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Titus Lucretius Carus Of the Nature of Things [De Rerum Natura] Titus Lucretius Carus A metrical translation by William Ellery Leonard https://
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Titus Lucretius Carus T C Book I 1. Proem 2. Substance is Eternal 3. The Void 4. Nothing Exists Per Se Except Atoms and the Void 5.
Titus Lucretius Carus 1. Proem 2. Great Meteorological Phenomena, Etc. 3. Extraordinary and Paradoxical Telluric Phenomena 4. The Plague Athens ht
Titus Lucretius Carus BI P Mother of Rome, delight of Gods and men, Dear Venus that beneath the gliding stars Makest to
Titus Lucretius Carus O'ermastered by the eternal wound of love -- And there, with eyes and full throat backward thrown, Gazing, my
Titus Lucretius Carus I may at last most gloriously uncloud For thee the light beyond, wherewith to view The core of being
Titus Lucretius Carus Can they concoct to rout thy plans of life, And trouble all thy fortunes with base fears. I own
Titus Lucretius Carus Fear holds dominion over mortality Only because, seeing in land and sky So much the cause whereof no wise
Titus Lucretius Carus Wonders unheard of; for, by Nature, each Slowly increases from its lawful seed, And through that increase shall conserve
Titus Lucretius Carus That wastes with eld the works along the world, Destroy entire, consuming matter all, Whence then may Venus back
Titus Lucretius Carus With warm new milk. Thus naught of what so seems Perishes utterly, since Nature ever Upbuilds one thing from
Titus Lucretius Carus With eyes we view not burning heats, nor cold, Nor are we wont men's voices to behold. Yet
Titus Lucretius Carus Would work on all and at an times the same. Thus naught could evermore push forth and go, Since
Titus Lucretius Carus And straightway open sudden liquid paths, Because the fishes leave behind them room To which at once the yielding
Titus Lucretius Carus This I can promise, Memmius, for a fact: Such copious drafts my singing tongue shall pour From the large
Titus Lucretius Carus Remainder none to fall at any time Under our senses, nor be seized and seen By any man through
Titus Lucretius Carus An accident of body, and of place Wherein all things go on. C A Bodies, again, Are partly primal
Titus Lucretius Carus Can be naught else than matter in union knit. Thus matter, consisting of a solid frame, Hath power to
Titus Lucretius Carus By now the bodies of matter would have been So far reduced by breakings in old days That from
Titus Lucretius Carus And made to show unconquerable strength. Again, since all things kind by kind obtain Fixed bounds of growing and
Titus Lucretius Carus Moreover, were there not a minimum, The smallest bodies would have infinites, Since then a half-of-half could
Titus Lucretius Carus Milder, again, when severed or dispersed -- And more than this thou canst conceive of naught That from such causes
Titus Lucretius Carus And are thereafter nothing like to fire Nor whatso else has power to send its bodies With impact touching
Titus Lucretius Carus Charybdis; and here Aetna rumbles threats To gather anew such furies of its flames As with its force anew
Titus Lucretius Carus Thou seest how far each doctrine stands from truth. And, next, these bodies are among themselves In many ways
Titus Lucretius Carus Wherefore, since those things, mentioned heretofore, Suffer a changed state, they must derive From others ever unconvertible, Le
Titus Lucretius Carus Have power to work more combinations still, Whence divers things can be produced in turn. Now let us also
Titus Lucretius Carus Of bones, of thews, of ichor and of blood. Again, if all the bodies which upgrow From earth, are
Titus Lucretius Carus Stored up within the forests, then the fires Could not for any time be kept unseen, But would be
Titus Lucretius Carus Next, since, concerning themes so dark, I frame Songs so pellucid, touching all throughout Even with the Muses' charm --
Titus Lucretius Carus Can follow it no longer. Now because Confess we must there's naught beside the sum, There's no
Titus Lucretius Carus Forevermore; out of all regions, even Out of the pit below, from forth the vast, Are hurtled bodies evermore
Titus Lucretius Carus This sum of things established is create, By which, moreover, through the mighty years, It is preserved, when once
Titus Lucretius Carus The ponderous bodies which be under earth Do all press upwards and do come to rest Upon the earth,
Titus Lucretius Carus (Because the heat, from out the centre flying, All gathers there), and how, again, the boughs Upon the tree-
Titus Lucretius Carus B II P 'Tis sweet, when, down the mighty main, the winds Roll up its waste of waters, from
Titus Lucretius Carus Our frames, with no vast outlay -- most of all If the weather is laughing and the times of the
Titus Lucretius Carus Now by what motions the begetting bodies Of the world-stuff beget the varied world, And then forever resolve
Titus Lucretius Carus (As amply shown and proved by reason sure) Space has no bound nor measure, and extends Unmetered forth in
Titus Lucretius Carus For thou wilt mark here many a speck, impelled By viewless blows, to change its little course, And beaten
Titus Lucretius Carus The voices onward to the stars of heaven, And hither and thither darts the cavalry, And of a sudden
Titus Lucretius Carus In such adjustment to our human ways, Can nature change the seasons of the years, And bring to birth
Titus Lucretius Carus That all the weight within them downward bears Through empty void. Well, in like manner, flames Ought also to
Titus Lucretius Carus On any side, at any time, to aught Oppose resistance, but will ever yield, True to its bent of
Titus Lucretius Carus First from the spirit's will, whence at the last 'Tis given forth through joints and body entire. Quite
Titus Lucretius Carus For naught exists outside, to which can flee Out of the world matter of any kind, Nor forth from
Titus Lucretius Carus And, stopping short, filleth the leafy lanes With her complaints; and oft she seeks again Within the stall, pierced
Titus Lucretius Carus So suddenly sundered one from other, and seep, One through each several hole of anything. And note, besides, that
Titus Lucretius Carus Be't that something in-from-outward works, Be't that something in the body born Wounds, or delighteth
Titus Lucretius Carus The primal germs of nauseating brine, Since cling the rough more readily in earth. Lastly, whatso thou markest to
Titus Lucretius Carus The peacock's golden generations, stained With spotted gaieties, would lie o'erthrown By some new colour of new
Titus Lucretius Carus For though thou view'st some beasts to be more rare, And mark'st in them a less prolific
Titus Lucretius Carus Are infinite in any class thou wilt -- From whence is furnished matter for all things. Nor can those motions
Titus Lucretius Carus Seated in chariot o'er the realms of air To drive her team of lions, teaching thus That the
Titus Lucretius Carus In games of arms and leap in measure round With bloody mirth and by their nodding shake The terrorizing
Titus Lucretius Carus All live their lives with face and form unlike, Keeping the parents' nature, parents' habits, Which, kind by kind,
Titus Lucretius Carus All are from fixed seed and fixed dam Engendered and so function as to keep Throughout their growth their
Titus Lucretius Carus And hold all heaven from the lands away. A S Q Now come, this wisdom by my sweet toil
