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Nam tribus octenis regia sceptra tulit; Quindecies Domini centenus fluxerat annus, Currebat nonus, cum venit atra dies; Septima ter mensis lux tunc fulgebat Aprilis, Cum clausit summum tanta corona diem. Nulla dedere prius tantum sibi saecula regem Anglia, vix similem posteriora dabunt.
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:
The theory of religion would then be that the crude idea of propitiatory and conciliatory sacrifice would fall to the ground; that to use the inspired words of the old Roman poet "Aptissima quaeque dabunt Di. Carior est illis homo quam sibi;"
The best example of this Graecised metre is the celebrated line "Dabunt malum Metelli | Naevio poetae."
Again in Ep. 1497: Ego extra annum ad habitis tuis litteris quadragesimum; and finally in the dedication of the Eighth Decade to Clement VII.: Septuagesimus quippe annus ætatis, cui nonæ quartæ Februarii anni millesimi quingentesimi vigesimi sexti proxime ruentis dabunt initium, sua mihi spongea memoriam ita confrigando delevit, ut vix e calamo sit lapsa periodus, quando quid egerimsi quis interrogaverit, nescire me profitebor.
'Pro jucundis aptissima quæque dabunt di; carior est illis homo quam sibi. That thought has left me patient, if not glad, in many a bitter hour.... You are never out of my thoughts." And this letter leads me naturally to the second great principle that pervaded all his writings—"the education of individuals."
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