"Lucan is the most philosophical and the most public-spirited poet of all antiquity."
— Lucan

January 1, 1970

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Hugh Blair, Lectures on Rhetoric and Belles Lettres (1784), Lecture XLIV: 'The Pharsalia of Lucan', p. 413