Titus Lucretius Carus From which all kinds of colours they beget And vary (by reason that ever it matters much With what
Titus Lucretius Carus 'Tis thine to know they are not clothed with colour -- Truly, what kind of colour could there be In
Titus Lucretius Carus From out their colour, long ere they depart Back to the old primordials of things. And, last, since thou
Titus Lucretius Carus Now, too: whate'er we see possessing sense Must yet confessedly be stablished all From elements insensate. And those
Titus Lucretius Carus By the new factor, then combine anew In such a way as genders living things. Next, they who deem
Titus Lucretius Carus The earth is sodden, sure, sensations all Can out of non-sensations be begot. But if one say that
Titus Lucretius Carus They be already well-nigh sped and so Pass quite away? Again, since pain is there Where bodies of
Titus Lucretius Carus Of intermixed seeds quite void of sense? I W Once more, we all from seed celestial spring, To all
Titus Lucretius Carus The things themselves must likewise changed be. Now to true reason give thy mind for us. Since here strange
Titus Lucretius Carus Bottomless, there in many a manner fly, Bestirred in everlasting motion there), That only this one earth and sky
Titus Lucretius Carus Wherefore confess we must on grounds the same That earth, sun, moon, and ocean, and all else, Exist not
Titus Lucretius Carus The moist to moist retires; earth gets increase From earthy body; and fires, as on a forge, Beat out
Titus Lucretius Carus 'Tis food must prop and give support to all -- But to no purpose, since nor veins suffice To hold
Titus Lucretius Carus B III P O thou who first uplifted in such dark So clear a torch aloft, who first shed
Titus Lucretius Carus Nature, so plain and manifest at last, Hath been on every side laid bare to man! And since I'
Titus Lucretius Carus For ever we see fierce Want and foul Disgrace Dislodged afar from secure life and sweet, Like huddling Shapes
Titus Lucretius Carus Of one whole breathing creature. [But some hold] That sense of mind is in no fixed part seated, But
Titus Lucretius Carus Whate'er it be, they're welcome to it -- thou, Hearken my other maxims. Mind and soul, I say,
Titus Lucretius Carus Suffers the mind and with our body feels. If the dire speed of spear that cleaves the bones And
Titus Lucretius Carus And mind and soul retire, thou markest there From the whole body nothing ta'en in form, Nothing in
Titus Lucretius Carus The vitals all begin to feel, and last To bones and marrow the sensation comes -- Pleasure or torment. Nor
Titus Lucretius Carus From all of them one nature be produced, Lest heat and wind apart, and air apart, Make sense to
Titus Lucretius Carus So then this soul is kept by all the body, Itself the body's guard, and source of weal:
Titus Lucretius Carus Is -- a hard saying; since the feel in eyes Says the reverse. For this itself draws on And forces
Titus Lucretius Carus And ere, in pounding with such gaps between, They clash, combine and leap apart in turn. But mind is
Titus Lucretius Carus Made up from atoms smaller much than those Of water's liquid damp, or fog, or smoke, So in
Titus Lucretius Carus Partaker is of death; for pain and disease Are both artificers of death -- as well We've learned by
Titus Lucretius Carus And have a builded highway. He becomes Mere fool, since energy of mind and soul Confounded is, and, as
Titus Lucretius Carus Thus mind alone can never be, without The body and the man himself, which seems, As 'twere the vessel
Titus Lucretius Carus The soul out-filtering even through the frame, And through the body's every winding way And orifice? And
Titus Lucretius Carus The feet, the hands, instead of cleaving still To one sole seat, to one fixed haunt, the breast, If
Titus Lucretius Carus Mounting again and on. A third attempts With leg dismembered to arise and stand, Whilst, on the ground hard
Titus Lucretius Carus Dispersed in the winds, or, gathered in a mass From all its parts, sink down to brutish death, Since
Titus Lucretius Carus With body fused -- for what will seep and soak Will be dissolved and will therefore die. For just as
Titus Lucretius Carus To which to enter in, 'tis plain they can't. Then, souls for self no frames nor bodies make,
Titus Lucretius Carus The craved flower of life, unless it be The body's colleague in its origins? Or what's the
Titus Lucretius Carus Then, again, Whatever abides eternal must indeed Either repel all strokes, because 'tis made Of solid body, and permit
Titus Lucretius Carus We felt no touch of ill, when all sides round To battle came the Carthaginian host, And the times,
Titus Lucretius Carus Nothing for us there is to dread in death, No wretchedness for him who is no more, The same
Titus Lucretius Carus But add not, "yet no longer unto thee Remains a remnant of desire for them" If this they only
Titus Lucretius Carus That thou indulgest in too sickly plaints? Why this bemoaning and beweeping death? For if thy life aforetime and
Titus Lucretius Carus Of Tartarus, the black. For stuff must be, That thus the after-generations grow -- Though these, their life completed,
Titus Lucretius Carus To endure a world of toil, O this it is To shove with shoulder up the hill a stone
Titus Lucretius Carus Trampling upon it with his cavalry, The bellowings of ocean -- poured his soul From dying body, as his light
Titus Lucretius Carus Forgetfulness, or maybe bustles about And makes for town again. In such a way Each human flees himself -- a
Titus Lucretius Carus B IV P I wander afield, thriving in sturdy thought, Through unpathed haunts of the Pierides, Trodden by step
Titus Lucretius Carus But since I've taught already of what sort The seeds of all things are, and how distinct In
Titus Lucretius Carus The breres augmented with their flying spoils: Since such takes place, 'tis likewise certain too That tenuous images from
Titus Lucretius Carus But contrariwise, when such a tenuous film Of outside colour is thrown off, there's naught Can rend it,
Titus Lucretius Carus But lest Haply thou holdest that those images Which come from objects are the sole that flit, Others indeed
Titus Lucretius Carus So many beams to keep all things so full Of light incessant; thus, on grounds the same, From things
Titus Lucretius Carus With texture of such rareness that they can Through objects whatsoever penetrate And ooze, as 'twere, through intervening air.
Titus Lucretius Carus Borne streamingly along, and sent about To every region round; and nature grants Nor rest nor respite of the
Titus Lucretius Carus When the wind beats upon us stroke by stroke And when the sharp cold streams, 'tis not our wont
Titus Lucretius Carus By means of the two airs. Now, in the glass The right part of our members is observed Upon
Titus Lucretius Carus Further, our eye-balls tend to flee the bright And shun to gaze thereon; the sun even blinds, If
Titus Lucretius Carus Makes blunt the idol of the angle's point By numerous collidings. When thuswise The angles of the tower
Titus Lucretius Carus Seem fleeing fast astern, past which we urge The ship and fly under the bellying sails. The stars, each
Titus Lucretius Carus We cast our eyes across, all objects seem Thus to be onward borne and flow along In the same
Titus Lucretius Carus To cross the plains afoot, and hear new sounds, Though still the austere silence of the night Abides around
Titus Lucretius Carus The soft, the cold, the hot apart, apart All divers hues and whatso things there be Conjoined with hues.
