Lucan
historical figure · 1 work · 3 mentions · 4 anchored passages · author page
in the texts
The Rights of War and Peace
Roman poet cited for a moral judgment on Alexander and for verses on rulers' duty of self-preservation.
For which reason Alexander was not improperly styled a robber by the Scythian ambassadors, as may be seen in Quintus Curtius.
to whom may be applied the lines of Lucan—“When the lives and safety of so many nations depend upon yours, and so great a portion of the world has chosen you for its head;
A case to which the expression of Lucan may be applied, that “order never loses its rights under any change of circumstances.