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501 III| thunderbolt of war,~ Horror of Carthage, gave his bones to earth,~ 502 III| round~ To battle came the Carthaginian host,~ And the times, shaken 503 II| lands are seen afloat~ The carven fragments of the rended 504 V| the babe,~ Like to the castaway of the raging surf,~ Lies 505 VI| spewest all of this~ And casteth far from thee all thoughts 506 VI| one place, as 'twere, -~ Casting them one by other, as they 507 IV| soul~ Down deeper, more a casting-forth of it,~ A moving more divided 508 VI| woman, too,~ At the heavy castor drowses back in chair,~ 509 IV| fetid's "negligee";~ The cat-eyed she's "a little Pallas," 510 VI| from the powerful Roman catapults.~ Note, too, this force 511 VI| blackest thunderhead, like cataract~ Of pitch hurled down from 512 VI| extinguished~ A moment since, it catches fire before~ 'Thas touched 513 V| a man~ Advancing step by cautious step, as I.~ ~ Nor can the 514 V| of all the level seas,~ Caved in, and down along the hollows 515 III| blood,~ But rather as in a cavern all alone.~ (Yet all the 516 VI| taught thee even now~ How cavernous clouds hold seeds innumerable~ 517 VI| bountiful,~ Where never cawing crows can wing their course,~ 518 IV| garments Alidensian~ Or of the Cean isle. And banquets, set~ 519 II| conjecture of what sort~ The ceaseless tossing of primordial seeds~ 520 III| snorest~ Even when awake, and ceasest not to see~ The stuff of 521 VI| twas such~ Mortal miasma in Cecropian lands~ Whilom reduced the 522 IV| seen, -~ Until, conjoining ceiling with the floor,~ And the 523 II| resound~ No fretted and gilded ceilings overhead,~ Yet still to 524 I| craft, entering its hollow cells,~ Dissolve it down. And 525 VI| first,~ How lime alone cementeth stones: how wood~ Only by 526 IV| For soothly from no living Centaur is~ That phantom gendered, 527 V| of state~ And midst great centres of man's civic life,~ The 528 III| sieve, unfilled forever.~ ~ Cerberus and Furies, and that Lack 529 IV| limbs of Scyllas, thus~ The Cerberus-visages of dogs we see,~ And images 530 V| where now extend the vast~ Cerulean zones of all the level seas,~ 531 I| sky~ Abashed; but rather chafed to angry zest~ His dauntless 532 VI| and sure it oft~ Maketh a chain of rings, depending, lo,~ 533 V| fierce~ To guide and hold in chains - and yet in vain,~ Since 534 VI| heavy castor drowses back in chair,~ And from her delicate 535 V| The Babylonian doctrine of Chaldees,~ Refuting the art of Greek 536 III| frames~ The clinging dust, or chalk that settles soft;~ Nor 537 IV| In passing through shut chambers of a house,~ Is dulled, 538 VI| For sometimes, too, it chances that the clouds~ Cannot 539 V| things depart;~ Nature she changeth all, compelleth all~ To 540 V| have other bards~ Not also chanted other high affairs?~ Whither 541 I| foully slain.~ She felt the chaplet round her maiden locks~ 542 V| and shoulders about~ With chaplets of intertwined flowers and 543 VI| readily~ The heavy fumes of charcoal wind their way~ Into the 544 VI| And, so to say, rallying charge again,~ And then repulsed 545 VI| where the mountains smoke,~ Charged with the pungent sulphur, 546 V| Who by their diagrams have charted well~ Those regions of the 547 I| mainland. Here the waste~ Charybdis; and here Aetna rumbles 548 VI| deep earth, makes a mighty chasm -~ What once in Syrian Sidon 549 V| From forth the unplumbed chasms of the sea.~ But vain - 550 V| humouring nurse's~ Dear, broken chatter; nor seek they divers clothes~ 551 IV| all concede~ That eyes be cheated. For their task it is~ To 552 I| fluttering down on either cheek,~ And at the altar marked 553 IV| forth we squeeze it, in chewing up our food, -~ As any one 554 II| fowls~ To change to living chicks, and swarming worms~ To 555 II| savage, must be tamed and chid~ By care of parents. They 556 I| once at Aulis, the elected chiefs,~ Foremost of heroes, Danaan 557 V| woman now~ Is filled, at child-bearing, with the sweet milk,~ Because 558 V| The glory to the sky. From childhood wont~ Ever to see the dark 559 V| Parches, or sudden rains or chilling rime~ Destroys, or flaws 560 V| follows her,~ His teeth with chills a-chatter. Therefore, 'tis~ 561 V| How could it be that she, Chimaera lone,~ With triple body - 562 II| earth~ Feeding those dire Chimaeras breathing flame~ From hideous 563 VI| river, hid~ Beneath her chine, rolls rapidly along~ Its 564 V| finer life, poems, pictures, chiselled shapes~ Of polished sculptures - 565 IV| of Venus - that a sorry chit~ Of scanty grace will be 566 VI| all confounded, seek to chock it full~ With her own ruins. 