Titus Lucretius Carus With their own body. For confess we must Even voice and sound to be corporeal, Because they're able
Titus Lucretius Carus For then the voice conserves its own formation, Conserves its shape. But if the space between Be longer than
Titus Lucretius Carus And wonders of this ilk they love to tell, Lest they be thought to dwell in lonely spots And
Titus Lucretius Carus The bodies of the oozy flavour, then Delightfully they touch, delightfully They treat all spots, around the wet and
Titus Lucretius Carus And certain of them many-angled too In many modes. For, as the combination And motion of their divers
Titus Lucretius Carus Forescents afar the odour of mankind. Thus, diversly to divers ones is given Peculiar smell that leadeth each along
Titus Lucretius Carus Thou mayest see that odour is create Of larger primal germs than voice, because It enters not through stony
Titus Lucretius Carus (As earlier I showed) one subtle image, Compounded, moves by its one blow the mind, Itself so subtle and
Titus Lucretius Carus It happens also that there is supplied Sometimes an image not of kind the same; But what before was
Titus Lucretius Carus Sharply alone the ones it strains to see; And thus the rest do perish one and all, Save those
Titus Lucretius Carus With hand to hand, and rending of the joints, And fouling of the limbs with gore, was there, O
Titus Lucretius Carus From off our body, how the hunger-pang It, too, appeased. Now, how it comes that we, Whene'er
Titus Lucretius Carus And frees the breast from cares of mind, I'll tell In verses sweeter than they many are; Even
Titus Lucretius Carus And primal elements, there comes to pass By slow degrees, along our members then, A kind of overthrow; for
Titus Lucretius Carus Attention undivided, still they keep (As oft we note), even when they've ceased to grasp Those games with
Titus Lucretius Carus Raise a wild cry as if their throats were cut Even then and there. And many wrestle on And
Titus Lucretius Carus And stirs amain the genitals of man. The goaded regions swell with seed, and then Comes the delight to
Titus Lucretius Carus Canst lead elsewhere the tumults of thy mind. Nor doth that man who keeps away from love Yet lack
Titus Lucretius Carus By merely gazing on the bodies, nor They cannot with their palms and fingers rub Aught from each tender
Titus Lucretius Carus With rarest cloth and viands, are prepared -- And games of chance, and many a drinking cup, And unguents, crowns
Titus Lucretius Carus One of the Graces sure"; the big and bulky O she's "an Admiration, imposante"; The stuttering and tongue-
Titus Lucretius Carus And thus allow for poor mortality. Nor sighs the woman always with feigned love, Who links her body round
Titus Lucretius Carus Engenders shapes, and diversely brings back Ancestral features, voices too, and hair. A female generation rises forth From seed
Titus Lucretius Carus Can bulwark their old age with goodly sons. A matter of great moment 'tis in truth, That seeds may
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Titus Lucretius Carus BV P O WHO can build with puissant breast a song Worthy the majesty of these great finds? Or
Titus Lucretius Carus Of Thracian Diomedes breathing fire From out their nostrils off along the zones Bistonian and Ismarian? And the Snake,
Titus Lucretius Carus Inexorable decrees -- how (as we've found), In class of mortal objects, o'er all else, The mind exists
Titus Lucretius Carus Longer by empty promises -- behold, Before all else, the seas, the lands, the sky: O Memmius, their threefold nature,
Titus Lucretius Carus There to put out the splendid sun of heaven, Branding with mortal talk immortal things -- Though these same things
Titus Lucretius Carus Wherefore, besides, also their seats must be Unlike these seats of ours -- even subtle too, As meet for subtle
Titus Lucretius Carus Could thus produce, if nature's self had not Given example for creating all? For in such wise primordials
Titus Lucretius Carus Are now in leaf, are now in blossom all, Either the skiey sun with baneful heats Parches, or sudden
Titus Lucretius Carus Our world consumed and begot again, 'Tis mine to know that also sky above And earth beneath began of
Titus Lucretius Carus Through all the lands. The brine is filtered off, And then the liquid stuff seeps back again And all
Titus Lucretius Carus Do hurry in like manner to supply With ministering heat new light amain; Are all alive to quiver with
Titus Lucretius Carus Besides all this, If there had been no origin-in-birth Of lands and sky, and they had ever
Titus Lucretius Carus Again, Whatever abides eternal must indeed Either repel all strokes, because 'tis made Of solid body, and permit no
Titus Lucretius Carus Seest not that there may be for them an end Of the long strife? -- Or when the skiey sun
Titus Lucretius Carus When all that force of water-stuff which forth From out the infinite had risen up Did now retire,
Titus Lucretius Carus And weights, and blows, encounterings, and motions, Because, by reason of their forms unlike And varied shapes, they could
Titus Lucretius Carus Into a dome, and, far and wide diffused On unto every region on all sides, Thus hedged all else
Titus Lucretius Carus And each more lighter than the next below; And ether, most light and liquid of the three, Floats on
Titus Lucretius Carus For they cohere together with common roots, Conjoined both, even from their earliest age, In linked unison. Aye, seest
Titus Lucretius Carus In divers worlds on divers plan create, This only do I show, and follow on To assign unto the
Titus Lucretius Carus Only the least, when more or less away, So long as still they bicker clear, and still Their glow'
Titus Lucretius Carus For these affairs. Yet chief in likelihood Seemeth the doctrine which the holy thought Of great Democritus lays down:
Titus Lucretius Carus But night o'erwhelms the lands with vasty murk Either when sun, after his diurnal course, Hath walked the
Titus Lucretius Carus Likewise, days may wax Whilst the nights wane, and daylight minished be Whilst nights do take their augmentations, Either
Titus Lucretius Carus She hath with full effulgence gleamed abroad, And, at her rising as she soars above, Hath there observed his
Titus Lucretius Carus The winged harbinger, steps on before, And hard on Zephyr's foot-prints Mother Flora, Sprinkling the ways before
Titus Lucretius Carus And still, if moon herself refulgent be With her own sheen, why could she not at times In some
Titus Lucretius Carus How merited is that adopted name Of earth -- "The Mother!"-- since from out the earth Are all begotten. And
Titus Lucretius Carus She ceased, like to a woman worn by eld. For lapsing aeons change the nature of The whole wide
Titus Lucretius Carus Perforce there perished many a stock, unable By propagation to forge a progeny. For whatsoever creatures thou beholdest Breathin
Titus Lucretius Carus Now weak through lapsing life, do fail with age, Lo, only then doth youth with flowering years Begin for
Titus Lucretius Carus Have been together knit; because, indeed, The divers kinds of grasses and the grains And the delightsome trees -- which
Titus Lucretius Carus So, too, they sought the grottos of the Nymphs -- The woodland haunts discovered as they ranged -- From forth of
Titus Lucretius Carus Wildered by wild misgiving, lest a night Eternal should possess the lands, with light Of sun withdrawn forever. But
