#AND YET. lucan chooses to get weird and ahistorical About Cicero Specifically and puts him in the battle of pharsalus like. for funsies
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cic. att. 14.10.1 trans. e-pistulae / lucan, pharsalia 7.638-46 trans. a.s. kline
#i just think it is funny that cicero and lucan both make avery similar point about past events causing survivors / people born later to#experience a form of living death / political death etc#(+ i think caesar winning the civil war. in which the big victory Was the battle of pharsalus. is important to when cicero thinks the Being#Dead started)#AND YET. lucan chooses to get weird and ahistorical About Cicero Specifically and puts him in the battle of pharsalus like. for funsies#like lucan voice well maybe mr mtc You Did actually have the opportunity to do something or die about it#like. he didn’t. he extremely very much Did Not. but it is SUCH a silly coincidence#that the guy making the same complaint is the guy lucan retroactively frames as hypocritical for making that complaint#like for WHAT. i still don’t get what cicero is even doing in the pharsalia. go home marce tulli!!!#also i don’t think this is intentional on lucan’s part (unless…?)#i just see a state of living death and i’m like. oh i am going to translate this SO literally#intertextual ghosts is when you translate cicero via the lucan that doesn’t exist yet or something#epistulaeposting#cicero#pharsalia#the fear: that nothing survives. the greater fear: that something does.#beeps
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