567 VI| that Influence of bane had chocked,~ Down through the throat, 568 V| a bribe - as acorn-nuts, choice pears,~ Or the wild berries 569 I| solemn rites and hymeneal choir,~ But sinless woman, sinfully 570 III| Off with thy tears, and choke thy whines, buffoon!~ Thou 571 VI| water-fountains, -~ The life-breath choked from that too dear desire~ 572 V| overmastered multitude to choose~ To get by heart his names 573 V| and give them power~ To chop the forest down, to hew 574 V| certain earth.) But men chose this to do~ Less in the 575 II| when the stage~ Is with Cilician saffron sprinkled fresh,~ 576 IV| with their every hue~ The circled throng below, and all the 577 II| the down of doves~ That circles, garlanding, the nape and 578 V| earth,~ The high refulgent circuits of the heavens.~ The plains 579 VI| rear.~ For ever doth the circumambient air~ Drub things unmoved, 580 II| For then, by such bright circumstance abashed,~ Religion pales 581 V| have their meadow-plats,~ Cisterns and runnels, crops of standing 582 IV| The saviour of the Roman citadel,~ Forescents afar the odour 583 V| began~ Cities to found and citadels to set,~ As strongholds 584 IV| lawyers seem to plead and cite decrees,~ Commanders they 585 V| to others.~ BEGINNINGS OF CIVILIZATION~ ~ Afterwards,~ When huts 586 V| the foes~ Of the human clan? Why do the seasons bring~ 587 IV| call the beaming morn~ With clarion voice - and lions straightway 588 VI| flames, though innocent, and clasped~ Up-caught in skiey whirlwind 589 V| presents bright look and clear-cut form,~ May there on high 590 III| the door-posts have been cleared away.~ ~ Herein in these 591 VI| reached the stone itself and cleaved to it~ By links invisible. 592 V| far excels in skill,~ And cleverer is by much - until at last~ 593 VI| change~ The atmospheric cloak, or whether Nature~ Herself 594 VI| with her terrible murk hath cloaked the lands -~ What's not 595 IV| coifs, and many a time~ The cloaks, or garments Alidensian~ 596 V| scythed chariots~ Whereinto clomb the men-at-arms. And next~ 597 VI| augmented from all sides,~ The close-jammed clouds then struggle to 598 IV| conversing, though the doors be closed;~ No marvel either, since 599 III| it sinks,~ With eyelids closing and a drooping nod,~ In 600 II| thine to know they are not clothed with colour -~ Truly, what 601 VI| upon clap, when skies are cloudless all?~ Or, say, doth he, 602 V| Clownishly swaying, and with clownish foot~ To beat our Mother 603 V| out of tune, with limbs~ Clownishly swaying, and with clownish 604 VI| belly to back~ Are never cloyed.~ A point remains, besides,~ 605 III| how can mind wax strong~ Co-equally with body and attain~ The 606 I| lovely born,~ Thee do I crave co-partner in that verse~ Which I presume 607 I| that fair form, the glowing coal~ Under the Phrygian Alexander' 608 V| and more big.~ And many coarse foods, too, in long ago~ 609 III| going, the leaving of its coat,~ Like to a snake. Wherefore, 610 IV| not face and gaze upon the cock~ Who's wont with wings to 611 I| thus~ Do pass the night coequal to our days,~ But a vain 612 V| Interstices, and paths, coherencies,~ And weights, and blows, 613 IV| property~ Becometh head-bands, coifs, and many a time~ The cloaks, 614 V| apples of the Hesperides,~ Coiled round the tree-trunk with 615 II| of her journeyings~ With coin of brass and silver, gifting 616 II| see how quickly through a colander~ The wines will flow; how, 617 VI| then~ Likewise fierce cold-spells wrestle with fierce heats.~ 618 VI| effluvium.~ And when 'thas there collapsed, then the same power~ Of 619 VI| than she brings to pass~ Collapses dire. For to one side she 620 III| unless it be~ The body's colleague in its origins?~ Or what' 621 V| Of lead and copper too, collecting soon~ Into the hollow places 622 IV| angle's point~ By numerous collidings. When thuswise~ The angles 623 IV| from end to end~ On equal columns, parallel and big,~ Contracts 624 II| supported life~ With simple comfort in a narrow plot,~ Since, 625 IV| plead and cite decrees,~ Commanders they to fight and go at 626 VI| them along,~ And these, commingling, by their flight make fire:~ 627 V| tremendously~ With risen commotions of the lands all things~ 628 III| wind,~ Much, and so cold, companion of all dread,~ Which rouses 629 II| Upon the Mother and her companion-bands.