sources: SRC_LUCAN_BELLUM_CIVILE

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SRC_LUCAN_BELLUM_CIVILE Lucan, Bellum Civile (Pharsalia) (c. 60–65 CE)   primary text Latin epic by Marcus Annaeus Lucanus on the Roman civil war. Book 1.444-446 is the primary source naming the three principal Gaulish gods: Esus, Teutates, and Taranis, described with their ritual practices (human sacrifice in water, tree, fire respectively). Scholia on the passage add interpretatio romana identifications. Standard edition: A.E. Housman (1926); trans. S.H. Braund (Oxford World's Classics).

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