| TRANSITION FROM LUCILIUS TO LUCRETIUS. | | Dearth of poetical works during the next half century | 269 | | Literary taste confined to the upper classes | 271 | | Great advance in Latin prose writing | 272 | | Influence of this on the style of Lucretius and Catullus | 273 | | Closer contact with the mind and art of Greece | 273 | | Effects of the political unsettlement on the contemplative life and thought | 275 | | "on the life of pleasure, and the art founded on it | 277 | | The two representatives of the thought and art of the time[page xiii] | 278 | |
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