~ Here is an armed troop, 630 III| frame~ Least part of time; companioning, it goes~ With mind into 631 II| birth-cries,~ The wild laments, companions old of death~ And the black 632 V| was that all~ Should have compassion on the weak. And still,~ 633 II| do lead us by the hand,~ Compelling belief that living things 634 II| the leafy lanes~ With her complaints; and oft she seeks again~ 635 III| Though these, their life completed, follow thee;~ And thus 636 I| bodies of matter, made~ Completely solid, hither and thither 637 III| that our frames~ Have such complex adjustments that no shift~ 638 IV| herself by very deeds,~ By her complying ways, and tidy habits,~ 639 III| Now, of what body, what components formed~ Is this same mind 640 I| thou disdain~ Before thou comprehendest: since for thee~ I prove 641 III| that breaks the ties of comradry~ And oversets all reverence 642 V| man's fair laws~ Is now conceded, men on this account~ Loathed 643 I| the rest of stuff.~ Yet he concedes not an void in things,~ 644 II| And, last, since thou concedest not all bodies~ Send out 645 I| out of drops of blood,~ Conceiving gold compact of grains of 646 IV| hinders and resists~ Her own conception, if too joyously~ Herself 647 III| death to us~ Is nothing, nor concerns us in the least,~ Since 648 II| is pied~ With shells and conchs, where, with soft waves, 649 V| of frame divine -~ And so conclude that it is just that those,~ ( 650 VI| contracts~ And, so to say, concretes, it happens, lo,~ That by 651 I| because the air~ Somehow condenses, wander they from truth:~ 652 V| perchance, the air~ Be of condition and so tempered then~ As 653 I| vortex seize~ And bear in cones of whirlwind down the world:~ 654 V| had, under treaty pacts,~ Confederates and allies, when poets began~ 655 V| what emoluments could it confer~ Upon Immortals and upon 656 II| possessing sense~ Must yet confessedly be stablished all~ From 657 IV| able to be known, since he~ Confesses naught to know. Therefore 658 IV| pretend a cause~ For each configuration, than to let~ From out our 659 V| there~ Of shapes and with configurations fixed,~ And why each day 660 VI| power~ Of grim necessity confineth there~ In such a task? Thus, 661 IV| That this, too, I may yet confirm in proof:~ First, living 662 V| the breast be purged, what conflicts then,~ What perils, must 663 V| But in what modes that conflux of first-stuff~ Did found 664 II| soe'er,~ And on it goes confounding all the sense~ Of body and 665 IV| days)~ Are in their sleep confronted from without~ By idol-images 666 I| outstanding alien element~ Confuse and minish in the thing 667 V| gaze~ Seem through much air confused in their look~ Ere minished 668 II| confound~ By tumult and confusion all the sense -~ As thou 669 IV| touch or shall the nose confute~ Or eyes defeat it? Methinks 670 II| flames~ And on the other by congealing frosts.~ ~ The which now 671 II| and wild beasts,~ By mere conglomeration each with each~ Can still 672 V| And in what modes that congregated stuff~ Established itself 673 VI| tempests rise~ In heavier congregation, when, percase,~ The seeds 674 II| confessed there are~ Such congregations of matter otherwhere,~ Like 675 III| For, verily, the mortal to conjoin~ With the eternal, and to 676 II| Their combinations, and conjoins anew~ One element with others; 677 III| birth,~ They're dowered conjointly with a partner-life;~ No 678 III| alone~ Are the true voices conjured from his breast,~ The mask 679 V| do~ Less in the hope of conquering than to give~ Their enemies 680 I| All.~ Whence he to us, a conqueror, reports~ What things can 681 I| in any wise~ Were open to conquest and to change, 'twould be~ 682 III| mind,~ With a fore-fearing conscience, plies its goads~ And burns 683 V| frame~ Codes that they might consent to follow laws.~ For humankind, 684 I| Fixed bounds of growing and conserving life;~ Since Nature hath 685 V| beholdest, these~ Thou mayst consider as possibly of size~ The 686 V| Men would take refuge in consigning all~ Unto divinities, and 687 I| union knit.