(i.) Sellar’s Vergil, pp. 199-243.
(ii.) Munro’s Lucretius, Notes on Book i. line 78, and Book iii. line 449.
Notice in this connection the opening lines of the passage, Felix qui potuit . . . Acherontis avari, which may be summarised as follows: ‘Happy he who knows the laws of Nature, and has therefore ceased to fear natural phenomena and has learnt to despise the fabled terrors of Hades.’ Munro says: ‘I feel that by his Felix qui Vergil does mean a poet-philosopher, who can only be Lucretius.’
Cf. also Lucretius, iii. 1-30. His address to Epicurus.
For the thought, cf. Wordsworth’s Happy Warrior—
‘He therefore does not stoop, nor lie in wait
For wealth, or honours, or for worldly state.’
[16.] ‘The purple (the insignia) of the highest office shall clothe Pompeius.’
[17.] See [Short Lives, p. 343].