Titus Lucretius Carus B C Afterwards, When huts they had procured and pelts and fire, And when the woman, joined unto the
Titus Lucretius Carus Against the trunks. And of these causes, either May well have given to mortal men the fire. Next, food
Titus Lucretius Carus The narrow path of man's ambition; Since all their wisdom is from others' lips, And all they seek
Titus Lucretius Carus And need and use did mould the names of things, About in same wise as the lack-speech years
Titus Lucretius Carus Are wont dissimilar and divers sounds To rouse from in them, when there's fear or pain, And when
Titus Lucretius Carus Flourish in midst of great affairs of state And midst great centres of man's civic life, The rites
Titus Lucretius Carus O humankind unhappy! -- when it ascribed Unto divinities such awesome deeds, And coupled thereto rigours of fierce wrath! What
Titus Lucretius Carus The heavy time be now at hand to pay? When, too, fierce force of fury-winds at sea Sweepeth
Titus Lucretius Carus Into the hollow places of the ground. And when men saw the cooled lumps anon To shine with splendour-
Titus Lucretius Carus Another's flocks and fields. For unto them, Thus armed, all things naked of defence Readily yielded. Then by
Titus Lucretius Carus And with those powerful fangs and hooked claws Fasten upon them. Bulls would toss their friends, And trample under
Titus Lucretius Carus And sounding yarn-beams. And nature forced the men, Before the woman kind, to work the wool: For all
Titus Lucretius Carus And woodsy meadows, through the untrod haunts Of shepherd folk and spots divinely still. Thus time draws forward each
Titus Lucretius Carus Fell into new contempt the pelts of beasts -- Erstwhile a robe of honour, which, I guess, Aroused in those
Titus Lucretius Carus Sailings on the seas, Tillings of fields, walls, laws, and arms, and roads, Dress and the like, all prizes,
Titus Lucretius Carus B VI P 'Twas Athens first, the glorious in name, That whilom gave to hapless sons of men The
Titus Lucretius Carus Should sally to each combat. And he proved That mostly vainly doth the human race Roll in its bosom
Titus Lucretius Carus Observed o'erhead on the ethereal coasts), Again are hurried back unto the fears Of old religion and adopt
Titus Lucretius Carus How it hath speeded forth from thence amain -- Whereof nowise the causes do men know, And think divinities are
Titus Lucretius Carus From whence that dry sound grateth on our ears, So long drawn-out, until the clouds have passed From
Titus Lucretius Carus As iron, white from the hot furnaces, Sizzles, when speedily we've plunged its glow Down the cold water.
Titus Lucretius Carus Just as thou seest how motion will o'erheat And set ablaze all objects -- verily A leaden ball, hurtling
Titus Lucretius Carus And a resplendent. And, indeed, they must Even from the light of sun unto themselves Take multitudinous seeds, and
Titus Lucretius Carus With his hot coruscations: so much more Agile and overpowering is this force. ...... Now in what manner engendered are
Titus Lucretius Carus To shut the round sun off. Nor could the clouds, As on they come, engulf with rain so vast
Titus Lucretius Carus By burst of cloud and by the hurricane, What time the thunder-clap, from burning bolt That cracks the
Titus Lucretius Carus Upon its course already kindled with fire, It yet arriveth warmed and mixed with heat. And, now, the speed
Titus Lucretius Carus Athrough their pores. And much it does transfix, When these primordial atoms of the bolt Have fallen upon the
Titus Lucretius Carus O this it is to mark by what blind force It maketh each effect, and not, O not To
Titus Lucretius Carus That divers strokes have happened at one time? But oft and often hath it come to pass, And often
Titus Lucretius Carus Plunges its whole self into the waters there And rouses all the sea with monstrous roar, Constraining it to
Titus Lucretius Carus That nature lifts from over all the sea Unnumbered particles. Whereby the more 'Tis manifest that many particles Even
Titus Lucretius Carus In like proportion, as our frames increase In like proportion with our blood, as well As sweat or any
Titus Lucretius Carus Which in the winter curbeth everywhere The rivers as they go -- 'tis easy still, Soon to discover and with
Titus Lucretius Carus The headlong winds. Then all the builded houses Above ground -- and the more, the higher up-reared Unto the
Titus Lucretius Carus Then dissipated, like an ague-fit, Through the innumerable pores of earth, To set her all a-shake -- even
Titus Lucretius Carus And many a sea, and far out-spread beneath, Do we behold. Therefore, however slight The portion of wet
Titus Lucretius Carus O not so large a part as is one man Of the whole earth. And plainly if thou viewest
Titus Lucretius Carus Aetnaean. First, the mountain's nature is All under-hollow, propped about, about With caverns of basaltic piers. And,
Titus Lucretius Carus Toward the summer, Nile Waxeth and overfloweth the champaign, Unique in all the landscape, river sole Of the Aegyptians.
Titus Lucretius Carus And, with down-drooping of their delicate necks, Fall headlong into earth, if haply such The nature of the
Titus Lucretius Carus And we have shown before that certain things Be unto certain creatures suited more For ends of life, by
Titus Lucretius Carus When men pursue the veins of silver and gold, With pick-axe probing round the hidden realms Deep in
Titus Lucretius Carus Further, the water of wells is colder then At summer time, because the earth by heat Is rarefied, and
Titus Lucretius Carus Into the earth retires; and this is why The fountain in the daylight gets so cold. Besides, the water'
Titus Lucretius Carus Before 'tis steeped in veritable fire. This, then, we must suppose to come to pass In that spring also.
Titus Lucretius Carus Now will I seek again to bring to mind How porous a body all things have -- a fact Made
Titus Lucretius Carus But hides and flesh it shrivels up and shrinks. The water hardens the iron just off the fire, But
Titus Lucretius Carus As premises prepared, for what remains 'Twill not be hard to render clear account By means of these, and
Titus Lucretius Carus Into the vacuum; for of verity, They're set a-going by poundings from elsewhere, Nor by themselves of
Titus Lucretius Carus Therefore, when iron (which lies between the two) Hath taken in some atoms of the brass, Then do the
Titus Lucretius Carus I will unfold. And, first, I've taught above That seeds there be of many things to us Life-
Titus Lucretius Carus And make it like themselves and alien. Therefore, asudden this devastation strange, This pestilence, upon the waters falls, Or
Titus Lucretius Carus Would roll a noisome stink, as stink to heaven Rotting cadavers flung unburied out. And, lo, thereafter, all the
Titus Lucretius Carus Tainted with colour of crocus and so salt, The cough scarce wheezing through the rattling throat. Aye, and the
Titus Lucretius Carus Outstretched, would yield their breath distressfully For so that Influence of bane would twist Life from their members. Nor
Titus Lucretius Carus Yea, even the sturdy guiders of curved ploughs, Began to sicken, and their bodies would lie Huddled within back-
Titus Lucretius Carus Place their own kin, and thrust the torch beneath Oft brawling with much bloodshed round about Rather than quit
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Titus Lucretius Carus T C Book I 1. Proem 2. Substance is Eternal 3. The Void 4. Nothing Exists Per Se Except Atoms and the Void 5.
