This author recited the lines "This our battle brings / One name of pity and one of hate / I, vanquished, bear the shame of defeat / And though he triumphs the conquest is a crime" from his masterpiece to a crowd as he committed suicide, according to Ammianus Marcellinus. His other major poem, an elegy for Virgil, won a prize at the First Quinquennial Neronian festival. His only surviving works are first ten books of his unfinished masterpiece, and 2 letters to his maternal uncle, the Younger Seneca, with whom this poet was sentenced to die for their participation in t
This author recited the lines "This our battle brings / One name of pity and one of hate / I, vanquished, bear the shame of defeat / And though he triumphs the conquest is a crime" from his masterpiece to a crowd as he committed suicide, according to Ammianus Marcellinus. His other major poem, an elegy for Virgil, won a prize at the First Quinquennial Neronian festival. His only surviving works are first ten books of his unfinished masterpiece, and 2 letters to his maternal uncle, the Younger Seneca, with whom this poet was sentenced to die for their participation in the Pisonian Conspiracy. Condemned in 65 CE by Nero, FTP, name this poet best known for an epic which he titled Bellum Civile, but which is more commonly called Pharsalia.
This author recited the lines "This our battle brings / One name of pity and one of hate /
Marcus Annaeus {Lucan}us