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Lu⋅can

  [loo-kuhn]
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(Marcus Annaeus Lucanus) a.d. 39–65, Roman poet, born in Spain.
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Lu·can   (lōō'kən)   
Roman poet who wrote the Pharsalia, an epic account of the civil war between Caesar and Pompey.
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Lucan

Roman poet and republican patriot whose historical epic, the Bellum civile, better known as the Pharsalia because of its vivid account of that battle, is remarkable as the single major Latin epic poem that eschewed the intervention of the gods.

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