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The Meaning of the Pharsalia

Berthe M. Marti

American Journal of Philology. (1945) pp. 352-376

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[675 words] mind, power, true, sense, moral, truth, knowledge, things, idea, ideal, experience, himself, divine, spirit, individual, ideas, natural, conception, expression, reality, real, feeling, vision, attitude, toward, every, intellectual, beauty, something, action

[553 words] love, himself, fear, anger, passion, moral, violence, suicide, punishment, desire, woman, herself, contrast, suffering, makes, victim, gods, evil, power, pity, shame, fate, situation, grief, cause, violent, behavior, becomes, theme, madness

[390 words] caesar, pompey, lucan, antony, octavian, brutus, cicero, appian, cato, civil_war, pollio, suetonius, antonius, caes, augustus, plutarch, cassius, pompeius, cleopatra, suet, curio, pharsalia, plut, julius_caesar, caesars, domitius, plancus, italy, hirtius, actium

[190 words] himself, young, ever, whom, every, your, days, things, mind, wrote, spirit, enough, something, true, famous, friend, words, youth, country, poet, knew, high, become, love, take, poor, name, story, master, living

[171 words] eyes, thou, your, night, earth, away, heart, thee, blood, forth, love, simile, sleep, beauty, tears, mind, poet, lines, heaven, hands, comes, words, gods, song, water, face, sound, passage, dark, sweet

[163 words] passage, atque, virgil, lines, nunc, ovid, ille, vergil, lucan, line, haec, caput, inter, hinc, ipse, terra, passages, silius, sanguine, quem, illa, ante, omnia, arma, mare, manus, tibi, super, caelum, sidera

[124 words] army, city, military, took, troops, himself, control, power, events, position, situation, policy, force, sent, return, revolt, attack, victory, peace, forces, defeat, action, soon, attempt, success, battle, enemy, became, command, remained

[119 words] stoic, stoics, chrysippus, zeno, sextus, cicero, posidonius, diogenes, philosophical, epictetus, philosophy, stoicism, philosophers, doctrine, plutarch, assent, sceptic, philo, diogenes_laertius, cynic, ethics, galen, academic, epicurean, impression, impressions, stoa, pyrrho, scepticism, panaetius

[97 words] philosophy, literary, works, influence, philosophical, writers, tradition, greeks, intellectual, knowledge, ideas, writings, education, philosophers, poets, political, early, plato, period, wrote, written, romans, authors, writing, historians, attitude, moral, philosopher, poetry, himself

[90 words] gods, zeus, divine, hesiod, prometheus, earth, hera, apollo, power, justice, prayer, mortal, hermes, athena, mortals, theogony, heaven, muses, goddess, myth, poseidon, poet, olympus, aphrodite, homer, fate, birth, divinity, dike, passage

[77 words] esse, atque, enim, etiam, quid, neque, cicero, eius, nihil, quidem, esset, tamen, nisi, mihi, sibi, quibus, erat, causa, haec, fuit, omnia, modo, quem, autem, omnes, ipse, sine, quis, ille, rerum

[77 words] seneca, senecan, stoic, philosopher, dial, apocolocyntosis, gercke, lucilius, epistulae, prose, clementia, juvenal, senecas, praef, hense, vitae, letters, contr, claudius, letter, hine, dialogues, seneque, morales, beneficiis, epistle, axelson, exile, senecae, traveling

[72 words] ovid, vergil, virgil, poem, poet, poetry, poets, aeneid, poems, epic, metamorphoses, horace, latin, georgics, catullus, fasti, lucan, works, poetic, culex, heroides, lines, ciris, verse, ovidian, lucretius, literary, verses, tristia, amores

[71 words] story, king, himself, told, tale, night, city, sent, house, killed, away, having, whom, father, took, home, stories, wife, his_father, version, woman, child, return, dream, his_wife, dead, gave, children, mother, hands

[64 words] language, words, effect, literary, poet, expression, tone, contrast, speech, passages, reader, manner, poetry, himself, rhetorical, passage, dramatic, prose, poetic, uses, technique, lines, characteristic, theme, writing, treatment, makes, serious, kind, familiar

[61 words] narrative, events, chapter, section, books, beginning, story, sections, sequence, chapters, begins, follows, passage, composition, theme, structure, digression, followed, lines, opening, introduction, chronological, immediately, treatment, event, division, preceding, arrangement, passages, action

[48 words] aber, wird, durch, oder, einer, wenn, werden, diese, sind, noch, hier, sein, nach, dieser, kann, einen, haben, sondern, einem, doch, seiner, seine, selbst, dann, schon, denn, mehr, ganz, dieses, ohne

[44 words] himself, true, truth, matter, criticism, merely, facts, really, real, passage, attempt, false, claim, accept, words, knowledge, belief, enough, regard, prove, makes, error, simply, wrong, statements, critics, surely, actually, serious, take

