[Footnote 42: 'Whence returning victorious he brings back to us tidings of what may and what may not come into existence: on what principle, in fine, the power of each thing is determined and the deeply-fixed limit of its being.'--i. 75-77.] [Footnote 43: 'According to what condition all things have been created, what necessity there is that they abide by it, and how they may not annul the mighty laws of the ages.'--v. 56-58.] [Footnote 44: 'Since it is absolutely decreed, what each thing can and what it cannot do by the conditions of nature.'--i. 586.] [Footnote 45: 'It is fixed and ordered where each thing may grow and exist.'--iii. 787.] [Footnote 46: ii. 254.] [Footnote 47: ii. 1091.] [Footnote 48: vi. 32.] [Footnote 49: 'This, in these circumstances, I think I can establish, that such faint traces of our native elements are left beyond the powers of our reason to dispel, that nothing prevents us from leading a life worthy of the gods.'--iii. 319-22.] [Footnote 50: ii. 8.] [Footnote 51: ii. 297-99.] [Footnote 52: i. 262-64.] [Footnote 53: ii. 573-74.] [Footnote 54: ii. 575-76.] [Footnote 55: iii. 964.] [Footnote 56: ii. 77-79.] [Footnote 57: 'So one thing shall never cease being born from another, and life is given to no man as a possession, to all for use.'--iii. 970-71.] [Footnote 58: 'Hence, moreover, the race of man and the beasts of the forest are fed; hence we see cities glad with the flower of their children, and the leafy woods on all sides loud with the song of young birds.'--i. 254-56.] [Footnote 59: v. 271-72.] [Footnote 60: 'Finally, since the vast members of the world, engaged in no holy warfare, so mightily contend with one another, see'st thou not that some end may be assigned to their long conflict, either when the sun and every mode of heat, having drunk up all the moisture, shall have gained the day, which they are ever tending to do but do not yet accomplish?' etc.--v. 380-85.] [Footnote 61: 'And that you may see how very small a part one firmament is of the whole sum of things, how small a fraction it is, not even so much in proportion as a single man is to the whole earth.'--vi. 650-52.] [Footnote 62: 'And traversed the whole boundless region of space, in mind and spirit.'--i. 74.] [Footnote 63: 'Who can order the infinite mass? who can hold with a guiding hand the mighty reins of immensity?'--ii. 1095-96.] [Footnote 64: ii. 16.] [Footnote 65: ii. 348.] [Footnote 66: i. 28.]