Volume 2

T. Lucreti Cari De rerum natura libri sex / with notes and a translation by H.A.J. Munro.

  • Lucretius
Date:
1900-1910
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    possumus aequo animo nec Memmi clara propago talibus in rebus communi desse saluti. * quod superest, vacuas auris animumque sagacem 5o semotum a curis adhibe veram ad rationem, ne mea dona tibi studio disposta fideli, intellecta prius quam sint, contempta relinquas. nam tibi de summa caeli ratione deumque disserere incipiam et rerum primordia pandam, 55 unde omnis natura creet res auctet alatque, quove eadem rursum natura perempta resolvat, quae nos materiem et genitalia corpora rebus reddunda in ratione vocare et semina rerum appellare suámus et haec eadem usurpare 60 corpora prima, quod ex illis sunt omnia primis. Humana ante oculos foede cum vita iacereb in terris oppressa gravi sub religione quae caput a caeli regionibus ostendebat horribili super aspectu mortalibus instans, 65 primum Graius homo mortalis tollere contra est oculos ausus primusque obsistere contra, gives tereti for teriti. 43 desse A corr. Nico. for id esse. 44 —49 —11 646—651. Is. Vossius in his ms. notes in my possession well observes that some one has inserted them here *ut ostenderet Lucret. sibi adversari qui, cum Deos mortalia non eurare affirmat [sic], Venerem tamen invocet'. Pont. Mar. Junt. omit them. Avancius in the text of Ald. 1 places them after 61 and has been followed by most editors before Lach.; but in his preface he well observes *unum affirmare ausim Omnis enim cum quinque sequentibus ex prologo, cum abundent, demendos esse: hos aptius legas, cum de magna matre agit. 50 Quod superest, vacuas auris animumque sagacem: so Bernays in Rhein. Mus. n. f. v p. 559 from the interpr. Verg. in Maii class. auct. t. vir p. 262. Quod superest ut vacuas auris AB. Nice. followed by all the Flor. Camb. Mon. and most mss. and all the old editions omitted u£ and added mihi, Memmius, et te. Lamb. Memmiada. At the end of Junt. is proposed vacuas mihi quaeso Memmius aures Semotus curis: Pont. gives Quod, superest quaeso vacuas mihi Memmius auris. Lach. has rightly seen that our reading implies the loss of one or more verses in which the poet passed from Venus to Memmius: he suggests animumque, age, Memmi, which would complete the sentence in a way : so would corque, inclute Memmi, or the like. 66 tollere. tendere Lamb. ed. 3 Lach. from Nonius 'teste nostris antiquiore'. But where our mss. give, as here, a faultless reading, it seems unocritical to prefer that of such 2 careless writer as Nonius: older and better authorities than he is continually misquote: Seneca in 57 has quoque for quove, Gellius in 304 aut for et, 806 Nonius candenti for dispansae in, 11 18 Lactantius stultas for miseras, 1001 fui-
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