Titus Lucretius Carus 1. Proem 2. Great Meteorological Phenomena, Etc. 3. Extraordinary and Paradoxical Telluric Phenomena 4. The Plague Athens ht
Titus Lucretius Carus BI P Mother of Rome, delight of Gods and men, Dear Venus that beneath the gliding stars Makest to
Titus Lucretius Carus O'ermastered by the eternal wound of love -- And there, with eyes and full throat backward thrown, Gazing, my
Titus Lucretius Carus I may at last most gloriously uncloud For thee the light beyond, wherewith to view The core of being
Titus Lucretius Carus Can they concoct to rout thy plans of life, And trouble all thy fortunes with base fears. I own
Titus Lucretius Carus Fear holds dominion over mortality Only because, seeing in land and sky So much the cause whereof no wise
Titus Lucretius Carus Wonders unheard of; for, by Nature, each Slowly increases from its lawful seed, And through that increase shall conserve
Titus Lucretius Carus That wastes with eld the works along the world, Destroy entire, consuming matter all, Whence then may Venus back
Titus Lucretius Carus With warm new milk. Thus naught of what so seems Perishes utterly, since Nature ever Upbuilds one thing from
Titus Lucretius Carus With eyes we view not burning heats, nor cold, Nor are we wont men's voices to behold. Yet
Titus Lucretius Carus Would work on all and at an times the same. Thus naught could evermore push forth and go, Since
Titus Lucretius Carus And straightway open sudden liquid paths, Because the fishes leave behind them room To which at once the yielding
Titus Lucretius Carus This I can promise, Memmius, for a fact: Such copious drafts my singing tongue shall pour From the large
Titus Lucretius Carus Remainder none to fall at any time Under our senses, nor be seized and seen By any man through
Titus Lucretius Carus An accident of body, and of place Wherein all things go on. C A Bodies, again, Are partly primal
Titus Lucretius Carus Can be naught else than matter in union knit. Thus matter, consisting of a solid frame, Hath power to
Titus Lucretius Carus By now the bodies of matter would have been So far reduced by breakings in old days That from
Titus Lucretius Carus And made to show unconquerable strength. Again, since all things kind by kind obtain Fixed bounds of growing and
Titus Lucretius Carus Moreover, were there not a minimum, The smallest bodies would have infinites, Since then a half-of-half could
Titus Lucretius Carus Milder, again, when severed or dispersed -- And more than this thou canst conceive of naught That from such causes
Titus Lucretius Carus And are thereafter nothing like to fire Nor whatso else has power to send its bodies With impact touching
Titus Lucretius Carus Charybdis; and here Aetna rumbles threats To gather anew such furies of its flames As with its force anew
Titus Lucretius Carus Thou seest how far each doctrine stands from truth. And, next, these bodies are among themselves In many ways
Titus Lucretius Carus Wherefore, since those things, mentioned heretofore, Suffer a changed state, they must derive From others ever unconvertible, Le
Titus Lucretius Carus Have power to work more combinations still, Whence divers things can be produced in turn. Now let us also
Titus Lucretius Carus Of bones, of thews, of ichor and of blood. Again, if all the bodies which upgrow From earth, are
Titus Lucretius Carus Stored up within the forests, then the fires Could not for any time be kept unseen, But would be
Titus Lucretius Carus Next, since, concerning themes so dark, I frame Songs so pellucid, touching all throughout Even with the Muses' charm --
Titus Lucretius Carus Can follow it no longer. Now because Confess we must there's naught beside the sum, There's no
Titus Lucretius Carus Forevermore; out of all regions, even Out of the pit below, from forth the vast, Are hurtled bodies evermore
Titus Lucretius Carus This sum of things established is create, By which, moreover, through the mighty years, It is preserved, when once
Titus Lucretius Carus The ponderous bodies which be under earth Do all press upwards and do come to rest Upon the earth,
Titus Lucretius Carus (Because the heat, from out the centre flying, All gathers there), and how, again, the boughs Upon the tree-
Titus Lucretius Carus B II P 'Tis sweet, when, down the mighty main, the winds Roll up its waste of waters, from
Titus Lucretius Carus Our frames, with no vast outlay -- most of all If the weather is laughing and the times of the
Titus Lucretius Carus Now by what motions the begetting bodies Of the world-stuff beget the varied world, And then forever resolve
Titus Lucretius Carus (As amply shown and proved by reason sure) Space has no bound nor measure, and extends Unmetered forth in
Titus Lucretius Carus For thou wilt mark here many a speck, impelled By viewless blows, to change its little course, And beaten
Titus Lucretius Carus The voices onward to the stars of heaven, And hither and thither darts the cavalry, And of a sudden
Titus Lucretius Carus In such adjustment to our human ways, Can nature change the seasons of the years, And bring to birth
Titus Lucretius Carus That all the weight within them downward bears Through empty void. Well, in like manner, flames Ought also to
Titus Lucretius Carus On any side, at any time, to aught Oppose resistance, but will ever yield, True to its bent of
Titus Lucretius Carus First from the spirit's will, whence at the last 'Tis given forth through joints and body entire. Quite
Titus Lucretius Carus For naught exists outside, to which can flee Out of the world matter of any kind, Nor forth from
Titus Lucretius Carus And, stopping short, filleth the leafy lanes With her complaints; and oft she seeks again Within the stall, pierced
Titus Lucretius Carus So suddenly sundered one from other, and seep, One through each several hole of anything. And note, besides, that
Titus Lucretius Carus Be't that something in-from-outward works, Be't that something in the body born Wounds, or delighteth
Titus Lucretius Carus The primal germs of nauseating brine, Since cling the rough more readily in earth. Lastly, whatso thou markest to
Titus Lucretius Carus The peacock's golden generations, stained With spotted gaieties, would lie o'erthrown By some new colour of new
Titus Lucretius Carus For though thou view'st some beasts to be more rare, And mark'st in them a less prolific
Titus Lucretius Carus Are infinite in any class thou wilt -- From whence is furnished matter for all things. Nor can those motions
Titus Lucretius Carus Seated in chariot o'er the realms of air To drive her team of lions, teaching thus That the
Titus Lucretius Carus In games of arms and leap in measure round With bloody mirth and by their nodding shake The terrorizing
Titus Lucretius Carus All live their lives with face and form unlike, Keeping the parents' nature, parents' habits, Which, kind by kind,
Titus Lucretius Carus All are from fixed seed and fixed dam Engendered and so function as to keep Throughout their growth their
Titus Lucretius Carus And hold all heaven from the lands away. A S Q Now come, this wisdom by my sweet toil
Titus Lucretius Carus From which all kinds of colours they beget And vary (by reason that ever it matters much With what
Titus Lucretius Carus 'Tis thine to know they are not clothed with colour -- Truly, what kind of colour could there be In