~ Thus matter, consisting of a solid frame,~ Hath 688 V| with learned words~ Many a consolation, lest perchance,~ Still 689 VI| lo, the heat on high~ Of constellated ether burdens down~ Upon 690 I| sum,~ And whosoever have constituted air~ As first beginning 691 VI| in every part~ Alike in constitution. Therefore, earth,~ With 692 I| reason and nature of things~ Constrain us, come, whilst in few 693 III| them~ However useful to construct a body~ To which to enter 694 IV| In any part, the whole construction then~ Must turn out faulty - 695 I| world,~ Destroy entire, consuming matter all,~ Whence then 696 III| dissolves,~ Seeing, indeed, contagions of disease~ Enter into the 697 I| But be it the Long Ago contained those germs,~ By which this 698 III| away.~ For, sure, if body (container of the same~ Like as a jar), 699 III| of brine afoot, and did contemn,~ Trampling upon it with 700 III| ever~ What's not at hand, contemning present good,~ That life 701 VI| forsaken,~ Like rivals contended to be hurried through.~ ~ 702 V| earth they 'gan,~ And the contentions of uncertain war~ Were rendered 703 IV| yet give back,~ When by continued and recurrent discharge~ 704 VI| comes along, along~ With one continuing elan, it must~ Take on velocity 705 IV| unlike, and outer cut~ And contour of their members bounds 706 VI| suns,~ Our earth hath then contracted stench and rot.~ Seest thou 707 VI| it happens, lo,~ That by contracting it expresses then~ Into 708 IV| false sense, prevail to contradict~ Those senses, sprung as 709 IV| often we observe~ People conversing, though the doors be closed;~ 710 VI| on the lands~ And winds convey the aery racks of vapour.~ 711 VI| the air that lies behind~ Conveys it onward, pushing from 712 IV| That no one sense can e'er convict another.~ Nor shall one 713 I| the mind can think it,~ Convinced thou must confess such things 714 VI| of wild air~ And earth's convulsion, following hard upon,~ O' 715 VI| fall'n by such omnipotent~ Convulsions on the land, and in the 716 VI| our marrow-bones,~ Sets us convulsively, despite ourselves,~ A-shivering 717 V| the fire.~ Next, food to cook and soften in the flame~ 718 IV| the winds, the particles cool off,~ And then the scurrying 719 V| ground.~ And when men saw the cooled lumps anon~ To shine with 720 VI| For shift of aid - but coolness and a breeze~ Ever and ever. 721 III| of very love~ That I may copy thee! - for how should swallow~ 722 II| Green-emerald blended with the coral-red.~ The peacock's tail, filled 723 II| never, I fancy, did a golden cord~ From off the firmament 724 IV| burst~ The stoutly-knotted cords of Aphrodite.~ Yet even 725 I| wherewith to view~ The core of being at the centre hid.~ 726 IV| large, not only from their cores~ Deep-set within, as we 727 I| rose, at summer heat the corn,~ The vines that mellow 728 I| the wide waters, touch to corporal things,~ Intangibility to 729 II| fact,~ Showing in verse how corpuscles of stuff,~ From everlasting 730 VI| that cavities~ To solids correspond, these cavities~ Of this 731 III| Retreats sharp poison of corrupted frame~ Into its shadowy 732 VI| afar some fellow's lifeless corse,~ 'Twere meet to name all 733 VI| strength of iron.~ Again, where corselet of the sky girds round~ ~ 734 VI| puissant he~ With his hot coruscations: so much more~ Agile and 735 III| soul men say,~ Along their couches holding of the cups,~ With 736 VI| crocus and so salt,~ The cough scarce wheezing through 737 IV| she who's nearly dead of coughing-fit;~ The pursy female with 738 III| never is the intellect,~ The counselling mind, begotten in the head,~ 739 I| Foremost of heroes, Danaan counsellors,~ Defiled Diana's altar, 740 I| Wherefore, despite demur and counter-speech,~ Confess thou must there 741 VI| The seeds of cloud, and counterfeits, as 'twere,~ The "bellows" 742 IV| spots~ The neighbouring country-side doth feign to be~ Haunts 743 VI| interlinked~ With scanty couplings, yet be fastened firm,~ 744 V| because the self-same sun, coursing~ Under the lands and over 745 IV| Deflects the spurt of seed. And courtesans~ Are thuswise wont to move 746 II| Of motion to sunder the covenants of fate,~ That cause succeed 747 IV| therefore almost all~ Are covered either with hides, or else 748 V| Were earlier than loom-wove coverings;~ The loom-wove later than 749 IV| And drench the Babylonian coverlets,~ Magnificently bright. 