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In the calm after the storm
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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