VIRGIL AND LUCRETIUS VIRGIL & LUCRETIUS PASSAGES TRANSLATED BY WILLIAM STEBBING HON. FELLOW OF WORCESTER COLLEGE, OXFORD AUTHOR OF ‘SIR WALTER RALEGH: A BIOGRAPHY’ ‘FIVE CENTURIES OF ENGLISH VERSE: IMPRESSIONS’ ‘TRUTHS OR TRUISMS’ LONGMANS, GREEN AND CO. 39 PATERNOSTER ROW, LONDON FOURTH AVENUE & 30TH STREET, NEW YORK BOMBAY, CALCUTTA, AND MADRAS 1917 Contents PAGE _VIRGIL_ ORPHEUS AND EURYDICE 3 PRAISE OF ITALY 14 HAPPY HUSBANDMEN 17 A TARENTINE GARDEN 25 A GOLDEN AGE 29 LIMBO AND TARTARUS 36 ELYSIUM 72 TO THE UNKNOWN GOD 90 THE GATES 91 THE GHOSTS 92 EURYALUS AND PALLAS 93 THINGS 94 _LUCRETIUS_ _‘DE RERUM NATURA’_ HYMN TO VENUS 97 PHILOSOPHY 101 ‘MUSICAL AS IS APOLLO’S LUTE’ 105 THE FEAR OF DEATH 107 EARTH’S DECAY 121 PRIMEVAL MAN 124 IPHIGENIA 139 MATERNAL LOVE 142 ECHO 144 THE SEASONS 147 VIRGIL Orpheus and Eurydice P. VIRGILII MARONIS Georgicon, Bk. IV. vv. 453-527 This is the tale old Proteus by the sea Erst told of Orpheus and Eurydice. Virgil at Parthenope overheard, And has resung it, if not word by word.