TranslationDeighton, Bell, 1891 |
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able abroad Acheron admit beasts begetting begotten birth blood blows bodies of matter borders of light born bright burning burning force carried cause clouds cold colour dark discoveries darkness death Democritus directions round discharged earth emit Ennius ether everlasting exist eyes fall fear feel filled fire first-beginnings of things fixed flame force formed frame give gods grass jewelled hand haply heat heaven iron kind lands limbs living things lucan LUCRETIUS Memmius methinks mighty mind moisture mortal motions move nature of things pass perceive plain Poeni produced race rains round scythed chariots seeds seen sense shapes shew shewn sides sleep soul space spot stirred stone stream stroke sum of things sure sweet Tartarus taught thee thou throughout thunderbolt tillage Tityos trees tumble verses voice void Wherefore whole body wild beasts winds wont
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Page 10 - I am weaving in verse : all nature then, as it exists by itself, is founded on two things: there are bodies and there is void in which these bodies are placed and through which they move about. For that body exists by itself the general feeling of mankind declares ; and unless at the very first belief in this be firmly grounded, there will be nothing to which we can appeal on hidden things in order to prove anything by reasoning of mind. Then again, if room and space which we call void did not exist,...
Page 103 - and darkness of mind must be dispelled, not by the rays of the sun and glittering shafts of day, but by the aspect and the law of nature.
Page 87 - And many races of living things must then have died out and been unable to beget and continue their breed. For in the case of all things which you see breathing the breath of life, either craft or courage or else speed has from the beginning of its existence protected and preserved each particular race.
Page 2 - Memmii, whom thou, goddess, hast willed to have no peer, rich as he ever is in every grace. Wherefore all the more, o lady, lend my lays an everliving charm. Cause meanwhile the savage M.
Page 11 - For whenever a thing changes and quits its proper limits, at once this change of state is the death of that which was before.
Page 11 - Now though this great country is seen to deserve in many ways the wonder of mankind and is held to be well worth visiting, rich in all good things, guarded by large force of men, yet seems it to have held within it nothing more glorious than this man, nothing more holy marvellous and dear.
Page 11 - For verily not by design did the first-beginnings of things station themselves each in its right place by keen intelligence, nor did they bargain sooth to say what motions each should assume, but because the first-beginnings of things many in number in many ways impelled by blows for infinite ages back and kept in motion by their own weights have been wont to be carried along and to unite in all manner...
Page 97 - Arms of old were hands nails and teeth and stones and boughs broken off from the forests, and flame and fire, as soon as they had become known.
Page 87 - But because she must have some limit set to her bearing, she ceased like a woman worn out by length of days. For time changes the nature of the whole world and all things must pass on from one condition to another, and nothing continues like to itself: all things quit their bounds, all things nature changes and compels to alter.
Page 2 - ... traversed throughout in mind and spirit the immeasurable universe; whence he returns, a conqueror, to tell us what can, what cannot come into being; in short, on what principle each thing has its powers defined, its deep-set boundary mark.