...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...

...gerinanae, Phrixe, querenda twae. Über Varro näheres bei Teuffei, RL. I 434ff. Ribbeck, RD. Ia 346ff. 87 Aureaque Aesonio terga petita duci? Carmina sublimis...peritura Lucreti, Exitio terras cum dabit una dies; 25 Tityrus et segotes Aeneiaque anna legentur, Roma triumphati dum caput orbis erit; Donee erunt ignes...

...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...

...; Ennius arte carens animosique Accius oris casuram millo tempere nomen habent. Varronem primamqne ratem quae nesciet aetas, aureaque Aesonio terga petita...duci ? carmina sublimis tune sunt peritura Lucreti, exilio terras cum dabit una dies ; Tityrus el segetes Aeneiaque arma legenlur, Roma triumphati dum...

...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. VaiTonem pnmamque ratem quae nesciet aetas, aureaque Açsonio terga petita duci ? carmina sublimis...

..."quam, nisi tu dederis, non est habitura salutem"; or in descriptions by Ovid, as in Am. i. 15. 23: carmina sublimis tune sunt peritura Lucreti, exitio terras cum dabit una dies. The imperfect sometimes expresses a contemplated action, eg, Her. ii. 36: "per quod saepe ieras, per...

...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...

...tempore nomen habent. Varronem primamque ratem quae nesciet aetas, aureaque Aesonio terga petita duel ? carmina sublimis tune sunt peritura Lucreti, exitio terras cum dabit una dies ; Tityrus et segetes Aeneiaque arma legentur, Roma triumphati dum caput orbis erit ; donee 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,...