[Footnote 354: iv. 973, etc.] [Footnote 355: iv. 75, etc.] [Footnote 356: ii. 24, etc.] [Footnote 357: In places where he is not drawing from his own observation, he uses such expressions as _memorant_; e.g. iii. 642.] [Footnote 358: E.g. iv. 353, etc.] [Footnote 359: e.g. 'Ardua dum metuunt amittunt vera viai' and 'Avia Pieridum peragro loca.' ] [Footnote 360: Obermann, by M. Arnold.] [Footnote 361: i. 935-50.] [Footnote 362: 'And can discourse much on the combination of things; and enquire moreover, what are their own first elements.'] [Footnote 363: 'While I seem ever to be plying this task earnestly, to be enquiring into Nature, and explaining my discoveries in writings in my native tongue.' This is one of those passages which seem to indicate an unhealthy overstrain which may have been the precursor of the final disturbance of 'his power to shape.'] [Footnote 364: Cp. Munro's notes on the passages where these expressions occur.] [Footnote 365: E.g. ii. 77, etc. Augescunt aliae gentes etc., suggested by a passage in the Laws:--γεννῶντας τε καὶ ἐκτρέφοντας παῖδας, καθάπερ λάμπαδα τὸν βίον παραδίδοντας ἄλλοις ἐξ ἄλλων--and the lines which recur several times, etc. 'Nam veluti pueri trepidant,' which Mr. Munro aptly compares with the words in the Phaedo (77), ἴσως ἔνι τις καὶ ἐν ἡμῖν παῖς, ὅστις τὰ τοιαῦτα φοβεῖται.] [Footnote 366: v. 8.] [Footnote 367: Cf. 'His ibi me rebus quaedam divina voluptas Percipit adque horror.' ] [Footnote 368: 'But nought greater than this man does it seem to have possessed, nor aught more holy, more wonderful, or more dear. Yea, too, strains of divine genius proclaim aloud and make known his great discoveries, so that he seems scarcely to be of mortal race.'--i. 729-33.] [Footnote 369: 'When they have gazed for a few years of a life that is indeed no life speedily fulfilling their doom, they vanish away like a smoke, convinced of that only which each hath met in his own experience, as they were buffeted about to and fro. Vainly doth each boast to have discovered the whole. The eye cannot behold it, nor the ear hear it, nor the mind of man comprehend it.'] [Footnote 370: 'With death there is ever blending the wail of infants newly born into the light. And no night hath ever followed day, no morning dawned on night, but hath heard the mingled sounds of feeble infant wailings and of lamentations that follow the dead and the black funeral train.'--ii. 576-80.] [Footnote 371: i. 943-50.] [Footnote 372: iii. 1036-38.] [Footnote 373: Cf. notes ii. of Mr. Munro's edition.] [Footnote 374: i. 117, etc.] [Footnote 375: Mr. Froude, in his 'Julius Cæsar,' says, 'The age was saturated with cant.' Perhaps, to that condition of his age we, in part, owe one of the sincerest protests against cant, and unreality of every kind, ever written. Both speculatively and practically Cicero appears at a great disadvantage when compared with Lucretius in these respects.] CHAPTER XII.