[44 words] himself, friends, political, personal, public, friend, whom, friendship, attitude, position, reputation, conduct, having, towards, toward, enemies, praise, private, cause, return, influence, claim, speech, charges, power, true, actions, themselves, felt, career

[40 words] homer, homeric, iliad, odyssey, epic, poet, poems, oral, poetry, tradition, parry, poets, poem, similes, traditional, composition, hesiod, formulaic, formula, heroic, poetic, lord, epics, simile, language, oral_poetry, singer, verse, narrative, formulas

[35 words] soul, body, plotinus, plato, matter, intellect, souls, timaeus, universe, evil, divine, doctrine, things, intelligible, principle, bodies, cosmos, power, proclus, demiurge, cause, passage, forms, platonic, nous, sense, idea, rational, myth, immortal

[32 words] political, power, democracy, city, politics, citizens, rule, government, democratic, polis, laws, constitution, community, republic, aristocratic, empire, individual, freedom, ideal, aristocracy, citizen, economic, wealth, control, monarchy, tyranny, oligarchy, states, athens, institutions

[31 words] tibi, mihi, quid, ovid, nunc, haec, quis, tamen, esse, ille, illa, semper, ipse, erit, sine, quoque, fuit, amor, saepe, nobis, quem, licet, puer, bene, trist, habet, nostra, manus, modo, erat

[31 words] aristotle, pleasure, virtue, action, justice, desire, pleasures, moral, things, happiness, ethics, pain, soul, virtues, goods, actions, desires, person, agent, eudaimonia, activity, rational, sake, sense, natural, plato, something, claim, ethical, pleasant

[30 words] context, simply, position, hypothesis, argued, text, makes, claim, explain, suggestion, correct, grounds, reasons, alternative, actually, argue, moreover, attempt, surely, obvious, accept, argues, unlikely, enough, issue, sense, passage, presumably, difficulties, plausible

[27 words] hermes, diss, wilamowitz, studien, philologus, untersuchungen, stuttgart, literatur, gottingen, commentary, edition, heidelberg, philol, review, gnomon, dichtung, darmstadt, suppl, tapa, fraenkel, jaeger, repr, wiesbaden, norden, schmid, wilamowitz-moellendorff, amsterdam, dissertation, philosophie, uber

[26 words] cicero, sulla, pompey, caesar, crassus, marius, senate, catiline, pompeius, clodius, consul, sallust, plutarch, plut, consulship, cato, lucullus, metellus, political, appian, badian, piso, gabinius, scaurus, tribune, praetor, antonius, broughton, curio, cinna

[24 words] role, context, image, contrast, sense, narrative, audience, reader, text, power, language, theme, images, function, traditional, reading, imagery, himself, becomes, makes, central, literary, complex, focus, meaning, perspective, status, level, process, emphasis

[17 words] aristotle, tragedy, poetics, tragic, poetry, plot, pity, comedy, drama, action, poet, imitation, fear, characters, emotions, mimesis, catharsis, dramatic, definition, moral, aristotelian, audience, else, chapter, bywater, pleasure, hamartia, pathos, play, poets

[16 words] period, early, development, influence, forms, developed, earliest, tradition, stage, beginning, became, become, changes, periods, characteristic, process, result, tendency, greater, true, sixth, introduced, throughout, marked, fourth, stages, longer, began, fifth_century, simple

[16 words] augustus, temple, jupiter, cult, emperor, caesar, augustan, mars, triumph, gods, ludi, victory, venus, dedication, romulus, octavian, dedicated, juno, statue, divine, altar, fasti, games, augusti, title, livia, apollo, genius, imperial, divus

[16 words] word, meaning, sense, words, term, uses, phrase, passage, mean, context, passages, usage, applied, verb, expression, refer, language, refers, meanings, adjective, idea, meant, equivalent, elsewhere, describe, latin, technical, epithet, definition, simply

[14 words] true, passage, words, merely, matter, position, suppose, regard, name, enough, natural, mention, difficulty, period, prove, having, regarded, himself, except, facts, really, naturally, supposed, definite, makes, assumed, alone, correct, actually, referred

[14 words] cicero, quintilian, orator, rhetorical, rhetoric, oratory, speech, brutus, de_oratore, cato, orat, speeches, quint, latin, ciceronian, eloquence, gellius, dialogue, orators, seneca, crassus, declamation, antonius, rhet, brut, calvus, oratorical, herennium, auctor, laelius

[13 words] fire, water, earth, wind, rain, winds, heat, cold, weather, night, lightning, storm, clouds, thunder, burning, eruption, snow, volcanic, cloud, winter, drought, darkness, smoke, hail, fires, flame, earthquakes, flames, pumice, phenomena

[12 words] heracles, herakles, lion, hero, theseus, perseus, serpent, bull, deianeira, snake, centaur, hercules, boar, gorgon, medusa, snakes, centaurs, monster, deianira, shield, andromeda, giant, hydra, myth, amphitryon, hyllus, club, eurystheus, lions, geryon