Titus Lucretius Carus From out their colour, long ere they depart Back to the old primordials of things. And, last, since thou
Titus Lucretius Carus Now, too: whate'er we see possessing sense Must yet confessedly be stablished all From elements insensate. And those
Titus Lucretius Carus By the new factor, then combine anew In such a way as genders living things. Next, they who deem
Titus Lucretius Carus The earth is sodden, sure, sensations all Can out of non-sensations be begot. But if one say that
Titus Lucretius Carus They be already well-nigh sped and so Pass quite away? Again, since pain is there Where bodies of
Titus Lucretius Carus Of intermixed seeds quite void of sense? I W Once more, we all from seed celestial spring, To all
Titus Lucretius Carus The things themselves must likewise changed be. Now to true reason give thy mind for us. Since here strange
Titus Lucretius Carus Bottomless, there in many a manner fly, Bestirred in everlasting motion there), That only this one earth and sky
Titus Lucretius Carus Wherefore confess we must on grounds the same That earth, sun, moon, and ocean, and all else, Exist not
Titus Lucretius Carus The moist to moist retires; earth gets increase From earthy body; and fires, as on a forge, Beat out
Titus Lucretius Carus 'Tis food must prop and give support to all -- But to no purpose, since nor veins suffice To hold
Titus Lucretius Carus B III P O thou who first uplifted in such dark So clear a torch aloft, who first shed
Titus Lucretius Carus Nature, so plain and manifest at last, Hath been on every side laid bare to man! And since I'
Titus Lucretius Carus For ever we see fierce Want and foul Disgrace Dislodged afar from secure life and sweet, Like huddling Shapes
Titus Lucretius Carus Of one whole breathing creature. [But some hold] That sense of mind is in no fixed part seated, But
Titus Lucretius Carus Whate'er it be, they're welcome to it -- thou, Hearken my other maxims. Mind and soul, I say,
Titus Lucretius Carus Suffers the mind and with our body feels. If the dire speed of spear that cleaves the bones And
Titus Lucretius Carus And mind and soul retire, thou markest there From the whole body nothing ta'en in form, Nothing in
Titus Lucretius Carus The vitals all begin to feel, and last To bones and marrow the sensation comes -- Pleasure or torment. Nor
Titus Lucretius Carus From all of them one nature be produced, Lest heat and wind apart, and air apart, Make sense to
Titus Lucretius Carus So then this soul is kept by all the body, Itself the body's guard, and source of weal:
Titus Lucretius Carus Is -- a hard saying; since the feel in eyes Says the reverse. For this itself draws on And forces
Titus Lucretius Carus And ere, in pounding with such gaps between, They clash, combine and leap apart in turn. But mind is
Titus Lucretius Carus Made up from atoms smaller much than those Of water's liquid damp, or fog, or smoke, So in
Titus Lucretius Carus Partaker is of death; for pain and disease Are both artificers of death -- as well We've learned by
Titus Lucretius Carus And have a builded highway. He becomes Mere fool, since energy of mind and soul Confounded is, and, as
Titus Lucretius Carus Thus mind alone can never be, without The body and the man himself, which seems, As 'twere the vessel
Titus Lucretius Carus The soul out-filtering even through the frame, And through the body's every winding way And orifice? And
Titus Lucretius Carus The feet, the hands, instead of cleaving still To one sole seat, to one fixed haunt, the breast, If
Titus Lucretius Carus Mounting again and on. A third attempts With leg dismembered to arise and stand, Whilst, on the ground hard
Titus Lucretius Carus Dispersed in the winds, or, gathered in a mass From all its parts, sink down to brutish death, Since
Titus Lucretius Carus With body fused -- for what will seep and soak Will be dissolved and will therefore die. For just as
Titus Lucretius Carus To which to enter in, 'tis plain they can't. Then, souls for self no frames nor bodies make,
Titus Lucretius Carus The craved flower of life, unless it be The body's colleague in its origins? Or what's the
Titus Lucretius Carus Then, again, Whatever abides eternal must indeed Either repel all strokes, because 'tis made Of solid body, and permit
Titus Lucretius Carus We felt no touch of ill, when all sides round To battle came the Carthaginian host, And the times,
Titus Lucretius Carus Nothing for us there is to dread in death, No wretchedness for him who is no more, The same
Titus Lucretius Carus But add not, "yet no longer unto thee Remains a remnant of desire for them" If this they only
Titus Lucretius Carus That thou indulgest in too sickly plaints? Why this bemoaning and beweeping death? For if thy life aforetime and
Titus Lucretius Carus Of Tartarus, the black. For stuff must be, That thus the after-generations grow -- Though these, their life completed,
Titus Lucretius Carus To endure a world of toil, O this it is To shove with shoulder up the hill a stone
Titus Lucretius Carus Trampling upon it with his cavalry, The bellowings of ocean -- poured his soul From dying body, as his light
Titus Lucretius Carus Forgetfulness, or maybe bustles about And makes for town again. In such a way Each human flees himself -- a
Titus Lucretius Carus B IV P I wander afield, thriving in sturdy thought, Through unpathed haunts of the Pierides, Trodden by step
Titus Lucretius Carus But since I've taught already of what sort The seeds of all things are, and how distinct In
Titus Lucretius Carus The breres augmented with their flying spoils: Since such takes place, 'tis likewise certain too That tenuous images from
Titus Lucretius Carus But contrariwise, when such a tenuous film Of outside colour is thrown off, there's naught Can rend it,
Titus Lucretius Carus But lest Haply thou holdest that those images Which come from objects are the sole that flit, Others indeed
Titus Lucretius Carus So many beams to keep all things so full Of light incessant; thus, on grounds the same, From things
Titus Lucretius Carus With texture of such rareness that they can Through objects whatsoever penetrate And ooze, as 'twere, through intervening air.
Titus Lucretius Carus Borne streamingly along, and sent about To every region round; and nature grants Nor rest nor respite of the
Titus Lucretius Carus When the wind beats upon us stroke by stroke And when the sharp cold streams, 'tis not our wont
Titus Lucretius Carus By means of the two airs. Now, in the glass The right part of our members is observed Upon
Titus Lucretius Carus Further, our eye-balls tend to flee the bright And shun to gaze thereon; the sun even blinds, If
Titus Lucretius Carus Makes blunt the idol of the angle's point By numerous collidings. When thuswise The angles of the tower
Titus Lucretius Carus Seem fleeing fast astern, past which we urge The ship and fly under the bellying sails. The stars, each
Titus Lucretius Carus We cast our eyes across, all objects seem Thus to be onward borne and flow along In the same
Titus Lucretius Carus To cross the plains afoot, and hear new sounds, Though still the austere silence of the night Abides around
Titus Lucretius Carus The soft, the cold, the hot apart, apart All divers hues and whatso things there be Conjoined with hues.
