...its historical philosophy, seems more congenial to poetry than any of its contemporary systems.'* ' Carmina sublimis tune sunt peritura Lucreti | exitio terras cum dabit una dies,' says Ovid,3 and posterity has agreed with him in praising the sublimity of the ' history of the speculative...

...passage. With that exception, apparently no one appreciated Lucretius until Ovid wrote his enthusiastic "carmina sublimis tune sunt peritura Lucreti, exitio terras cum dabit una dies." Horace echoes various phrases, but nowhere mentions the poet himself. Quintilian (10. i. 87) has a...

...vivent et meretrix blanda, Menandros erit; Ennius arte carens animosique Accius oris casurum null o tempore nomen habent. 20 Varronem primamque ratem...Lucreti, exitio terras cum dabit una dies ; Tityrus et segetes Aeneïaque arma legentur, 25 Roma triumphati dum caput orbis erit; donec erunt ignes arcusque...

...: with this group of representative characters "5. 3] [i5. 27 vivent et meretrix blanda, Menandros erit. Ennius arte carens animosique Accius oris casurum nullo tempore nomen habent. Varronem primamque ratem quae nesciet aetas aureaque Aesonio tcrga petita-duci? carmina sublimis tunc...

...footsteps. There were some, Tacitus says, who preferred him to the later poet. Ovid is more outspoken : ' Carmina sublimis tune sunt peritura Lucreti, Exitio terras cum dabit una dies.' ft • II. 317. t ». 114. J ii. 374. § iv. 136. || i. 312. IT i. 305 ; vi. 470. ** iii. 642. tt Virgil,...

...multosque per annos sustentata ruet moles et machina mundi ', to which passage Ovid alludes Am. I. 15. 23 ' carmina sublimis tune sunt peritura Lucreti, exitio terras cum dabit una dies ' ; and in M. XII. 39 ' terrasque fretumque caelestesque plagas, triplicis confinia mundi '. FI 105...

...semper Aratus erit. dum fallax seruus, durus pater, inproba lena uiuent et meretrix blanda, Menandros erit. Ennius arte carens animosique Accius oris casurum...nullo tempore nomen habent. 20 Varronem primamque ratern quae nesciet aetas aureaque Aesonio terga petita duci? 5 nee me uerbosas P<-> : non me uerbosas...

...of this catalogue is Ov. Am. I 15, 19 ff. Ennius arte carens...casurum nullo tempore nomen (habet). Varronem primamque ratem quae nesciet aetas, aureaque Aesonio terga petita duci? Carmina sublimis tunc sunt peritura Lucreti exitio terras cum 21 Cornelissen (285) illogically argues that 74 is an...

...semper Aratus erit. dum fallax servus. durus pater. improba lena vivent et meretrix blanda. Menandros erit. Ennius arte carens animosique Accius oris casurum...nesciet aetas aureaque Aesonio terga petita duci? [No loss will come to Sophoclean tragedy: as long as there are sun and moon. there will always be Aratus....

...missos perdidit una dies' (cf. Pont. 1.2.4, Silius Pun. 2.5), and of Lucretius' work, Amores 1.15.23-4: 'carmina sublimis tune sunt peritura Lucreti | exitio terras cum dabit una dies'. Cornelius Severus uses it of the death of Cicero (ap. Sen. Suas. 6.26): 'abstulit una dies aevi decus...