[11 words] statius, hercules, seneca, thyestes, silvae, thebaid, atreus, polynices, theb, octavia, eteocles, tydeus, adrastus, senecan, silv, tragedies, melior, silius, martial, play, jupiter, tantalus, zwierlein, etruscus, epic, duel, phaed, thebes, furens, plays

[11 words] women, marriage, children, woman, wife, family, child, slave, mother, husband, slaves, daughter, married, father, male, female, her_husband, parents, his_wife, status, wives, household, young, girl, bride, marry, birth, sons, girls, sexual

[11 words] alexander, arrian, macedonian, philip, king, curtius, diodorus, diod, tarn, ptolemy, macedonians, antigonus, plutarch, macedonia, alexander_the_great, demetrius, curt, royal, plut, olympias, antipater, alex, persian, eumenes, justin, sources, darius, perdiccas, bosworth, hammond

[10 words] esse, enim, autem, etiam, haec, tamen, quidem, atque, quia, vero, apud, modo, quibus, quid, quoque, dicitur, neque, nihil, eius, quasi, inter, videtur, igitur, omnia, potest, loco, ergo, nisi, unde, illud

[10 words] passage, sense, text, meaning, sentence, words, word, reading, phrase, line, mean, translation, clause, context, lines, follows, editors, refer, difficulty, verb, makes, emendation, take, refers, preceding, expression, passages, correct, understood, translates

[8 words] aeneas, vergil, aeneid, virgil, dido, turnus, troy, anchises, trojans, juno, epic, venus, poem, jupiter, trojan, italy, hero, servius, latinus, carthage, poet, episode, mezentius, words, future, simile, books, story, ascanius, lines

[8 words] achilles, iliad, hector, agamemnon, homer, troy, ajax, odysseus, patroclus, priam, homeric, diomedes, trojans, greeks, nestor, battle, hero, trojan, heroes, thetis, poet, menelaus, zeus, achilleus, epic, warrior, achaeans, heroic, fight, hektor

[7 words] greeks, greece, peoples, cities, early, land, strabo, egypt, asia_minor, name, island, city, eastern, region, italy, islands, country, native, inhabitants, geographical, western, tribes, coast, tradition, northern, mediterranean, asia, civilization, romans, population

[7 words] your, something, take, things, thing, enough, done, really, anything, himself, look, mind, mean, away, going, want, keep, matter, sort, every, kind, doing, else, tell, suppose, having, ever, words, help, understand

[6 words] latin, english, language, teacher, student, reading, teachers, teaching, pupils, words, vocabulary, knowledge, pupil, translation, method, classics, grammar, schools, training, learning, taught, education, teach, learn, value, instruction, every, high_school, languages, ability

[6 words] idem, romain, empire, roman_empire, sous, i988, i989, i987, i986, i990, i982, i984, i985, i983, i992, i99i, siecle, jones, latomus, millar, anrw, chiron, i98i, i993, i980, actes, i994, acta, i977, brunt

[6 words] source, text, sources, passage, information, works, passages, written, version, fragments, name, authors, quoted, tradition, literary, mention, fragment, extant, books, himself, wrote, early, writers, title, commentary, quotations, texts, derived, knowledge, collection

[6 words] collection, information, athens, done, knowledge, received, collections, objects, carried, completed, valuable, investigation, progress, devoted, country, task, service, hope, greece, visit, sent, every, volume, gave, soon, museums, value, german, full, future

[6 words] ship, ships, fleet, boat, sail, voyage, harbor, wind, shore, sailing, oars, port, storm, vessels, sailors, harbour, vessel, boats, coast, trireme, hull, triremes, casson, naval, winds, water, cargo, wreck, shipwreck, stern

[5 words] speech, words, himself, speaker, audience, lines, situation, scene, action, address, makes, line, speak, asks, addressed, response, begins, take, effect, immediately, reply, comes, your, speaking, speaks, moment, advice, beginning, passage, questions

[5 words] socrates, plato, protagoras, knowledge, dialogue, justice, meno, gorgias, socratic, virtue, true, apology, euthyphro, himself, republic, thrasymachus, wisdom, things, callicles, truth, dialogues, sophists, crito, definition, vlastos, claim, irony, laws, xenophon, hippias

[5 words] latin, proceedings, review, volume, boston, weekly, american_philological_association, frank, charles, title, classical_philology, henry, translation, books, oldfather, edition, english, publications, philological, moore, gildersleeve, horace, edward, cloth, smith, entitled, fowler, scott, session, cicero

[5 words] analysis, sources, understanding, individual, information, context, questions, literary, texts, development, role, provide, structure, aspects, early, basic, complex, traditional, range, provides, data, function, significant, patterns, process, useful, pattern, attempt, limited, techniques