750 IV| tears~ Because shut out, covers her threshold o'er~ Often 751 V| Before the art of hedging the covert round~ With net or stirring 752 V| they to reach unto~ The coveted flower of fair maturity,~ 753 VI| because he saw~ The vessel so cracked and leaky that nowise~ ' 754 VI| gives forth at times~ A cracking roar, when much 'tis beaten 755 II| fortunes of his sire,~ And crackles, prating, how the ancient 756 VI| there aught that in the crackling flame~ Consumes with sound 757 VI| from burning bolt~ That cracks the cloud, flies forth along. 758 II| however much may smile~ The crafty enticements of the placid 759 I| beats round the piers,~ Crashes with havoc, and rolls beneath 760 VI| As all begotten in those crasser clouds~ Up-piled aloft; 761 III| with body and attain~ The craved flower of life, unless it 762 III| of life; yet, since thou cravest ever~ What's not at hand, 763 I| To me a thought inept and crazy too.~ For whither shall 764 I| contrives things, or that earth~ Createth all and changes things anew~ 765 I| together stream,~ And new creations only be revealed~ When the 766 I| eterne.~ Again, if Nature, creatress of all things,~ Were wont 767 I| argument~ Here scrape together credence for my words.~ But for the 768 II| cropping their goodly food and creeping about~ Whither the summons 769 II| thither afloat~ Upon the crest of things, and now a birth~ 770 V| Or, again,~ O what could Cretan Bull, or Hydra, pest~ Of 771 II| Dictaean Curetes, who, in Crete,~ As runs the story, whilom 772 V| dash~ Whole argosies and crews upon the rocks.~ But ocean 773 IV| one word,~ Sent from the crier's mouth, may rouse all ears~ 774 V| mind with dread of gods~ Cringes not close, whose limbs with 775 V| Or whimpering slink with cringing sides from blows.~ Again 776 IV| senses be~ Rebutted. For criterion must be found~ Worthy of 777 VI| Tainted with colour of crocus and so salt,~ The cough 778 V| modes of tilling their loved crofts,~ And mark they would how 779 IV| Creatures in many a wise crooked and ugly~ The prosperous 780 II| will the woolly flocks~ Be cropping their goodly food and creeping 781 VI| arrive~ Thereunto by a little cross-cut straight,~ And what of ills 782 IV| bonds?~ How often in the cross-roads dogs that pant~ To get apart 783 I| be the first to rend~ The crossbars at the gates of Nature old.~ 784 IV| prospering love and true;~ But in crossed love and helpless there 785 IV| rocks~ Going before and crossing on the sun,~ Whereafter 786 VI| made a void,~ Whether from crosswise or above, forthwith~ The 787 V| limbs with terror-spell~ Crouch not together, when the parched 788 III| rt jostled along by many crowding cares,~ And wanderest reeling 789 III| corpse on corpse they have a cruel laugh~ For the sad burial 790 III| from icy water, or grating crunch~ Upon a stone that got in 791 I| grains~ Should oft, when crunched between the might of stones,~ 792 I| last against the grip and crush~ Under the teeth of death? 793 VI| By winds, and soft mud crusted o'er at dawn.~ ~ Again, 794 V| panthers and the lion's cubs~ With claws and paws and 795 VI| wet that sun on any spot~ Culls from the level main, he 796 V| By the strong towers; and cultivate an earth~ All portioned 797 VI| Birdless tarn.~ Such spot's at Cumae, where the mountains smoke,~ 798 VI| weighted down~ Both by their cumulated mass and by~ The onset of 799 IV| of a fondling joy~ Doth curb the bites of passion. For 800 VI| check~ Which in the winter curbeth everywhere~ The rivers as 801 VI| And universal principle of cure:~ For what to one had given 802 III| mark the mind itself is cured,~ Like the sick body, and 803 IV| former wounds of love, and curest them~ While yet they're 804 VI| constrained~ With its own current 'gainst the iron's fabric~ 805 V| train the elephants -~ Those curst Lucanian oxen, hideous,~ 806 VI| them and borne aloft,~ To curtain heaven with their murk, 807 II| on the thirsty sands of curving shores.~ Wherefore again, 808 IV| repose,~ Far ancienter than cushions of soft beds,~ And quenching 809 IV| wild-beasts,~ After the custom of the four-foot breeds,~ 810 V| know to use~ In common any customs, any laws:~ Whatever of 811 I| narrow straits,~ Swift ocean cuts her boundaries from the 812 V| but that~ Perished the cycles of the human race~ In fiery 813 II| Galli come:~ And hollow cymbals, tight-skinned tambourines~ 814 IV| tapestries;~ And unguents and dainty Sicyonian shoes~ Laugh on 815 III| stars.