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Michael Adams wrote:
There's a full e:text of the Leanord Translation of "De Rerum Natura"
on Project Gutenberg


Sorry, but for me no translation can capture the solemn roll and graceful
melody of the Lucretian hexameter. Although the poem is largely scientific
in content, it is in places highly charged with emotion, and the language
can be both poignant and beautiful. In his finest passages Lucretius was
unsurpassed even by Virgil.

"Iam iam non domus accipiet te laeta, neque uxor
Optima, nec dulces occurrent oscula nati
Praeripere et tacita pectus dulcedine tangent:
Non poteris factis florentibus esse, tuisque
Praesidium; misero misere," aiunt, "omnia ademit
Una dies infesta tibi tot praemia vitae ... "

Unfortunately, the learning of Latin has been virtually eradicated from our
"comprehensive" system of education in Britain - surely, a grave error.

John Townsend
Old Books on Genealogy and British Local History,
http://www.johntownsend.demon.co.uk






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