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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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But silenced now are laws in war.
Is there any other seat of the Divinity than the earth, sea, air, the heavens, and virtuous minds? why do we seek God elsewhere? He is whatever you see; he is wherever you move.
But many are driven to utmost peril by the mere dread of coming danger. He is truly brave, who is both quick to endure the ordeal, if it be close and pressing, and willing also to let it wait.
Which had the fairer pretext for warfare, we may not know: each has high authority to support him; for, if the victor had the gods on his side, the vanquished had Cato.
It was the chain of jealous fate, and the speedy fall which no eminence can escape; it was the grievous collapse of excessive weight, and Rome unable to support her own greatness.
Victrix causa deis placuit sed victa Catoni. If the victor had the gods on his side, the vanquished had Cato.
[She] is not permitted to reveal as much as she is suffered to know.
Each man makes his own shipwreck.
Prayed for so oft, the dawn of fight is come.
By audacity, great fears are concealed.
He stands the shadow of a mighty name.
All go free when multitudes offend.
Those whom guilt stains it equals.
An illustrious and ancient name.
Phoenicians first (if story be believed)
He was spurred on by rival valor.
Might was the measure of right.
The conqueror is not so much pleased by entering into open gates, as by forcing his way. He desires not the fields to be cultivated by the patient husbandman; he would have them laid waste by fire and sword. It would be his shame to go by a way already opened.
Agreement exists in disagreement.
Legality conferred on crime.
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