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Abstract
This project examines Caesars three extended battle exhortations in Lucans BellumCivile (1.299-351, 5.319-364, 7.250-329) and the speeches that accompany them in an effort to discover patterns in the characters speech. Lucan did not seem to develop a specific Caesarian style of speech, but he does make an effort to show the changing relationship between the General and his soldiers in the three scenes analyzed. The troops, initially under the spell of madness that pervades the poem, rebel. Caesar, through speech, is able to bring them into line. Caesar caters to the soldiers interests and egos and crafts his speeches in order to keep his army working together.