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De Rerum Natura III: 1 - 15
September 29, 2007 | Filed under: Latin Fun

Original Author: Lucretius
Copyright: N/A

In praise of Epicurus.

“E tenebris tantis tam clarum extollere lumen
qui primus potuisti inlustrans commoda vitae,
te sequor, o Graiae gentis decus, inque tuis nunc
ficta pedum pono pressis vestigia signis,
non ita certandi cupidus quam propter amorem
quod te imitari aveo; quid enim contendat hirundo
cycnis, aut quidnam tremulis facere artubus haedi
consimile in cursu possint et fortis equi vis?
tu pater es, rerum inventor, tu patria nobis
suppeditas praecepta, tuisque ex, inclute, chartis,
floriferis ut apes in saltibus omnia libant,
omnia nos itidem depascimur aurea dicta,
aurea, perpetua semper dignissima vita.
nam simul ac ratio tua coepit vociferari
naturam rerum, divina mente coorta,
diffugiunt animi terrores, moenia mundi
discedunt, totum video per inane geri res.”

You, who out of black darkness were first to lift up a shining light,
revealing the hidden blessings of life -
you are my guide, O glory of the Grecian race, in your
well-marked footprints now I plant my resolute steps.
It is from love alone that I long to imitate you, not from emulous ambition.
Shall the swallow contend in song with the swan, or the kid
match its rickety legs in a race with the strong-limbed steed?
You are the father, the discoverer of all things, with fatherly precepts
you supplied us, and from your writings, O glorious one,
as bees sipping everything in flower-filled glades,
similarly we are being fed by all of your golden words,
golden, always worthy of eternal life.
For as soon as your reasoning began to be proclaimed
on the nature of the universe, having risen from your divine intellect,
terrors of the soul flee, the walls of the world
part, I behold events happening throughout the whole of space.

Composed by Melissa at 5:34pm ·

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