well illustrates it by pugnant proeliant, turbas lites, morbum mortem, donum praemium, from Plautus and Terence. XII 906 vacuum per inane is still more loosely put for the air. 116 per inane seems loosely put for the air which serves as a place for these motes to move about in, and therefore is to them what the real inane is to the atoms: just below 151 he contrasts the air which is not inane vacuum with 158 the real inane vacuum : Aen. I 151 qua se Plena per insertas fundebat luna fenestras. cumque: I know no other example of cumque following cum. I 187 Contemplator item cum: 1v 61 Contemplator. 114 Contemplator enim cum recurs vi 189: Virg. simulacrum and imago are exactly synon.: in IV he regularly uses imago or imaginibus, simulacra in the plur. 112 uti memoro = ita uti eam memoro: Iv 749 Haec fieri ut memoro. with this sic deinde locutus for sic loc. 106 longe longeque, as 98 magnis, is of course relative: far only in respect of the extremely small atom.ġ11 etiam seems clearly to have reference to recepta: quamvis recepta, tamen non potuere etiam consociare: comp. fera ferri: Cicero and Tibullus thus play with the assonance ferus et ferreus. 103 radices: these lay the first foundations or roots of stone. ![]() 251 says of his atoms 'the parts of all homogeneal hard bodies which fully touch one another, stick together very strongly': but he adds and for explaining how this may be, some have invented hooked atoms, which is begging the question'. x 43 calls ai πλεκτικαί: being therefore πλεκτικαί, they get perplexae, intricately twined or matted together. elementis 394 hamatis inter se perque plicatis II 331 Inplexis principiis: the atoms are of shapes which are fitted to twine together such atoms Epicurus himself in Diog. 102 perplexis fig.: 459 perplexis indupedita 463 e perplexis. mean leaving great or small spaces between, with great or small spaces between: the great and small are of course relative merely, and have reference to the extremely minute atoms: the great distance would be inconceivably small in relation to anything of sensible magnitude: comp. v1 862 diu pendent per mutua fulti Bracchia: the abl. 98 confulta is a drag λeyóp.: if the word is right, which is somewhat doubtful, it must mean, resting and pressing one against the other, mutuo fulta: comp. 97 exercita: 120 Conciliis et discidiis exercita crebris iv 862 exercita motu. ![]() I 988-1007.ĩ6 reddita in this sense of assigned as a property or the like is very common in Lucr.: see 65 Reddita mobilitas cet. notice the poetical tautology to emphasise what he says, sine fine modoque, inmensum patere in cunctas partis and undique ostendi and probatumst and comp. vi 1052 neque habet qua tranet ut ante Livy xxvii 12 3 nec ubi consisteret. 91 for the position of corpora in the second clause see n. wrongly introduces it by conjecture into two other places but it recurs I believe vi 1012: for demonstr. 85 ictu alterius, the motion avw KaTà wλnyǹv kaì waλμóv: therefore he adds forte, because this motion is only casual. 84 this is the κίνησις κατὰ στάθμην or natural motion sheer downwards.
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