. The grandeur that was Rome; a survey of Roman culture and civilisation:. adeis ? quid luxus, desidiaeque ?haec igitur qui cuncta subegerit, ex animoqueexpulerit dictis, non armis, nonne decebithunc hominem numero diuom dignarier esse?* His doctrine is medicine for the feverish unrest of the day: exit saepe foras magnis ex aedibus illeesse domi quem pertaesum est, subitoque reuentat;quippe foris nihilo melius qui sentiat esse,currit agens mannos ad uillam praecipitanterauxilium tectis quasi ferre ardentibus instans:oscitat extemplo tetigit quom limina uillae * But unless the breast is cleared
. The grandeur that was Rome; a survey of Roman culture and civilisation:. adeis ? quid luxus, desidiaeque ?haec igitur qui cuncta subegerit, ex animoqueexpulerit dictis, non armis, nonne decebithunc hominem numero diuom dignarier esse?* His doctrine is medicine for the feverish unrest of the day: exit saepe foras magnis ex aedibus illeesse domi quem pertaesum est, subitoque reuentat;quippe foris nihilo melius qui sentiat esse,currit agens mannos ad uillam praecipitanterauxilium tectis quasi ferre ardentibus instans:oscitat extemplo tetigit quom limina uillae * But unless the breast is cleared, what battles and dangers must then findtheir way into us in our own despite! What poignant cares inspired by lustthen rend the distrustful man, and then also what mighty fears I and pride,filthy lust, and wantonness! what disasters they occasion, and luxury and allsorts of sloth! He therefore who shall have subdued all these and banishedthem from the mind by words, not arms, shall he not have a just title to boranked among the gods? (V. 43-51, Munros translation.) 140. oa, wg ^~n,/^..:Y:ii^w-; LAST CENTURY OF THE REPUBLIC aut abit in somnum grauis, atque obliuia quserit,aut etiam properans urbem petit atque se quisque modo fugit . .* He has a compassionate scorn for the mourner: aufer abhinc lacrumas, barathre, et compesce querelas . . cedit enim rerum nouitate extrusa uetustas semper et ex aliis aliud reparare necesse est; nee quisquam in barathrum, nee Tartara deditur alta. materies opus est ut crescant postera seecla; quae tamen omnia te, uita perfuncta, sequentur: nee minus ergo ante haec quam tu cecidere cadentque. sic alid ex alio nunquam desistet oriri; uitaque mancipio nulli datur, omnibus usu. f Death has no sting for him: num quid ibi horribile apparet ? num triste uideturquidquam ? non omni somno securius exstat ? J Lucretius was, of course, set down by Cicero, as was Shake-speare by Dryden, as being rude and unpolished. His poemis indeed sheer didactic
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