Quotes from Lucan

There stands the shadow of a glorious name.

A name illustrious and revered by nations.

Thinking nothing done while anything remained to be done.

We all praise fidelity; but the true friend pays the penalty when he supports those whom Fortune crushes.

Is the dwelling place of God anywhere but in the earth and sea, the air and sky, and virtue? Why seek we further for deities? Whatever you see, whatever you touch, that is Jupiter.

I have a wife, I have sons: all of them hostages given to fate.

The very ruins have been destroyed.

Nobody ever chooses the already unfortunate as objects of his loyal friendship.

Keep to moderation, keep the end in view, follow nature.

If the victor had the gods on his side, the vanquished had Cato.

A crime which is the crime of many none avenge.

A show of daring oft conceals great fear.

The mere apprehension of a coming evil has put many into a situation of the utmost danger.

quod defles, illud amasti.

Victrix causa deis placuit sed victa Catoni

tacito mala vota susiro concipimus" -- Lucan v 94 With silent whisperings we, For ill things supplicants be.

Even so, when the framework of the world is dissolved, and the final hour, closing so many ages, reverts to pristine chaos, then the fiery stars will drop into the sea, and the earth will shake off the ocean...and the whole distracted firmament will overthrow its laws.

hic sacra domus carique penates, hic mihi Roma fuit.

Sive parens rerum, cum primum informia regna Materiamque rudem flamma cedente recpit, Fixit in aeternum causas, qua cuncta coercet Se quoque lege tenens, et saecula iussa ferentem Fatorum inmoto divisit limite mundum; Sive nihil positom est sed fors incerta vagatur Fertque refertque vices, et habet mortalia casus: Sit subitum, quodcumque paras; sit caeca future Mens hominum fati; liceat sperare timenti.

Inde lacessitum primo mare, cum rudis Argo Miscuit ignotas temerato litore gentes Priamque cum ventis pelagique furentibus undis Conposuit mortale genus, fatisque per ilam Accesit mors una ratem.

From Iolcus the sea was first challenged, when the untried Argo scorned the shore and brought together nations that before were strangers; she first matched mankind against the raging winds and waves of ocean, and by her means a new form of death was added to the old.

The man prepared to die will not be beaten cheaply.

Death, would that you scorned to take the coward's life, And came only to valour!

Nobody ever chooses the already unfortunate as objects of his loyal friendship.