. T. Lucretius Carus Of the nature of things : in six books. Illustrated with proper and useful notes. Adorned with copper-plates, curiously engraved by Guernier, and others .. . s, and rotting with the Corruptionof the Limbs ; there was nothing but Skin uponthe Bones, and that putrefied with eating Ulcers,and buried in Naftinefs. And laftly, Death had filled all the Templesof the Gods with dead Bodies, all the Shrines of theceleftial Deities were loaded every where with Car-cafes. The Priefts furnifried thefe Places withfuch wretched Guefls. Nor was there any Reve-rence paid to the Gods^ thei
. T. Lucretius Carus Of the nature of things : in six books. Illustrated with proper and useful notes. Adorned with copper-plates, curiously engraved by Guernier, and others .. . s, and rotting with the Corruptionof the Limbs ; there was nothing but Skin uponthe Bones, and that putrefied with eating Ulcers,and buried in Naftinefs. And laftly, Death had filled all the Templesof the Gods with dead Bodies, all the Shrines of theceleftial Deities were loaded every where with Car-cafes. The Priefts furnifried thefe Places withfuch wretched Guefls. Nor was there any Reve-rence paid to the Gods^ their Divinities were nomore regarded -, for the prefent Calamity over-came every thing. Nor did the People any longer obferve thatCuftom of Sepulture they had ever followed,which was, to bury their Dead in the City •, theywere all diftracted and amazed, and every one ? buried 330 T. Lucretii Qui/que fuum pro re ccjifortem mceftus humabat, Multaque vis fubita, & paupertas horrida fuos confanguineos allena rogorum 1281Infuper inftrutla ingenti clamore locabant,Subdebantque facets, multo cum /anguine feepeRixantes poiius quam corpora defer Book VI. Of the Nature of Things. buried his wretched Friend as the Exigency ofThings would permit. And fudden Rage, and dreadful Poverty,drove Men into many outrageous Actions: Theywould place their Relations, with violent Outcries,upon the Funeral Piles that were raifed for others,and light the Fire ; and often quarrel, with muchLofs of Blood, rather than forfake the Bodies oftheir Friends. 33» FINIS.
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