~ Wilt thou, then, dally, thou complain to go? -~ 816 IV| smelling object is. For, dallying on~ Along the winds, the 817 II| from fixed seed and fixed dam~ Engendered and so function 818 IV| much preferred,~ Desirable dame. For so men do,~ Eyeless 819 III| comrades of the Heliconian dames,~ Among whom Homer, sceptered 820 IV| his heels; and there he'd damn himself~ For his fatuity, 821 VI| disease~ Entangled, ay, as damned unto death,~ Would lie in 822 V| the air~ And fled earth's damps) had burst these wombs, 823 II| throats~ Do know their horned dams, and butting lambs~ The 824 I| chiefs,~ Foremost of heroes, Danaan counsellors,~ Defiled Diana' 825 IV| They think they view the dancers moving round~ Their supple 826 VI| times~ The very force of danger here at hand~ Prods them 827 IV| Still canst thou scape the danger-lest indeed~ Thou standest in 828 VI| Five or yet more in order dangling down~ And swaying in the 829 V| Lastly, the flying race, the dappled birds,~ Hawks, ospreys, 830 II| how great perils, in what darks of life~ Are spent the human 831 IV| scrawniness~ Becomes "a slender darling"; "delicate"~ Is she who' 832 II| These mites of matter are darted round about,~ Recall to 833 II| ravens, as they fly,~ Should dartle from white pinions a white 834 VI| other, with minute~ And dartling bodies - a fire 'gainst 835 I| Swells with big showers, dashes headlong down~ Fragments 836 V| is new, and of a recent date~ The nature of our universe, 837 I| queen,~ With Agamemnon's daughter, foully slain.~ She felt 838 I| chafed to angry zest~ His dauntless heart to be the first to 839 V| should dawn at last~ The day-spring of creation! Whosoever~ 840 V| new sun is with each new daybreak born.~ ~ The moon she possibly 841 III| collapse,~ And, on the ground, dazed tumult in the mind,~ And 842 VI| the earth? - Or what of deadly bane~ The mines of gold 843 V| teach~ And to persuade the deaf concerning what~ 'Tis needful 844 III| things, since here is in debate~ Eternal time and not the 845 II| that it may~ The least debauch and ruin with sharp tang~ 846 V| in their train! and lo,~ Debaucheries and every breed of sloth!~ 847 II| let the bodies of flames~ Deceive thee here: for they engendered 848 IV| the largest part of these~ Deceives through mere opinions of 849 IV| approaching, he would seek~ Decent excuses to go out forthwith;~ 850 II| of sun. And here, whoso~ Decides to call the ocean Neptune, 851 V| multitudinous waters round about~ Declareth this. But whatso water first~ 852 I| unless~ This primal faith, deep-founded, fail us not,~ Naught will 853 V| against the sun and earth~ And deep-sea waters, but wide open stands~ 854 IV| not only from their cores~ Deep-set within, as we have said 855 III| cunning with foxes, and to deer why given~ The ancestral 856 V| more must thou~ Confess, defeated by the argument,~ That there 857 V| armed, all things naked of defence~ Readily yielded. Then by 858 II| Eager with armed valour to defend~ Their motherland, and ready 859 I| heroes, Danaan counsellors,~ Defiled Diana's altar, virgin queen,~ 860 V| That fear of punishments defiles each prize~ Of wicked days; 861 V| she is with extreme bounds defined,~ And just of the size. 862 IV| and from proper places~ Deflects the spurt of seed. And courtesans~ 863 V| tracts of age~ Glide on, defying the o'er-mighty powers~ 864 VI| thee,~ As by thy thought degraded, - not, indeed,~ That essence 865 II| to behold, to-day~ None deigns look upward to those lucent 866 V| removed~ From any touch of deity and seem~ So far unworthy 867 VI| menstruation-time.~ Once more, if thou delayest in hot baths,~ When thou 868 II| The sluggish olive-oil delays: no doubt,~ Because 'tis 869 IV| same to others~ Can seem delectable to eat, - why here~ So great 870 II| the body born~ Wounds, or delighteth as it passes out~ Along 871 IV| Likewise, he sits beside delightful spring~ Or river and gulpeth 872 VI| countenance~ Fierce and delirious, the tormented ears~ Beset 873 VI| more terrible to man~ Than Delphic laurel of Apollo lord.~ 874 IV| torrent, thus in love~ Venus deludes with idol-images~ The lovers. 875 V| young shoots in holes of delved loam,~ Or lop with hooked 876 V| named for him the name~ Demanded by the now known majesty~ 877 IV| vain.