T. Lucreti Cari De rerum natura libri sex, with notes and a translation by H.A.J. Munroe ...

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cuse This ery year three centuries have lapse sine Lambinus

publishod thoirst ditio of his Lucrotius and Do that a tothis nothin no an systematical nothin that display palus

and ossare has sese dono for tho lucidatio of ur author. Transcendantis are the mortis of that illustrious scholar, hal

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ΡRE FACE TO THE HIR EDITION

been enlarge by the substanee, at leas siit pages, chiest through a

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Tu proson odition is divide into thro volumes, tho rs containing tho ex an critica notes, tho Secon the commentar and genera index the hir tho translation. Th tox is practicali th samo as in the las editionci in no

bolor through accident a Was explaino at the nd of the index. There are a te additions nos more than halna-dogon to the critical notes thes have been inserto in quare bracheis. The translationio has undergoneis change. In tho commentar thor aro fe alterations ut considorabis addition amountinii altrio more than ment pages TheS Supplementar noto an illustrations have been ahen rom an interleavod

FEB. 18, 1886.

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I INTRODUCTIONsrs hal o tho twolith contur had ahen in line rom the poem lseli; or ad horro exit rom Priscian inst. 1 27 ho cites it illi nosco instoaro gigni tho editoris the bibliotheca hining thought fit tacitlyto substituto gigni rom Lucretius. alio latior is prove to e the iactis, Julius Josson in in philologus, vol. 30 pp. 236-238 h quotes

What odoW iro Barthius' very earne note o Stat silv I Job: nec vero cadentibus aut collapsis iam rebus Romanis auctoritatem suam amisit Lucretius noster, ut videre potes apud Magnentium Rhabanum prasitatione Laudum Daedalarum rugis, Gulielmum Hirsaugiensem in Institutionibus hilosophicis et Astrologicis, Honorium Augustodunen

in quoslion, and that Widiam cites it inus: Ex insensili credas sensito nasci', etfiniit clearly the iro Priscian rabanus Maurus and Beda dem iust a lituo to have linown Lucretius Mirst harid. Hermes

vo 84 332, it is sal that in Brit. Mus. s. 377 13th century oi Danio de ortus Philosophia, in p. 90 a Lucretius is quoted J

Mantua During these ears e procured rom various monasteri es many mos important Latin Work Ilitherio totali unknown in Italy goo Melius profae to his life o Ambrosius raversarin p. XXXm est. Among theso was a manuscripti Lucretius, obtaine apparenti irom S e German monasternetineri himis his companion Bartholome o Montepesciano ab ut 1417 as his letters seem to ind1cate and transmittod the samo year torius intimate frien in Florentino Nicolo 1ccoli, a mos 40alous schola an patronii the revived classicia studies.

poem, has itseli dis perered, ut Was the parentii every 0py rittenduring tho 15th century that is to sanes every nemo extant,ain the exception es hos spodissed aboves it mustinave ery, sely resembled tho Leyden otio. Et te, Lucreti, longo post tempore tandem Civibus et patriae reddit habere suae says Lundinus in his poem in rais ol ggio Niceoli harinisuch a reasure in his hand Was in no hurr to

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octavo septembris calen Octobris'. It was printe from a uis closely re