...something pf the truth. Lucretius ascribes this deterioration and unhappiness to religion : " Human life lay foully prostrate upon earth crushed down under the weight of religion " : the " victory over religion brings man level with heaven " : and therefore " we must well grasp...

...mankind a way of deliverance from these terrors. To quote from the opening part of the first book: When human life to view lay foully prostrate upon...hideous aspect lowering upon mortals, a man of Greece [Epicurus] ventured first to lift up his mortal eyes to her face and first to withstand her to her...

...cakes of stone for pavements; apecularii, makers of mirrors; pelliones, workers in leather. p. [48]. 1. "When human life to view lay foully prostrate upon...earth crushed down under the weight of religion, who shewed her head from the quarters of heaven with hideous aspect lowering upon mortals, a man of Greece...

...and demigods and heroes, awaiting the poet's summons to take their places, presenting one group 1 " When human life to view lay foully prostrate upon...earth crushed down under the weight of religion, who shewed her head from the quarters of heaven with hideous aspect lowering upon mortals, a man of Greece...

...expresses in the strongest way his obligations to his master: "When human life lay shamefully grovelling upon earth, crushed down under the weight of Religion, -who showed her face from heaven, frowning upon mortals from on high with awful aspect, a man of Greece was the first...

...regions of perception and reasoning. When Lucretius spoke of " human life " as "shamefully grovelling upon earth, crushed down under the weight of religion, who showed her face from heaven frowning upon mortals from on high with awfub aspect," then religion had not yet descended...