~ And now remains to demonstrate with ease~ How other senses 878 I| one.~ Wherefore, despite demur and counter-speech,~ Confess 879 III| be.~ ~ If one, moreover, denies that body feel,~ And holds 880 VI| roarings, and within those dens~ Bluster like savage beasts, 881 VI| wit, at such a time the densed clouds~ So mass themselves 882 VI| from the clouds of lighter density,~ None are sent forth forever. 883 I| true reason here~ Protests, denying that the mind can think 884 III| paltry man,~ Soon, soon departed, and thereafter, no,~ It 885 VI| Maketh a chain of rings, depending, lo,~ From off itself! Nay, 886 II| forth~ Thy fleets to swarm, deploying down the sea:~ For then, 887 V| The coasts of heaven and deploys the light,~ Either because 888 VI| chanced to collect~ And to derange the atmosphere of earth,~ 889 V| axes dire,~ Having them in derision! Again, when earth~ From 890 I| changed state, they must derive~ From others ever unconvertible,~ 891 II| laughs, and thinks)~ Is yet derived out of other seeds~ Which 892 I| things, and partly~ Unions deriving from the primal germs.~ 893 VI| thereunder, then into the same~ Descend in person, and that from 894 VI| Likewise less headlong his descending floods.~ It may be, too, 895 II| through thin air, must their descent,~ Each after its weight - 896 IV| thence revisiting their far descents~ When they have measured 897 II| Together at random, without design, in vain -~ And at last 898 II| pronounce~ The liquor's proper designation, him~ Let us permit to go 899 IV| of thy much preferred,~ Desirable dame. For so men do,~ Eyeless 900 I| would be left, beside~ The desolate space, and germs invisible.~ 901 II| myrrh and savours of honey despised;~ The swan's old lyric, 902 II| chief~ Are diamond stones, despisers of all blows,~ And stalwart 903 II| the primal bodies~ Remain despoiled alone of colour: so,~ Are 904 VI| since Nature thus~ Had destined; and from out what gates 905 I| piercing fire, those old destroyers three;~ But the more void 906 III| rent -~ Provided only thou destroyest not~ Wholly the ball, but, 907 II| Withdrawn from our affairs, detached, afar:~ Immune from peril 908 V| so long as fond delight detains;~ But whoso ne'er hath tasted 909 IV| sound perceive,~ Yet not determine what the words may mean;~ 910 VI| flame; thence followeth~ The detonation which attacks our ears~ 911 VI| And, lastly, why, with devastating bolt~ Shakes he asunder 912 II| the things~ Have touched development's top pinnacle;~ Then old 913 III| elder, and lament,~ Poor devil, his death more sorely than 914 VI| mortals~ Upsprang and flitted deviously about~ (Whether by chance 915 V| crack and roar~ Had there devoured to their deepest roots~ 916 VI| account, when night with dew-fraught shades~ Hath whelmed the 917 II| Nor tender willows, nor dew-quickened grass,~ Nor the loved streams 918 II| mirth,~ Or sprinkle with dewy tear-drops cheeks and chins,~ 919 V| declare to us~ Who by their diagrams have charted well~ Those 920 II| which sort the chief~ Are diamond stones, despisers of all 921 I| Danaan counsellors,~ Defiled Diana's altar, virgin queen,~ 922 II| that represents~ The arm'd Dictaean Curetes, who, in Crete,~ 923 II| hand,~ Do not refute this dictum nor oppose;~ But rather 924 III| days, yea, if thou never diest" -~ What were our answer, 925 IV| of some import~ Upon what diet life is nourished:~ For 926 II| That seeds have infinite differences in form,~ Lest thus thou 927 I| each word~ From one another differs both in sense~ And ring 928 IV| such~ Streams out of things diffusedly, because,~ Whilst coming 929 V| thuswise ether too,~ Light and diffusive, with concreted body~ On 930 IV| thou canst~ Distribute well digested to the frame~ And keep the 931 V| it not be seemly him~ To dignify by ranking with the gods? -~ 932 II| motes that leave each thing~ Diminish what they part from, but 933 VI| darkling air~ And the far din and rumblings? And O how~ 934 V| anywise endure~ Perpetual vain dingdong in their ears~ Of spoken 935 V| the Steeds~ Of Thracian Diomedes breathing fire~ From out 936 IV| forced off~ Backwards in line direct and not oblique, -~ Exactly 937 IV| Of mighty bulk; one hand directs the same,~ Whatever its 938 VI| With noisome stench. What direful stenches, too,~ Scaptensula 939 III| reverence and faith,~ Mid direst slaughter. For long ere 940 IV| voices raise their liquid dirge.