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Marcus Annaeus Lucanus (November 3, 39 – April 30, 65), better known in English as Lucan, was a Roman epic poet. In A.D. 65, at the age of 25, he was charged with treason against Nero, and was commanded to commit suicide.
Also known as: Lucanus, Marcus Annaeus Lucanus
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Neither side is guiltless if its adversary is appointed judge.
Poverty is shunned and persecuted all over the globe.
The chiefs contend only for their place of burial.
And rejoicing that he has made his way by ruin.
The coward and the courageous alike must die.
The Bards also, who by the praises of their verse transmit to distant ages the fame of heroes slain in battle, poured forth at ease their lays in abundance.
The sins committed by many pass unpunished.
The wounds of civil war are deeply felt.
Death is the middle of a long life.
If great renown is won by true merit, and if virtue is considered in itself and apart from success, then all that we praise in any of our ancestors was Fortune's gift.
When the existence and safety of so many nations depend upon your single life, and so large a part of the world has chosen you for its head, it is cruel of you to court death.
Poverty was scorned,
Such was the character, such the inflexible rule of austere Cato – to observe moderation and hold fast to the limit, to follow nature, to give his life for his country, to believe that he was born to serve the whole world and not himself.
He believed that he was born, not for himself, but for the whole world.
Behold the true father of his country.
Crime levels those whom it pollutes.
Might became the standard of right.
The very ruins have been destroyed.
Idle rumors were also added to well-founded apprehensions.
He rejoices to have made his way by ruin.
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