He gives expression also to great strength of will and to that most powerful kind of pathos which arises out of the commingling of compassion for suffering with the admiration for heroism, as in these fragments of the Astyanax and the Telephus,-- Abducite intro; nam mihi miseritudine Commovit animum excelsa aspecti dignitas[38]; and-- Nam huius demum miseret, cuius nobilitas miserias Nobilitat[39]. He shows a further power of directly seizing the real meaning of human life, and setting aside false appearances and beliefs. The following may be quoted as exhibiting something of his moral strength, humanity, and direct force of understanding:-- Scin' ut quem cuique tribuit fortuna ordinem, Nunquam ulla humilitas ingenium infirmat bonum[40]. Erat istuc virile, ferre advorsam fortunam facul[41]. Nam si a me regnum fortuna atque opes Eripere quivit, at virtutem non quit[42]. Nullum est ingenium tantum, neque cor tam ferum, Quod non labascat lingua, mitiscat malo[43]. The following, again, like similar passages already quoted from Ennius and Pacuvius, is expressive of contempt for that form of superstition which had most practical hold over the minds of the Roman people:-- Nil credo auguribus, qui auris verbis divitant Alienas, suas ut auro locupletent domos[44]. Again, the view of common sense in regard to dreams is expressed by the interpreter to whom Tarquinius applies when alarmed by a strange vision-- Rex, quae in vita usurpant homines, cogitant, curant, vident, Quaeque agunt vigilantes agitantque, ea si cui in somno accidunt Minus mirum est[45]. Besides the characteristics already exemplified, one or two passages may be appealed to, as implying the more special gifts of a poet--force of imagination, and some sense of natural beauty. There is considerable descriptive power in the following lines, for instance, in which a shepherd, who had never before seen a ship, announces the first appearance of the Argo-- Tanta moles labitur Fremebunda ex alto, ingenti sonitu et spiritu: Prae se undas volvit, vortices vi suscitat: Ruit prolapsa, pelagus respergit, reflat[46]. There is an imaginative apprehension of the active forces of nature in this fragment-- Sub axe posita ad stellas septem, unde horrifer Aquilonis stridor gelidas molitur nives[47]. There is a fresh breath of the early morning in the lines from the Oenomaus-- Forte ante Auroram, radiorum ardentum indicem, Cum e somno in segetem agrestis cornutos cient, Ut rorulentas terras ferro rufidas Proscindant, glebasque arvo ex molli exsuscitent[48]. This is perhaps the first instance in Latin poetry of a descriptive passage which gives any hint of the pleasure derived from contemplating the common aspects of Nature. Several other short fragments betray the existence of this new vein of poetic sensibility, as, for instance, the following:--