Of the Nature of Things a Metrical Translation

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Of the Nature of Things a Metrical Translation
Lucretius Carus Titus
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(b) Some apparent deceptions of sight, and the veracity of the senses (377-5 19)* (c) Hearing (520-612)* (d) Taste (61 3-670) (e) Smell (671-684+704-719 + 685-703).
(No specific mention is made of touch, as every sense is a form of touch. ) (J) Mental pictures in sleep and waking (720-819).
Ill, Some vital functions (820-1049).
(a) Against a teleological theory (820-854).
(b) Food (855-903).
(c) Sleep and dreams ; love (904-1049).
Epilogue. The passion of love (1050-1279).
' BOOK IV ^ Proem — 1
...-25 I WANDER afield, thriving in sturdy thought, Through unpathed haunts of the Pierides, Trodden by step of none before. I joy To come on undefiled fountains there, To drain them deep ; I joy to pluck new flowers, To seek for this my head a signal crown From regions where the Muses never yet Have garlanded the temples of a man : First, since I teach concerning mighty things. And go right on to loose from round the mind The tightened coils of dread religion ; Next, since, concerning themes so dark, I frame Song so pellucid, touching all throughout Even with the Muses* charm — which, as 'twould seem, Is not without a reasonable ground : For as physicians, when they seek to %\v

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