[Gutenberg 64024] • Translations from Lucretius

Excerpt from The Nature of Things, Vol. 2 of 2: A Didactic Poem, Translated From the Latin

I have admitted, that the periodic iteration has not been very generally exhibited in didactic or heroic poems. Yet Virgil is not without instances of it, both in his Georgics and his jeneid. Thus, in the latter, the distich, l. V. 149.

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