complainings.... For old things give way and are supplanted by new
without fail, and one thing must ever be replenished out of other
things; and no one is delivered over to the pit and black Tartarus.
Matter is needed for after generations to grow, all of which, though,
will follow thee when they have finished their term of life; and thus
it is that all these no less than thou have before this come to an end
and hereafter will come to an end. Thus one thing will never cease to
rise out of another; and life is granted to none in fee-simple, to all
in usufruct. (III. 955, 964-71, Munro’s translation.)
[23] Is there aught in this that looks appalling, aught that wears an
aspect of gloom? Is it not more untroubled than any sleep? (III. 976-7,
Munro’s translation.)
[24] Suns may set and rise again; for us, when once our brief day has
waned, there is one long night to be slept through. Give me a thousand
kisses, and then a hundred, and another thousand, and a hundred to
follow yea, and another thousand--and yet a hundred! (_Carmen_, V. 4-9)
[25] Cease to weep, Aurunculeia: _Thou_ need’st not fear that any
lovelier maid should see the bright day coming from Ocean.
Even so the hyacinth is wont to bloom in the rich man’s many-coloured
garden. But thou lingerest. The day is passing. Come forth, thou bride.
Come forth, thou bride, now if it please thee, and hear our songs. Look
how the torches shake their golden hair! Come forth, thou bride.
[26] Plate 15.
[27] At last, Fellow Citizens of Rome, at last we are quit of Lucius
Catiline. Mad with audacity, panting with iniquity, infamously
contriving destruction for the fatherland, hurling his threats of fire
and slaughter against us and our city, we have cast him forth or driven
him forth or escorted him forth on his way with salutations. Gone,
vanished, absconded, escaped! No more shall disaster be plotted against
our bulwarks from within by that monster, that prodigy of wickedness.
No more shall that dagger threaten our hearts. No more in the Campus,
nor in the forum, nor in the senate-house, no more within the walls of
our own homes, shall he fill us with panic and alarm.
[28] I was grieved, Fathers and Senators, grieved that the republic
once saved by your exertions and mine should be doomed so shortly to
perish.... Listen, listen, Fathers and Senators, listen and learn the
wounds of our fatherland!
[29] As a youth I defended the state; I will not fail her in my age:
I spurned the swords of Catiline; I will not tremble at thine. Nay,
sirs, I would gladly give my body to death, if that could assure the
liberty of our country and help the pains o£ the Roman people to bring
the fruit of its long travailing to birth. Why, nearly twenty years ago
in this very temple I declared that death could not come too soon for
a man who had enjoyed a consulship. With how much more truth shall I
declare it in my age! To me death is already covetable; I have finished
with those rewards which I have gained and those honours which I have
achieved. Only these two prayers I make: one, that at my death I may
leave the Roman people free (than this nothing greater could be granted
by the immortal gods), and, secondly, that every man may so be requited
as he may deserve at the hands of the republic!
[30] Plate 44, Fig. 2.
[31] Plate 16.
[32] See page 18.
[33] Plate 22, Nos. 2 and 3.
[34] Plate 18, Fig. 1.
[35] Plate 18, Fig. 2.
[36] Plate 20, Fig. 1.
[37] Plate 19.
[38] Plate 22, Fig. 4.
[39] Plate 22, No. 1.
[40] Plate 21.
[41] Frontispiece, and Plates 23, 24, 25, 26.
[42] Plate 27.
[43] See Frontispiece.
[44] Plate 28, Fig. 1.
[45] Mayst thou [Fortune] preserve Cæsar, who marches against the
Britons at the ends of the earth. (_Odes_, I. xxxv, 29-30.)
[46] Plates 29-32.
[47] Plate 35, Fig. 1.
[48] _Carmen Seculare_, 17-20.
[49] Plate 36.
[50] Plate 35, Fig. 2; Plate 37; and Plate 41, Fig. 2.
[51] See “The Glory that was Greece,” Plates 31 and 32.
[52] Plate 73: for detail see Plates 53, 54, 55, 56.
[53] Plate 41, Fig. 2; Plate 42, Fig. 1; and Plate 43.
[54] Plate 38.
[55] Plates 39, 40.
[56] Plate 18, Fig. 1.
[57] Plate 44, Fig. 2.
[58] Plate 44, Fig. 1.
[59] Plate 45.
[60] Plate 46.
[61] Plate 47.
[62] Plate 48.
[63] Plate 51.
[64] Plate 52.
[65] Plates 53, 54, 55, 56.
[66] Plate 58.
[67] Plate 59.
[68] Plates 60, 61, 62, 63.
[69] Plate 64.
[70] Plates 65, 66.
[71] Plate 67, Fig. 2.
[72] Plate 68, Fig. 1.
[73] Plate 69.
[74] Plate 70.
[75] Plate 71, Fig. 1.
[76] Plate 72.
[77] Plate 73.
[78] Plate 75, Fig. 1.
[79] Plate 76.
[80] Plate 77.
[81] Plate 29.
[82] Plate 81.
[83] Plate 82.
[84] Plate 45.
[85] Plate 83.
[86] Plate 84.
[87] Plate 85.
[88] Plate 89.
[89] Plates 87, 88, 90.
[90] Plate 91.
[91] Plate 92.
[92] See Plate 95, Fig. 2.
[93] Plate 93.
[94] Plate 71, Fig. 2.
[95] Plate 94.
[96] Plate 95, Fig. 1.
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