик
Федр13
римский баснописец
Марк Валерий Марциал11
римский поэт-эпиграмматист
Цитаты Марк Анней Лукан
„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).
„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).
„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).
„The hungry slave
Brings danger to his master, not himself.“
— Marcus Annaeus Lucanus
Book III, line 152 (tr. E. Ridley).
„The mere shadow of a mighty name he stood.“
— Marcus Annaeus Lucanus
Book I, line 135 (tr. J. D. Duff); of Pompey the Great.
„The sin of thousands always goes unpunished.“
— Marcus Annaeus Lucanus
Book V, line 260 (tr. J. D. Duff).
„Best gift of all
The knowledge how to die; next, death compelled.“
— Marcus Annaeus Lucanus
Book IX, line 211 (tr. E. Ridley).
„Legality conferred on crime.“
— Marcus Annaeus Lucanus
Book I, line 2 (tr. J. D. Duff).
„Discordant concord.“
— Marcus Annaeus Lucanus
Book I, line 98 (tr. Matthew Fox).
„Wars worse than civil.“
— Marcus Annaeus Lucanus
Book I, line 1 (tr. Christopher Marlowe).
„A name illustrious and revered by nations.“
— Marcus Annaeus Lucanus
Book IX, line 202 (tr. H. T. Riley).
