New Light Upon LucretiusUniversity Press, 1926 - 16 pages |
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armed trainers art of war atque beasts in warfare belli biiugo blood the weapons boues Lucae ferro Bulls would toss Carthaginian copper crazy logic Daremberg death of Lucretius Deplexae different worlds Diffugiebat enim uarium disorder elephants employment of wild enemy enim uarium genus Epicureanism Epicurus essayed to send excrescence facere fera facta ferro male mactae flight frightful crests genus omne ferarum H. A. J. Munro Hannibal horses insanity Julius Cæsar Latin lines lion of Rameses Lucae ferro male Lucan kine Lucanian Lucretian minitanti mounting in arms multa dedere mundis uaria ratione Natural Philosophy nec poterant Nisbet nunc saepe boues particular earth passage Plutarch poem Poeni poet Pyrrhus quae quam rejected by Lachmann Roman saepe boues Lucae single and particular terram throughout the universe tinguentes sanguine tusk ualidis uaria ratione creatis uariis mundis uaria uarium genus omne UNIVERSITY OF MICHIGAN verse weapons broken wild beasts wild boars wounds
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Page 3 - serebant 1290 et pecus atque agros adimebant ; nam facile ollis omnia cedebant armatis nuda et inerma. inde minutatim processit ferreus ensis uersaque in obprobrium species est falcis ahenae, et ferro coepere solum proscindere terrae 1295 exaequataque sunt creperi certamina belli, et prius est armatum in equi conscendere costas et moderarier
Page 3 - in obprobrium species est falcis ahenae, et ferro coepere solum proscindere terrae 1295 exaequataque sunt creperi certamina belli, et prius est armatum in equi conscendere costas et moderarier hune frenis dextraque uigere quam biiugo curru
Page 6 - But men chose thus to act not so much in any hope of victory as from a wish to give the enemy something to rue at the cost of their own lives, when they mistrusted their numbers and were in want of arms. (1350—1360) A garment
Page 12 - in this world, it is not easy to affirm for certain ; but what can be and is done throughout the universe in various worlds formed on various plans, this I teach, and I go on to set forth several causes which may exist throughout the universe for the motion of stars ; one of which however must
Page 3 - turbare cateruas. sic alia ex alio peperit discordia tristis, 1305 horribile humanis quod gentibus esset in armis, inque dies belli terroribus addidit augmen. (1308—1349).
Page 16 - and describe the brocaded dames and courtly manners as though she had been bred among them, in the best style of the Old Comedy." Quoted by Nisbet, Ie above, p. 101.
Page 3 - templare pericia et biiugos prius est quam bis coniungere binos 1300 et quam falciferos armatum escendere currus. inde boues Lucas turrito corpore, taetras, anguimanus, belli docuerunt uolnera Poeni sufferre et magnas
Page 15 - my Memmius in a train Of flowery clauses onward to the proof That Gods there are, and deathless. Meant ? I meant ? I have forgotten what I meant. My mind Stumbles, and all my faculties are
Page 12 - of stars ; one of which however must in this world also be the cause that imparts lively motion to the signs ; but to dictate which, of
Page 12 - quid in hoc mundo sit eorum poneré cerium difficile est ; sed quid possit fiatque per omne in uariis mundis uaria ratione creatis id doceo plurisque sequor disponere causas