SCRIPTURA

Classical Latin

Pharsalia · De Bello Civili

Lucan

Translated by Sir Edward Ridley

The civil war between Caesar and Pompey as dark epic, written under Nero by a poet he forced to die at twenty-five.

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  • Latin: ed. Karl Hermann Weise, from the Perseus Digital Library (canonical-latinLit, phi0917.phi001, CC BY-SA 4.0).
  • English: Sir Edward Ridley, from the Perseus Digital Library (phi0917.phi001.perseus-eng2). Notes are not included.
  • Rows follow the references the two texts share (line numbers), cut where both reach the end of a sentence.

Contents · 21

  1. 1Book I · lines 1–290
  2. 2Book I · lines 291–695
  3. 3Book II · lines 1–438
  4. 4Book II · lines 439–736
  5. 5Book III · lines 1–398
  6. 6Book III · lines 399–762
  7. 7Book IV · lines 1–582
  8. 8Book IV · lines 583–824
  9. 9Book V · lines 1–475
  10. 10Book V · lines 476–815
  11. 11Book VI · lines 1–506
  12. 12Book VI · lines 507–830
  13. 13Book VII · lines 1–459
  14. 14Book VII · lines 460–872
  15. 15Book VIII · lines 1–455
  16. 16Book VIII · lines 456–872
  17. 17Book IX · lines 1–409
  18. 18Book IX · lines 410–838
  19. 19Book IX · lines 839–1108
  20. 20Book X · lines 1–331
  21. 21Book X · lines 332–546