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Virgil is allowed to be a servile copyist, far inferior to Lucretius. Compare Lucr. V. 750 with Georg. It is in the original binding of very solid boards overlaid with stamped vellum, and is still clasped with the original skin and metal. It is a small folio, on very coarse paper, and the only one of my rare classics not in the cleanest condition.
So the theft of the pigeons remained undiscovered, and remains so till this day. If any old Roslyn boy reads this veracious history, he will doubtless be astounded to hear that the burglars on that memorable night were Brio, Pietrie, Graham, and Wildney. "Praepediuntur Crura vacillanti, tardescit lingua, madet mens, Nant oculi." LUCR. iii. 417.
I am so happy, so happy at my freedom and escape. What, ho! waiter! my horse instantly!" Lucr. What has thy father done? Beat. What have I done? Am I not innocent? The Cenci. Tam twilight was darkening slowly over a room of noble dimensions and costly fashion.
One of the books Cic. has in view is no doubt that of Hegesias, a Cyrenaic philosopher, mentioned in Tusc. 1, 84. COMMORANDI ... DIVORSORIUM: 'a hostelry wherein to sojourn'. The idea has been expressed in literature in a thousand ways. Cf. Lucr. 3, 938 cur non ut plenus vitae conviva recedis; Hor. Sat. 1, 1, 118 vita cedat uti conviva satur. Cf.
For nature crescent does not grow alone In thews and bulk, but, as this temple waxes, The inward service of the mind and soul Grows wide withal. Montaigne, II. 12; Florio, 319: The mind is with the body bred we do behold, It jointly growes with it, it waxeth old. Lucr. xliii. 450. 83: Goethe's Faust.
The indicative might have been expected; the expression almost = consecuti sumus, consecutus aliquis est. Roby, 1546; G. 252, Rem. 3; H. 486, III. VIRTUTE ET RECTE FACTIS: the same opinion is enforced in Tusc. 1, 109. QUID SEQUATUR: 'the future'; cf. Lucr. 1, 459 transactum quid sit in aevo, Tum quae res instet, quid porro deinde sequatur.
LUCR. De Rerum Nat. ii. 78. Life and Correspondence of Dr. Priestley, by J. T. Rutt. Vol. I. p. 50. Autobiography, s.s. 100, 101. See The Life of Mary Anne Schimmelpenninck. Mrs. I can never forget the impression produced on me by the serene expression of his countenance. He, indeed, seemed present with God by recollection, and with man by cheerfulness.
Quoi quisque fere studio devinctus adhaeret Aut quibus i rebus multum sumus ante morati Atque in quo ratione fuit contenta magis mens, In somnis cadem plerumque videmur obire. LUCR., iv. 959. What studies please, what most delight, And fill men's thoughts, they dream them o'er at night.
What should an unhappy prince do in such ticklish circumstances as these? He tried in vain the poet's never- failing receipt of corpora quaeque, for "Idque petit corpus mens unde est saucia amore; Unde feritur, eo tendit, gestitque coire." Lucr.
It appears in the well-known epitaph said to have been written by himself, also in the lines written against him by the family poet of the Metelli: 'malum dabunt Metelli Naevio poetae'. The name poeta was new in Naevius' time and was just displacing the old Latin name vates; see Munro on Lucr. 1, 102. PROVENIEBANT etc.: the same metre as above, divided thus by Lahmeyer:
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