The Commenta Bernensia and Adnotationes Super Lucanum are two 9th-century compilations of scholia on the Latin poet Lucan's Pharsalia.
The text of Lucan's Pharsalia in the 9th-century manuscript Bern 45, with the Commenta Bernensia in the margins
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De Bello Civili, more commonly referred to as the Pharsalia, is a Roman epic poem written by the poet Lucan, detailing the civil war between Julius Caesar and the forces of the Roman Senate led by Pom
The Pharsalia was especially popular in times of civil wars and similar troubles; for example the editor of this 1592 edition, Theodor Pulmann, explains Lucan's relevance by the French Wars of Religion (1562–98).
Susanna Braund argues that, were the poem to have been finished, it would have ended with Cato's death.
In book six, Erichtho (pictured) performs a necromantic rite, which many contend is one of the Pharsalia's best-known sequences.
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