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Passage in Lucan

By T. H. KERSLEY. (King William's College, Isle of Man)

The following are parallel passages to that in Lucan's *Pharsalia*, b. vii. 814., referred to by Mr. Sansom. Ovid. *Metam.* 1. 256.:— "Esse quoque in fatis reminiscitur affore tempus, Quo mare, quo tellus, correptaque regia cœli Ardeat; et mundi moles operos laboret." Cic. *De Nat. Deor.* 11. 46.:— "Ex quo eventurum nostri putant id, de quo Panætium addubitare dicebant, ut ad extremum omnis mundus ignesceret; cum, humore consumto, neque terra ali posset neque remearet ær; cujus ortus, aqua omni exhausta, esse non posset," etc. Cic. *De Divinatione*, 1. 49.:— "Nam et natura futura præsentiunt,…

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