[Footnote 20: E.g. iv. 353, etc.] [Footnote 21: E.g. Ardua dum metuunt amittunt vera viai, and Avia Pieridum peragro loca.] [Footnote 22: Obermann, by M. Arnold.] [Footnote 23: i. 935-50.] [Footnote 24: 'And can discourse much on the combination of things, and enquire moreover, what are their own first elements.'] [Footnote 25: '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 26: Cp. Munro's notes on the passages where these expressions occur.] [Footnote 27: E.g. ii. 77, etc. Augescunt aliae gentes, etc., suggested by a passage in the Laws:--[Greek: gennontas te kai ektrephontas paidas, kathaper lampada ton bion paradidontas allois ex allon]--and the lines which recur several times, etc. 'Nam veluti pueri trepidant,' which Mr. Munro aptly compares with the words in the Phaedo (77), [Greek: isos eni tis kai en hemin pais, hostis ta toiauta phobeitai.]] [Footnote 28: v. 8.] [Footnote 29: Cf. His ibi me rebus quaedam divina voluptas Percipit adque horror.] [Footnote 30: 'But nought greater than this man does it seem to have possessed, nor aught more holy, more wonderful, or more beloved. 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 31: '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 32: '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 black funeral train.'--ii. 576-80.] [Footnote 33: i. 943-50.] [Footnote 34: iii. 1036-38.] [Footnote 35: Cf. notes ii. of Mr. Munro's edition.] [Footnote 36: i. 117, etc.] [Footnote 37: Mr. Froude, in his 'Julius Caesar,' says, 'The age was saturated with cant.' Perhaps, to that condition of the 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.