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VIRGIL AND LUCRETIUS

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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

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Contents

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VIRGIL
Orpheus and Eurydice3
Praise of Italy14
Happy Husbandmen17
A Tarentine Garden25
A Golden Age29
Limbo and Tartarus36
Elysium72
To the Unknown God90
The Gates91
The Ghosts92
Euryalus and Pallas93
Things94[vi]
LUCRETIUS
‘DE RERUM NATURA’
Hymn to Venus97
Philosophy101
‘Musical as is Apollo’s Lute’105
The Fear of Death107
Earth’s Decay121
Primeval Man...

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