Excerpt from The Pharsalia of Lucan, Vol. 1: Translated by Right Hon. Sir Edward RidleyScythian Ocean traversed by horses and chariots, but the simile is preceded and followed by two lengthy descriptions of the calm which are quite as graphic as the simile and overpower it by their detail. Again, in the bulk of the similes themselves there is not any great poetical beauty. Taken, as they often are, from unattractive mythological stories, or wi...
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