Virgil & Lucretius / Passages translated by William Stebbing
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
P. Virgilii Maronis Georgicon, Bk. IV. vv. 453-527
Virgil
Titus Lucretius Carus
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VIRGIL AND LUCRETIUS
Contents
VIRGIL
Orpheus and Eurydice
Praise of Italy
Happy Husbandmen
A Tarentine Garden
A Golden Age
Æneas in Hades
Virgil to the Unknown God
The Gates
Ghosts
Euryalus and Pallas
Things
LUCRETIUS
Hymn to Venus
Philosophy
‘Musical as is Apollo’s Lute’
The Fear of Death
Earth’s Decay
Primeval Man
Iphigenia
Maternal Love
Echo
The Seasons