 When the life of man lay foul to see and grovelling upon the earth, crushed by the weight of religion, which showed her face from the realms of heaven, lowering upon mortals with dreadful mien, 'twas a man of Greece who dared first to raise his mortal...  Tradition and Innovation in Hellenistic Poetry - Side 229af Marco Fantuzzi, Richard Hunter - 2005 - 511 siderBegrænset visning - Om denne bog
 | Titus Lucretius Carus - 1910 - 376 sider
...with dreadful mien, 'twas a man of Greece n who dared-first-ta.raise hisjnortal eyes. to meet her, and first to stand forth to meet her : him neither the...roar, but all the more spurred, the eager daring of Jus mind to yearn to be the first to burst through the close-set bolts upon the doors of nature. And... | |
 | Irwin Edman - 1919 - 480 sider
...with dreadful mien, 'twas a man of Greece who dared first to raise his mortal eyes to meet her, and first to stand forth to meet her; him neither the...eager daring of his mind to yearn to be the first to burst through the close-set bolts upon the doors of nature.21 . Primitive man feared the gods as much... | |
 | Titus Lucretius Carus - 1921 - 326 sider
...n who dared first ^o raise- his mortal eyes ^o meej, her, and first ^o stand^forth. Ao .meet/her : him neither the stories of the gods nor thunderbolts...eager daring of his mind to yearn to be the first to burst through the close-set bolts upon the doors >of nature^ And so it was that the lively force of... | |
 | Annette Harder, Remco F. Regtuit, G. C. Wakker - 2006 - 404 sider
...longe flammantia moenia mundi atque omne immensum peragrauit mente animoque etc. Lucretius, DRN 1.62-74 When the life of man lay foul to see and grovelling...through the close-set bolts upon the doors of nature. And so it was that the lively force of his mind won its way, and he passed on far beyond the fiery... | |
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