("Pomp." 61.) (21) Compare Ben Jonson's "Catiline," I.1: -- Lecca: The day goes back, Or else my senses.
Curius: As at Atreus' feast.
(22) When the Theban brothers, Eteocles and Polynices, were being burned on the same pyre, the flame shot up in two separate tongues, indicating that even in death they could not be reconciled.

(Mr.Haskins' note, citing Statius, "Thebiad") (23) "Shook the old snow from off their trembling laps." (Marlowe.) The Latin word is "jugis".
(24) Book VI., 420.
(25) Sulla was buried in the Campus Martius.

(Plutarch, "Sulla,".) The corpse of Marius was dragged from his tomb by Sulla's order, and thrown into the Anio.
(26) Such a ceremonial took place in A.D.56 under Nero, after the temples of Jupiter and Minerva had been struck by lightning, and was probably witnessed by Lucan himself.
(See Merivale's "History of the Roman Empire," chapter lii.) (27) See Book IX., 1178.
(28) The confusion between the site of the battle of Philippi and that of the battle of Pharsalia is common among the Roman writers.

(See the note to Merivale, chapter xxvi.).