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Cruciamenta: verum enimvero nulla adaequest Acheruns | 48,323 |
Atque ubi ego fui in lapicidinis.' | 48,323 |
'Ergo hominum genus incassum frustraque laborat | 48,323 |
Semper et in curis consumit inanibus aevom, | 48,323 |
Nimirum quia non cognovit quae sit habendi | 48,323 |
Finis et omnino quoad crescat vera voluptas.' | 48,323 |
title of a poem. The work of Empedocles and the kindred works of | 48,323 |
with the imaginative fancies of the dawn of ancient enquiry. He | 48,323 |
professes to make both conducive to the practical purpose of | 48,323 |
Quoniam haec ratio plerumque videtur | 48,323 |
Tristior esse quibus non est tractata, retroque | 48,323 |
Volgus abhorret ab hac. | 48,323 |
Aeneadum genetrix, hominum divomque voluptas, etc.;-- | 48,323 |
and again the lines in the introduction to Book iii:-- | 48,323 |
Apparet divum numen sedesque quietae, etc. | 48,323 |
but akin to, the impulses of poetry. That marvellous intensity of | 48,323 |
Again, although his rhythm, even at its best, falls far short of | 48,323 |
In caeloque deum sedes et templa locarunt, | 48,323 |
Per caelum volvi quia nox et luna videtur, | 48,323 |
Luna dies et nox et noctis signa severa | 48,323 |
Noctivagaeque faces caeli flammaeque volantes. | 48,323 |
Nubila sol imbres nix venti fulmina grando | 48,323 |
Et rapidi fremitus et murmura magna minarum. | 48,323 |
Urgerive superne obtritum pondere terrae,-- | 48,323 |
at ii. 569-580, by the sad and solemn movement of the close,-- | 48,323 |
Ploratus mortis comites et funeris atri,-- | 48,323 |
and at i. 101, by the line of cardinal significance, which ends a | 48,323 |
Tantum religio potuit suadere malorum. | 48,323 |
The poetical style of Lucretius is, like his rhythm, a true and | 48,323 |
Usque adeo largos haustus e fontibu' magnis | 48,323 |
Lingua meo suavis diti de pectore fundet. | 48,323 |
Thus although the poetical style of Lucretius shows the traces of | 48,323 |
immediately reproduced in such lines as these:-- | 48,323 |
Caeli subter labentia signa | 48,323 |
Quae mare navigerum quae terras frugiferentis | 48,323 |
Denique per maria ac montis fluviosque rapacis | 48,323 |
Frondiferasque domos avium camposque virentis. | 48,323 |
Frondiferasque novis avibus canere undique silvas. | 48,323 |
Nam saepe in colli tondentes pabula laeta | 48,323 |
Lanigerae reptant pecudes quo quamque vocantes | 48,323 |
Invitant herbae gemmantes rore recenti. | 48,323 |
Nec tenerae salices atque herbae rore vigentis | 48,323 |
Fluminaque illa queunt summis labentia ripis. | 48,323 |
Quam fluitans circum magnis anfractibus aequor | 48,323 |
Ionium glaucis aspargit virus ab undis. | 48,323 |
Severa silentia noctis | 48,323 |
Undique cum constent. | 48,323 |
Ut nubes facile interdum concrescere in alto | 48,323 |
Cernimus et mundi speciem violare serenam | 48,323 |
Aera mulcentes motu. | 48,323 |
Pars etiam glebarum ad diluviem revocatur | 48,323 |
Imbribus et ripas radentia flumina rodunt. | 48,323 |
The changing face of Nature is to his spirit so full of power and | 48,323 |
Morte obita quorum tellus amplectitur ossa, | 48,323 |
Ossa dedit terrae proinde ac famul infimus esset. | 48,323 |
Ergo cum primum magnas invecta per urbis | 48,323 |
Munificat tacita mortalis muta salute. | 48,323 |
Aeternumque daret matri sub pectore volnus,-- | 48,323 |
tacito mussabat medicina timore,-- | 48,323 |
tacita pectus dulcedine tangent,-- | 48,323 |
His ibi me rebus quaedam divina voluptas | 48,323 |
Percipit adque horror.-- | 48,323 |
His language has the further power of producing a vague sense of | 48,323 |
Altitonans Volturnus et auster fulmine pollens. | 48,323 |
Nec fulmina nec minitanti | 48,323 |
Murmure compressit caelum. | 48,323 |
Murmura magna minarum, etc. | 48,323 |
Impendent atrae formidinis ora superne. | 48,323 |
Sustentata ruet moles et machina mundi. | 48,323 |
Aut cecidisse urbis magno vexamine mundi. | 48,323 |
Non si terra mari miscebitur et mare caelo. | 48,323 |
Avia Pieridum peragro loca nullius ante | 48,323 |
Trita solo; | 48,323 |
Volvere curarum tristis in pectore fluctus, | 48,323 |
Errare atque viam palantis quaerere vitae. | 48,323 |
A similar power of imagination is shown in his more elaborate use | 48,323 |
Sed quasi naufragiis magnis multisque coortis | 48,323 |
Disiectare solet magnum mare transtra guberna | 48,323 |
Antemnas proram malos tonsasque natantis, | 48,323 |
Per terrarum omnis oras fluitantia aplustra | 48,323 |
Ut videantur et indicium mortalibus edant, | 48,323 |
Infidi maris insidias virisque dolumque | 48,323 |
Ut vitare velint, neve ullo tempore credant, | 48,323 |
Subdola cum ridet placidi pellacia ponti, | 48,323 |
Sic tibi si finita semel primordia quaedam | 48,323 |
Constitues, aevom debebunt sparsa per omnem | 48,323 |
Disiectare aestus diversi materiari, | 48,323 |
Numquam in concilium ut possint compulsa coire | 48,323 |
Nec remorari in concilio nec crescere adaucta. | 48,323 |
Pinea semiferi capitis velamina quassans,-- | 48,323 |
Quae caput a caeli regionibus ostendebat | 48,323 |
Horribili super aspectu mortalibus instans. | 48,323 |
It ver et Venus, et veris praenuntius ante | 48,323 |
Pennatus graditur zephyrus, vestigia propter | 48,323 |
Flora quibus mater praespargens ante viai | 48,323 |
Cuncta coloribus egregiis et odoribus opplet. | 48,323 |
But it is in describing actual scenes and actual aspects of human | 48,323 |
Quod in magnis bacchatur montibu' passim,-- | 48,323 |
In the descriptions of Lucretius, as in those of Homer, there is | 48,323 |
Nec validi possunt pontes venientis aquai | 48,323 |