~ ~ Thus, when from deep 941 VI| and face of men~ Vastly to disagree, and fixed diseases~ To 942 V| price, becomes at last~ A discard of no honour; whilst another~ 943 V| the sun could nowhere be discerned~ Flying far up with its 944 VI| from ulcers vile~ And black discharges of the belly, or else~ Through 945 V| in whom we mark~ Members discordant each with each; for ne'er~ 946 V| primal germs,~ Whose battling discords in disorder kept~ Interstices, 947 I| he in all),~ Though, as discoverers of much goodly truth,~ They 948 III| By baseless terror, nor discoverest oft~ What's wrong with thee, 949 IV| moments, which the reason~ Discovers to exist, therefore it comes~ 950 III| conceived~ Of more unlike, discrepant, ill-assorted,~ Than something 951 VI| mingled and gives forth discrete.~ And we have shown before 952 IV| Therefore with him~ I waive discussion - who has set his head~ 953 I| with eager service, thou disdain~ Before thou comprehendest: 954 III| besides that, when the frame's diseased,~ Soul sickens too, there 955 I| whilst in few verses now~ I disentangle how there still exist~ Bodies 956 II| what a force the water will disgorge~ Timber and beam? The deeper, 957 III| see fierce Want and foul Disgrace~ Dislodged afar from secure 958 V| modes may block and blot her disk.~ Again, she may revolve 959 III| third attempts~ With leg dismembered to arise and stand,~ Whilst, 960 V| Whose battling discords in disorder kept~ Interstices, and paths, 961 IV| winds,~ And strike the eyes, disordering their joints.~ So piecing 962 I| outward, nor can be~ Nowhere disparted - since all height and depth~ 963 VI| bubbles out sweet water and disparts~ From round itself the salt 964 VI| of the Birdless places,~ Dispels the air betwixt the ground 965 V| to divide its members and dispose~ Its mightier parts - that 966 III| Less like one eager to dispute the palm,~ More as one 967 II| Nor easily now is food disseminate~ Through all its veins; 968 VI| Through all our veins~ Disseminates the foods, and gives increase~ 969 III| Make sense to perish, by disseverment.~ There is indeed in mind 970 VI| fury-force of wind~ Then dissipated, like an ague-fit,~ Through 971 V| our members, those same distances~ Take nothing by those intervals 972 VI| of the clime and waters~ Distempered? - since conditions vary 973 V| Why do the seasons bring~ Distempers with them? Wherefore stalks 974 IV| Must too be plainly heard, distinctly marked.~ For then the voice 975 II| motions, all~ Which not alone distinguish living forms,~ But sunder 976 I| adore which hides~ Beneath distorted words, holding that true~ 977 III| concerning them,~ Suffer a sore distress. For shouldst thou gaze~ 978 VI| would yield their breath distressfully~ For so that Influence of 979 IV| what thou take thou canst~ Distribute well digested to the frame~ 980 V| sweet solaces of life, afar~ Distributed o'er populous domains,~ 981 V| Either when sun, after his diurnal course,~ Hath walked the 982 II| Themselves are finite in divergences,~ Then those which are alike 983 V| modes innumerable -~ After diverging fashions. For from sky~ 984 II| earth~ Are the distinct diversities of matter.~ Hence, further, 985 III| part of man.~ Mightily, diversly, meseems they err.~ Often 986 I| dissolved as soon~ As matter, diverted by what means soever~ From 987 II| the twain,~ And thereupon dividedly to see~ How the sweet water, 988 III| torn,~ He pities his state, dividing not himself~ Therefrom, 989 IV| happens - and through no divinity~ Nor arrows of Venus - that 990 VI| creatures with a wildering dizziness,~ And then thereafter, when 991 IV| again, the slippery serpent doffs~ Its vestments 'mongst the 992 V| north~ At rising of the dog-star of the year;~ Then cometh 993 II| Which in their turn are doing just the same.~ But if we 994 I| Who search for truth. For dolts are ever prone~ That to 995 V| Distributed o'er populous domains,~ Now soothe the minds of 996 V| sides bent itself~ Into a dome, and, far and wide diffused~ 997 III| another~ In interchange of dominance, that thus~ From all of 998 VI| felling a great tree~ With double-edged ax, it comes to pass~ Thine 999 VI| weight~ Bears downward, doubled is the swiftness then~ And 1000 V| newness then~ Would rouse no dour spells of the bitter cold,~