Titus Lucretius Carus With their own body. For confess we must Even voice and sound to be corporeal, Because they're able
Titus Lucretius Carus For then the voice conserves its own formation, Conserves its shape. But if the space between Be longer than
Titus Lucretius Carus And wonders of this ilk they love to tell, Lest they be thought to dwell in lonely spots And
Titus Lucretius Carus The bodies of the oozy flavour, then Delightfully they touch, delightfully They treat all spots, around the wet and
Titus Lucretius Carus And certain of them many-angled too In many modes. For, as the combination And motion of their divers
Titus Lucretius Carus Forescents afar the odour of mankind. Thus, diversly to divers ones is given Peculiar smell that leadeth each along
Titus Lucretius Carus Thou mayest see that odour is create Of larger primal germs than voice, because It enters not through stony
Titus Lucretius Carus (As earlier I showed) one subtle image, Compounded, moves by its one blow the mind, Itself so subtle and
Titus Lucretius Carus It happens also that there is supplied Sometimes an image not of kind the same; But what before was
Titus Lucretius Carus Sharply alone the ones it strains to see; And thus the rest do perish one and all, Save those
Titus Lucretius Carus With hand to hand, and rending of the joints, And fouling of the limbs with gore, was there, O
Titus Lucretius Carus From off our body, how the hunger-pang It, too, appeased. Now, how it comes that we, Whene'er
Titus Lucretius Carus And frees the breast from cares of mind, I'll tell In verses sweeter than they many are; Even
Titus Lucretius Carus And primal elements, there comes to pass By slow degrees, along our members then, A kind of overthrow; for
Titus Lucretius Carus Attention undivided, still they keep (As oft we note), even when they've ceased to grasp Those games with
Titus Lucretius Carus Raise a wild cry as if their throats were cut Even then and there. And many wrestle on And
Titus Lucretius Carus And stirs amain the genitals of man. The goaded regions swell with seed, and then Comes the delight to
Titus Lucretius Carus Canst lead elsewhere the tumults of thy mind. Nor doth that man who keeps away from love Yet lack
Titus Lucretius Carus By merely gazing on the bodies, nor They cannot with their palms and fingers rub Aught from each tender
Titus Lucretius Carus With rarest cloth and viands, are prepared -- And games of chance, and many a drinking cup, And unguents, crowns
Titus Lucretius Carus One of the Graces sure"; the big and bulky O she's "an Admiration, imposante"; The stuttering and tongue-
Titus Lucretius Carus And thus allow for poor mortality. Nor sighs the woman always with feigned love, Who links her body round
Titus Lucretius Carus Engenders shapes, and diversely brings back Ancestral features, voices too, and hair. A female generation rises forth From seed
Titus Lucretius Carus Can bulwark their old age with goodly sons. A matter of great moment 'tis in truth, That seeds may
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Titus Lucretius Carus BV P O WHO can build with puissant breast a song Worthy the majesty of these great finds? Or
Titus Lucretius Carus Of Thracian Diomedes breathing fire From out their nostrils off along the zones Bistonian and Ismarian? And the Snake,
Titus Lucretius Carus Inexorable decrees -- how (as we've found), In class of mortal objects, o'er all else, The mind exists
Titus Lucretius Carus Longer by empty promises -- behold, Before all else, the seas, the lands, the sky: O Memmius, their threefold nature,
Titus Lucretius Carus There to put out the splendid sun of heaven, Branding with mortal talk immortal things -- Though these same things
Titus Lucretius Carus Wherefore, besides, also their seats must be Unlike these seats of ours -- even subtle too, As meet for subtle
Titus Lucretius Carus Could thus produce, if nature's self had not Given example for creating all? For in such wise primordials
Titus Lucretius Carus Are now in leaf, are now in blossom all, Either the skiey sun with baneful heats Parches, or sudden
Titus Lucretius Carus Our world consumed and begot again, 'Tis mine to know that also sky above And earth beneath began of
Titus Lucretius Carus Through all the lands. The brine is filtered off, And then the liquid stuff seeps back again And all
Titus Lucretius Carus Do hurry in like manner to supply With ministering heat new light amain; Are all alive to quiver with
Titus Lucretius Carus Besides all this, If there had been no origin-in-birth Of lands and sky, and they had ever
Titus Lucretius Carus Again, Whatever abides eternal must indeed Either repel all strokes, because 'tis made Of solid body, and permit no
Titus Lucretius Carus Seest not that there may be for them an end Of the long strife? -- Or when the skiey sun
Titus Lucretius Carus When all that force of water-stuff which forth From out the infinite had risen up Did now retire,
Titus Lucretius Carus And weights, and blows, encounterings, and motions, Because, by reason of their forms unlike And varied shapes, they could
Titus Lucretius Carus Into a dome, and, far and wide diffused On unto every region on all sides, Thus hedged all else
Titus Lucretius Carus And each more lighter than the next below; And ether, most light and liquid of the three, Floats on
Titus Lucretius Carus For they cohere together with common roots, Conjoined both, even from their earliest age, In linked unison. Aye, seest
Titus Lucretius Carus In divers worlds on divers plan create, This only do I show, and follow on To assign unto the
Titus Lucretius Carus Only the least, when more or less away, So long as still they bicker clear, and still Their glow'
Titus Lucretius Carus For these affairs. Yet chief in likelihood Seemeth the doctrine which the holy thought Of great Democritus lays down:
Titus Lucretius Carus But night o'erwhelms the lands with vasty murk Either when sun, after his diurnal course, Hath walked the
Titus Lucretius Carus Likewise, days may wax Whilst the nights wane, and daylight minished be Whilst nights do take their augmentations, Either
Titus Lucretius Carus She hath with full effulgence gleamed abroad, And, at her rising as she soars above, Hath there observed his
Titus Lucretius Carus The winged harbinger, steps on before, And hard on Zephyr's foot-prints Mother Flora, Sprinkling the ways before
Titus Lucretius Carus And still, if moon herself refulgent be With her own sheen, why could she not at times In some
Titus Lucretius Carus How merited is that adopted name Of earth -- "The Mother!"-- since from out the earth Are all begotten. And
Titus Lucretius Carus She ceased, like to a woman worn by eld. For lapsing aeons change the nature of The whole wide
Titus Lucretius Carus Perforce there perished many a stock, unable By propagation to forge a progeny. For whatsoever creatures thou beholdest Breathin
Titus Lucretius Carus Now weak through lapsing life, do fail with age, Lo, only then doth youth with flowering years Begin for
Titus Lucretius Carus Have been together knit; because, indeed, The divers kinds of grasses and the grains And the delightsome trees -- which
Titus Lucretius Carus So, too, they sought the grottos of the Nymphs -- The woodland haunts discovered as they ranged -- From forth of
Titus Lucretius Carus Wildered by wild misgiving, lest a night Eternal should possess the lands, with light Of sun withdrawn forever. But
