Excerpt from Lucan's Pharsalia, Vol. 1 of 2: Translated Into English Verse

All the Accounts we have handed down tons of the firfi, are but very lame, and fcatter'd in Fragments of Ancient Authors, lam of Opinion, That one Realbn why his Life is not to be'found at any length, in the Writings of his Contemporaries, is the fear 'they were in of Nero's Retent ment, who could not bear to have the Life if a Man fer-in a true fight, véhbn'f, ' together with his Uncle Seneca, he, had' Sacrifie'd to his Revenge. N0twithl'tand ing this, we have fome Hints in Wriq ters who liv'd near' his time, that leave us not alto ether in the dark, about the'

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