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Si non forte tuas legiones per loca campi, etc.--

have been noted as a probable allusion to the position actually

Certare ingenio, contendere nobilitate,

Noctes atque dies niti praestante labore

Ad summas emergere opes rerumque potiri,--

have a resemblance to words directly applied by Cicero to Caesar,

Thus the first general impression of Lucretius which we form from

of action and social pleasure, deliberately chose the life of

stage by the awnings of the theatre, of the works of art adorning

well as the occasional use of such words as _vidi_, show that

Palantis comites cum montis inter opacos

Quaerimus et magna dispersos voce ciemus,--

Nam loca declarat sursum ventosa patere

Res ipsa et sensus, montis cum ascendimus altos.

Propter aquae rivum sub ramis arboris altae,--

'Is fraught too deep with pain,'

'And thou hast pleasures too to share

With those who come to thee,

Balms floating on thy mountain air

And healing sights to see.'

Avia Pieridum peragro loca nullius ante

Trita solo--

moved Virgil less powerfully in speaking of his humbler theme--

Sed me Parnassi deserta per ardua dulcis

Raptat amor;

and inspired the English poet in his great invocation:--

I thence

Invoke thy aid to my adventurous song,

That with no middle flight intends to soar

Above the Aonian mount, while it pursues

Things unattempted yet in prose and rhyme.

The sense of difficulty and the joy of overcoming it meet us with

Ardua dum metuunt amittunt vera viai.

Without disowning the passion for fame,--'laudis spes magna,'--so

Conquisita diu dulcique reperta labore

Digna tua pergam disponere carmina cura:

Nunc age dicta meo dulci quaesita labore

Tuisque ex, inclute, chartis,

Floriferis ut apes in saltibus omnia libant,

Omnia nos itidem depascimur aurea dicta.

Multaque de rerum mixtura dicere callent

Et sibi proporro quae sint primordia quaerunt;

Nos agere hoc autem et naturam quaerere rerum

Semper et inventam patriis exponere chartis.

'The human heart by which we live.'

His high intellectual confidence, based on his firm trust in his

Clarus ob obscuram linguam magis inter inanis

Quamde gravis inter Graios qui vera requirunt.

Deus ille fuit, deus, inclute Memmi.

He speaks of his master throughout not only with the affection of

His admiration for him springs from a deeper source of spiritual

Nullam rem e nilo gigni divinitus unquam,

was obviously taken from the lines of the old poem περὶ φύσεως--

ἐκ τοῦ γὰρ μὴ ἐόντος ἀμήχανόν ἐστι γενέσθαι

τό τ᾽ ἐὸν ἐξόλλυσθαι ἀνήνυστον καὶ ἄπρηκτον.

Nil tamen hoc habuisse viro praeclarius in se

Nec sanctum magis et mirum carumque videtur.

Carmina quin etiam divini pectoris eius

Vociferantur et exponunt praeclara reperta,

Ut vix humana videatur stirpe creatus.

παῦρον δὲ ζωῆς ἀβίου μέρος ἀθρήσαντες

ὡκύμοροι, καπνοῖο δίκην ἀρθέντες ἀπέπταν

αὐτὸ μόνον πεισθέντες, ὅτῳ προσέκυρσεν ἕκαστος,

παντοσ᾽ ἐλαυνόμενοι· τὸ δ᾽οὖλον ἐπεύχεται εὑρεῖν

αὔτως. οὔτ᾽ ἐπιδερκτὰ τάδ᾽ ἄνδρασιν οὔτ᾽ ἐπάκουστα

οὔτε νόῳ περιληπτά.

Miscetur funere vagor

Quem pueri tollunt visentis luminis oras:

Nec nox ulla diem neque noctem aurora secutast

Quae non audierit mixtos vagitibus aegris

Ploratus mortis comites et funeris atri.

Besides Epicurus and Empedocles Lucretius mentions Democritus and

responses from the shrine of their own hearts with more holiness

and truth than the Pythia from the tripod and laurel of Apollo.'

Adde repertores doctrinarum atque leporum,

Adde Heliconiadum comites; quorum unus Homerus

Sceptra potitus eadem aliis sopitu' quietest.

The passages in which Lucretius imitates him show how clearly

he recognised his exact vision of outward things, and his true

Per gentis Italas hominum quae clara clueret,--

Lumina sis oculis etiam bonus Ancu' reliquit,--

inde super terras fluit agmine dulci,--

Scipiadas, belli fulmen, Carthaginis horror,--

Nam neque nos agere hoc patriai tempore iniquo,--

'Power to make

Our noisy years seem moments in the being

Of the eternal silence.'

But while by his silence on the subject of national glory and his

'Atque eadem nobis vigilantibus obvia mentes

Terrificant atque in somnis, cum saepe figuras

Contuimur miras simulacraque luce carentum,

Quae nos horrifice languentis saepe sopore

Excierunt, ne forte animas Acherunte reamur

Effugere aut umbras inter vivos volitare.'

Review, on 'Hallucination of the Senses,' suggests a possible

explanation of the mental condition of Lucretius, during the

προσαγωγότερον τῇ ἀκροάσει ἢ ἀληθέστερον.--Thuc. i. 21.]

'At non multa virum sub signis milia ducta

Una dies dabat exitio,' etc.--

'Ardua dum metuunt amittunt vera viai'