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Hinc alitur porro nostrum genus atque ferarum,

Hinc laetas urbes pueris florere videmus

Frondiferasque novis avibus canere undique silvas.

Inde super terras fluit agmine dulci

Qua via secta semel liquido pede detulit undas.

Denique tantopere inter se cum maxima mundi

Pugnent membra, pio nequaquam concita bello,

Nonne vides aliquam longi certaminis ollis

Posse dari finem? vel cum sol et vapor omnis

Omnibus epotis umoribus exsuperarint;

Quod facere intendunt, neque adhuc conata patrantur.

Et videas caelum summai totius unum

Quam sit parvula pars et quam multesima constet

Atque omne immensum peragravit mente animoque.

Quis regere immensi summam, quis habere profundi

Indu manu validas potis est moderanter habenas.

Degitur hoc aevi quodcumquest,

are called forth by the ever-present thought of the Infinite and

Invenies tamen inter se differre figuris.

the imagination of the poet seems, in some passages, to attach

atheistic. But the sense of will, freedom, individual life, is so

This new and more vital conception which supersedes the old

Aeneadum genetrix, hominum divomque voluptas,

The mysterious power there addressed is identified with the Alma

addressed as a Power, present through all the world,--

Caeli subter labentia signa

Quae mare navigerum quae terras frugiferentis

She is not only omnipresent, but all-creative,--

Per te quoniam genus omne animantum

and all-regulative--

Quae quoniam renum naturam sola gubernas, &c.

Quo magis aeternum da dictis, diva leporem.

ἡμεῖς δὲ κλέος οἶον ἀκούομεν, οὐδέ τι ἴδμεν,--

and by the gift of a Power which he cannot command. Like Goethe,

But still true to his philosophy, and remembering the Empedoclean

Tibi rident aequora ponti

Placatumque nitet diffuso lumine caelum;--

conscious of this joy.'

Omnia suppeditat porro Natura,--

Quando omnibus omnia large

Tellus ipsa parit Naturaque daedala rerum.

Denique si vocem rerum Natura repente, etc.

Usque adeo res humanas vis abdita quaedam

Opterit et pulchros fascis saevasque secures

Proculcare ac ludibrio sibi habere videtur.

ἦμος δ᾽ οὔτ᾽ ἄρ πω ἠώς, ἔτι δ᾽ ἀμφιλύκη νύξ.

associated, very little is known.]

'In quae corpora si nullus tibi forte videtur

Posse animi iniectus fieri, procul avius erras.'--ii. 739-40.

tidings of what may and what may not come into existence: on what

firmament is of the whole sum of things, how small a fraction it

They inculcated political quiescence as well as the abnegation of

susceptibility, as well as to the ordinary temperament of men. It

ἐξελαύνων, ἀφ᾽ ὧν πλεῖστος τὰς ψυχὰς καταλαμβάνει θόρυβος.' To a

regulating life by an ideal standard afforded a broader aim and a

'The longing for confirmed tranquillity

Inward and outward.'

At bene non poterat sine puro pectore vivi.

Nonne videre

Nil aliud sibi naturam latrare, nisi ut, cui

Corpore seiunctus dolor absit, mente fruatur

Iucundo sensu cura semotu' metuque?

This difference in the spirit, rather than the letter, of their

Suave, mari magno turbantibus aequora ventis, etc.

life was necessarily coloured by the action of his times; yet all

The evils of life, for the cure of which Lucretius considers his

philosophy available, appeared to him to spring not out of man's

relation to Nature, but out of the weakness of his reason and the

Intellegit ibi vitium vas efficere ipsum

Omniaque illius vitio corrumpier intus,

Quae conlata foris et commoda cumque venirent;

Partim quod fluxum pertusumque esse videbat,

Ut nulla posset ratione explerier umquam;

Partim quod taetro quasi conspurcare sapore

Omnia cernebat, quaecumque receperat, intus.

Omnia suffundens mortis nigrore.

Quid undas

Arguit et liquidam molem camposque natantis.

O genus infelix humanum, talia divis

Cum tribuit facta atque iras adiunxit acerbas!

Quantos tum gemitus ipsi sibi, quantaque nobis

Volnera, quas lacrimas peperere minoribu' nostris!

Nec pietas ullast velatum saepe videri

Vertier ad lapidem atque omnis accedere ad aras

Nec procumbere humi prostratum et pandere palmas

Ante deum delubra nec aras sanguine multo

Spargere quadrupedum nec votis nectere vota,

Sed mage pacata posse omnia mente tueri.

Nec delubra deum placido cum pectore adibis,

Nec de corpore quae sancto simulacra feruntur

In mentes hominum divinae nuntia formae

Suscipere haec animi tranquilla pace valebis.

Apparet divum numen sedesque quietae

Quas neque concutiunt venti nec nubila nimbis

Aspergunt neque nix acri concreta pruina

Cana cadens violat semperque innubilus aether

Integit, et large diffuso lumine rident.

'They reveal themselves to man in dreams and waking visions by

At, credo, in tenebris vita ac maerore iacebat,

Donec diluxit rerum genitalis origo.