Marcus Annaeus Lucan

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    Among those who share a throne there can be no loyalty; Dominion’s ever impatient consort.
    Marcus Annaeus Lucan (39–65)

    He [Pompey] stands, the shadow of a great name.
    —Marcus Annaeus Lucan (39–65)

    Among those who share a throne there can be no loyalty; Dominion’s ever impatient consort.
    Marcus Annaeus Lucan (39–65)

    No failure in America, whether of love or money, is ever simple; it is always a kind of betrayal, of a mass of shadowy, shared hopes.
    —Greil Marcus (b. 1945)

    He [Pompey] stands, the shadow of a great name.
    —Marcus Annaeus Lucan (39–65)

    Not only had Caesar a great name and a general’s glory, but his valor knew no rest, and the only thing he looked upon as a disgrace was not winning a battle.
    —Marcus Annaeus Lucan (39–65)