Lucan
historical figure · 1 work · 3 mentions · 4 anchored passages · author page · cited 3 times in 1 work
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.
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;
For which reason Alexander was not improperly styled a robber by the Scythian ambassadors, as may be seen in Quintus Curtius.
A case to which the expression of Lucan may be applied, that “order never loses its rights under any change of circumstances.