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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    terrifice& morbo adfectis, somnoque sepultis, cernere uti videamur eos audireque coram, morte obita quorum tellus amplectitur ossa. 135 nec me animi fallit Graiorum obscura reperta diffieile inlustrare Latinis versibus esse, multa novis verbis praesertim eum sit agendum propter egestatem linguae et rerum novitatem; sed tua me virtus tamen et sperata voluptas 140 suavis amicitiae quemvis sufferre laborem suadet et inducit noctes vigilare serenas quaerentem dictis quibus et quo carmine demum clara tuae possim praepandere lumina menti, res quibus occultas penitus convisere possis. 145 Hune igitur terrorem animi tenebrasque necessest non radii solis neque lucida tela diei discutiant, sed naturae species ratioque. principium cuius hine nobis exordia sumet, nullam rem e nilo gigni divinitus umquam. I50 quippe ita formido mortalis continet omnis, quod multa in terris fieri caeloque tuentur quorum operum causas nulla ratione videre possunt ae fieri divino numine rentur. 156 quas ob res ubi viderimus nil posse creari I55 de nilo, tum quod sequimur iam rectius inde perspiciemus, et unde queat res quaeque creari I55 et quo quaeque modo fiant opera sine divom. 159 Nam si de nilo fierent, ex omnibu' rebus omne genus nasci posset, nil semine egeret. 160 e mare primum homines, e terra posset oriri squamigerum genus et volucres erumpere caelo; armenta atque aliae pecudes, genus omne ferarum, incerto partu culta ae deserta tenerent. Coepisset. 130 tum Flor. 25 and 31 Cgmb. p. m. Mar. for tunc. 141 quemvis sufferre Flor. 32 in margin, Heinsius in ms. notes, and Faber for quemwis efferre. [So perhaps Cic. epist. vxaz 1 2 we should read sermomes suppressit: expressit M.] Dion. Cat. distich. ux 6 has quemvis sufferre laborem, perhaps taken from this. — 155 —158 Mar. Junt. and margin of Camb. have these vs. in right order, and et for ut in 157. Avancius et, and at end of his edition of Catull. 1502 has rightorder. et Pont.also. 161—164 are rightly thus punctuated by Lach. I find however from his proof sheets that until the final revision he had with Wak. put a stop after
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