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