Note 913 — Chapter VI · LUCAN: HISTORICAL EPIC

Op. cit., p. 270. The late Canon Cruickshank, Professor of Greek in Durham, saw a possible limit in the reference to Munda (45 B.C.) as the last battle of the civil wars, I. 40. But some take ultima there as “most distant,” and Lucan, in spite of ultima, goes on to refer to Mutina (43) and Perusia (41 B.C.).