Titus Lucretius Carus B C Afterwards, When huts they had procured and pelts and fire, And when the woman, joined unto the
Titus Lucretius Carus Against the trunks. And of these causes, either May well have given to mortal men the fire. Next, food
Titus Lucretius Carus The narrow path of man's ambition; Since all their wisdom is from others' lips, And all they seek
Titus Lucretius Carus And need and use did mould the names of things, About in same wise as the lack-speech years
Titus Lucretius Carus Are wont dissimilar and divers sounds To rouse from in them, when there's fear or pain, And when
Titus Lucretius Carus Flourish in midst of great affairs of state And midst great centres of man's civic life, The rites
Titus Lucretius Carus O humankind unhappy! -- when it ascribed Unto divinities such awesome deeds, And coupled thereto rigours of fierce wrath! What
Titus Lucretius Carus The heavy time be now at hand to pay? When, too, fierce force of fury-winds at sea Sweepeth
Titus Lucretius Carus Into the hollow places of the ground. And when men saw the cooled lumps anon To shine with splendour-
Titus Lucretius Carus Another's flocks and fields. For unto them, Thus armed, all things naked of defence Readily yielded. Then by
Titus Lucretius Carus And with those powerful fangs and hooked claws Fasten upon them. Bulls would toss their friends, And trample under
Titus Lucretius Carus And sounding yarn-beams. And nature forced the men, Before the woman kind, to work the wool: For all
Titus Lucretius Carus And woodsy meadows, through the untrod haunts Of shepherd folk and spots divinely still. Thus time draws forward each
Titus Lucretius Carus Fell into new contempt the pelts of beasts -- Erstwhile a robe of honour, which, I guess, Aroused in those
Titus Lucretius Carus Sailings on the seas, Tillings of fields, walls, laws, and arms, and roads, Dress and the like, all prizes,
Titus Lucretius Carus B VI P 'Twas Athens first, the glorious in name, That whilom gave to hapless sons of men The
Titus Lucretius Carus Should sally to each combat. And he proved That mostly vainly doth the human race Roll in its bosom
Titus Lucretius Carus Observed o'erhead on the ethereal coasts), Again are hurried back unto the fears Of old religion and adopt
Titus Lucretius Carus How it hath speeded forth from thence amain -- Whereof nowise the causes do men know, And think divinities are
Titus Lucretius Carus From whence that dry sound grateth on our ears, So long drawn-out, until the clouds have passed From
Titus Lucretius Carus As iron, white from the hot furnaces, Sizzles, when speedily we've plunged its glow Down the cold water.
Titus Lucretius Carus Just as thou seest how motion will o'erheat And set ablaze all objects -- verily A leaden ball, hurtling
Titus Lucretius Carus And a resplendent. And, indeed, they must Even from the light of sun unto themselves Take multitudinous seeds, and
Titus Lucretius Carus With his hot coruscations: so much more Agile and overpowering is this force. ...... Now in what manner engendered are
Titus Lucretius Carus To shut the round sun off. Nor could the clouds, As on they come, engulf with rain so vast
Titus Lucretius Carus By burst of cloud and by the hurricane, What time the thunder-clap, from burning bolt That cracks the
Titus Lucretius Carus Upon its course already kindled with fire, It yet arriveth warmed and mixed with heat. And, now, the speed
Titus Lucretius Carus Athrough their pores. And much it does transfix, When these primordial atoms of the bolt Have fallen upon the
Titus Lucretius Carus O this it is to mark by what blind force It maketh each effect, and not, O not To
Titus Lucretius Carus That divers strokes have happened at one time? But oft and often hath it come to pass, And often
Titus Lucretius Carus Plunges its whole self into the waters there And rouses all the sea with monstrous roar, Constraining it to
Titus Lucretius Carus That nature lifts from over all the sea Unnumbered particles. Whereby the more 'Tis manifest that many particles Even
Titus Lucretius Carus In like proportion, as our frames increase In like proportion with our blood, as well As sweat or any
Titus Lucretius Carus Which in the winter curbeth everywhere The rivers as they go -- 'tis easy still, Soon to discover and with
Titus Lucretius Carus The headlong winds. Then all the builded houses Above ground -- and the more, the higher up-reared Unto the
Titus Lucretius Carus Then dissipated, like an ague-fit, Through the innumerable pores of earth, To set her all a-shake -- even
Titus Lucretius Carus And many a sea, and far out-spread beneath, Do we behold. Therefore, however slight The portion of wet
Titus Lucretius Carus O not so large a part as is one man Of the whole earth. And plainly if thou viewest
Titus Lucretius Carus Aetnaean. First, the mountain's nature is All under-hollow, propped about, about With caverns of basaltic piers. And,
Titus Lucretius Carus Toward the summer, Nile Waxeth and overfloweth the champaign, Unique in all the landscape, river sole Of the Aegyptians.
Titus Lucretius Carus And, with down-drooping of their delicate necks, Fall headlong into earth, if haply such The nature of the
Titus Lucretius Carus And we have shown before that certain things Be unto certain creatures suited more For ends of life, by
Titus Lucretius Carus When men pursue the veins of silver and gold, With pick-axe probing round the hidden realms Deep in
Titus Lucretius Carus Further, the water of wells is colder then At summer time, because the earth by heat Is rarefied, and
Titus Lucretius Carus Into the earth retires; and this is why The fountain in the daylight gets so cold. Besides, the water'
Titus Lucretius Carus Before 'tis steeped in veritable fire. This, then, we must suppose to come to pass In that spring also.
Titus Lucretius Carus Now will I seek again to bring to mind How porous a body all things have -- a fact Made
Titus Lucretius Carus But hides and flesh it shrivels up and shrinks. The water hardens the iron just off the fire, But
Titus Lucretius Carus As premises prepared, for what remains 'Twill not be hard to render clear account By means of these, and
Titus Lucretius Carus Into the vacuum; for of verity, They're set a-going by poundings from elsewhere, Nor by themselves of
Titus Lucretius Carus Therefore, when iron (which lies between the two) Hath taken in some atoms of the brass, Then do the
Titus Lucretius Carus I will unfold. And, first, I've taught above That seeds there be of many things to us Life-
Titus Lucretius Carus And make it like themselves and alien. Therefore, asudden this devastation strange, This pestilence, upon the waters falls, Or
Titus Lucretius Carus Would roll a noisome stink, as stink to heaven Rotting cadavers flung unburied out. And, lo, thereafter, all the
Titus Lucretius Carus Tainted with colour of crocus and so salt, The cough scarce wheezing through the rattling throat. Aye, and the
Titus Lucretius Carus Outstretched, would yield their breath distressfully For so that Influence of bane would twist Life from their members. Nor
Titus Lucretius Carus Yea, even the sturdy guiders of curved ploughs, Began to sicken, and their bodies would lie Huddled within back-
Titus Lucretius Carus Place their own kin, and thrust the torch beneath Oft brawling with much bloodshed round about Rather than quit
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