The oak and the thunderbolt

As civil war threatens, the poet Lucan sums up the protagonists: Pompey (pictured) has popularity, authority and the advantages of a mighty reputation, but Caesar has something more.

See and hear Lucan’s Latin from his De Bello Civile and follow in English here.

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