scipiad

Updated: May 1, 2025

Once more and for the last time the poem of Lucretius is resonant with the whole poetic pride and the whole poetic earnestness of the sixth century, in which, amidst the images of the formidable Carthaginian and the glorious Scipiad, the imagination of the poet is more at home than in his own degenerate age.

Theodor Mommsen - The History of Rome (Volumes 1-5)

Once more and for the last time the poem of Lucretius is resonant with the whole poetic pride and the whole poetic earnestness of the sixth century, in which, amidst the images of the formidable Carthaginian and the glorious Scipiad, the imagination of the poet is more at home than in his own degenerate age.

Theodor Mommsen - The History of Rome, Book V : The Establishment of the Military Monarchy