#<- iirc domitius is the only named senator to die at pharsalus? and i can't remember where lucan gets that detail from but like. hmmmmmm.
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cicero, philippics 2.59 + 71 trans. w.c.a. ker
#FOR THE COLLECTION! the post-pharsalus cannibal brunch is literally real.#upon what meat doth this our caesar feed#mark antony#philippics#lucancore#<- iirc domitius is the only named senator to die at pharsalus? and i can't remember where lucan gets that detail from but like. hmmmmmm.#hmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmm.#beeps
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lucan, pharsalia 7.786-95 trans. a.s. kline
cicero, philippics 2.59 + 71 trans. w.c.a. ker
#FOR THE COLLECTION! the post-pharsalus cannibal brunch is literally real.#lucancore#<- iirc domitius is the only named senator to die at pharsalus? and i can't remember where lucan gets that detail from but like. hmmmmmm.#<- original tags. NOW WHY DID I NOTICE THE SIMILARITY TO LUCAN BUT NOT PROCESS THE SIGNIFICANCE OF LUCAN GETTING PHIILPPICSCORE#WHEN LUCAN CHOOSES TO HAVE CICERO BE AHISTORICALLY PRESENT AT PHARSALUS.#WHAT DOES IT MEANNNNNNNNNNNNNNNN#ALSO INTERESTING THAT if lucan IS thinking of the philippics here (and not more generic Well What If The Guy I Don't Like Ate People On The#Battlefield stuff. like that is A Thing) he makes it about caesar and also is veryyyyyyyyy uninterested ig? in antony#i can think of like 2 times antony is mentioned in the pharsalia? and one of them is just a namedrop and the other caesar tells him some#stuff and he doesn't reply. HMMMMMM.#screaming and crying that we dont have the lost books of livy bcs i wonder if anyone between cicero and lucan a) named other senators who#died at pharsalus and b) went into detail about the death of lucius domitius ahenobarbus at pharsalus bcs like#if NOT. intriguing that cicero says antony fully killed him and lucan is like. nah. and then borrows all the details for caesar#PHARSALIA BOOK 7 YOU WILL ALWAYS BE FAMOUS TO MEEEEEE#beeps#pharsalia#philippics#upon what meat doth this our caesar feed#LITERALLY FOR ONCE#morgan don't look#<- pharsalia-typical blood/death
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