Lucan. Pharsal. I. 542.
Involvetque orbem tenebris, gentesque coegit
Desperare diem—
Book I. v. 665.
The sudden blaze
Far round illumined hell; highly they raged
Against the Highest, and fierce with grasped arms
Clashed on their sounding shields the din of war.
Lucret. L II. 325.
Fulgur ibi ad cœlum se tollit, totaque circum