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" Felix, qui potuit rerum cognoscere causas, Atque metus omnes et inexorabile fatum Subiecit pedibus strepitumque Acherontis avari. "
Selections from Vergil, ed. with notes and vocabulary by E.S. Shuckburgh - Page 14
by Publius Vergilius Maro - 1883
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The Conversion of Winckelmann and Other Poems

Alfred Austin - English literature - 1897 - 176 pages
...Sistat, et ingenti ramorum protegat umbra ? Felix, qui potuit rerum cognoscere causas, Atque metus omnes et inexorabile fatum Subiecit pedibus strepitumque...agrestes, Panaque Silvanumque senem Nymphasque sorores. Ilium non populi fasces, non purpura regum Flexit et infidos agitans discordia fratres, Aut coniurato...
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Eos, Volumes 4-6

Classical philology - 1897 - 888 pages
...worti esse locum, sed viva volare sideris in numerum atque alto suc^edere caelo. Por. Georg. II, 490: Felix, qui potuit rerum cognoscere causas atque metus...fatum subiecit pedibus strepitumque Acherontis avari (Lucret. III, 37: Et metus ille foras praeceps Acherunlis agendus, funditus humanam qui vitam turbat...
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Dictionary of Quotations (classical)

Thomas Benfield Harbottle - Quotations - 1897 - 670 pages
..." Blest lot ! yet lacked one blessing more. That Troy had never touched my shore."— (Coninghm.) " Felix, qui potuit rerum cognoscere causas, Atque metus omnis et inexorabile fatum Subjecit pedibus strepitumque Acherontis avari ! Fortunatus et ille, déos qui novit agrestis, Panaque...
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Still Rebels, Still Yankees and Other Essays

Donald Davidson - History - 1999 - 312 pages
..."Georgic": Felix, qui potuit rerum cognoscere causas, Atque metus omnes et inexorabile fatum Subjecit pedibus strepitumque Acherontis avari. Fortunatus...agrestes Panaque Silvanumque senem Nymphasque sorores. Ilium non populi fasces, non purpura regum Flexit et infidos agitans discordia fratres, Aut conjurato...
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Essays in the Philosophy of Religion: Based on the Sarum Lectures, 1971

Henry Habberley Price - Philosophy - 1972 - 138 pages
...may remember the splendid but slightly ironical lines which Virgil wrote about him in the Georgics : Felix qui potuit rerum cognoscere causas, atque metus...inexorabile fatum Subiecit pedibus, strepitumque Acherontis avari.1 You may also remember the remark which someone made to Robespierre : 'fitre Supreme, fitre...
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The Georgics of Virgil: A Critical Survey

L. P. Wilkinson - History - 1969 - 392 pages
...praecordia sanguis, rura mihi et rigui placcant in vallibus amnes, flumina amem silvasque inglorius . . . felix qui potuit rerum cognoscere causas, atque metus...Acherontis avari. fortunatus et ille deos qui novit agrestis . . . As for me, above all else I would that the sweet Muses whose devotee I am, smitten with...
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The Stoic Tradition from Antiquity to the Early Middle Ages, Volume 1

Marcia l. Colish - History - 1985 - 468 pages
...the Stoic, a point that seems evident when the whole passage in which the line occurs is considered: Felix qui potuit rerum cognoscere causas atque metus...Acherontis avari: fortunatus et ille deos qui novit agrestis Panque Silvanumque senem Nymphasque sorores. Illum non populi fusces, non purpura regum flexit...
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The Pagan Background of Early Christianity

William Reginald Halliday - Religion - 1925 - 356 pages
...is the true hope of escape from the chances and changes of this mortal life. Felix qui potuit rerurn cognoscere causas, Atque metus omnis et inexorabile Fatum Subiecit pedibus, strepitumque Acherontis auari.1 I. " Happy he who was able to apprehend the causes of things and rabdued beneath his feet all...
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Lettres à Alexis: histoire sentimentale d'une pensée

Mécislas Golberg - 1992 - 184 pages
...A ALEXIS Félix qui potuit rerum cognoscere causas, Atque metus omnes et inexorabile fatum Subjecit pedibus, strepitumque Acherontis avari ! Fortunatus et ille deos qui novit agrestes, Panaque, Sylvanumque senem, Nymphasque sorores ! VIRGILE, Gmrgujua, liv. II, v. 490. Mon opinion est qu'il se...
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Studi di storia della storiografia romana

Luciano Canfora - History - 1993 - 332 pages
...questo senso prende spiccata luce il celebre testimonium virgiliano su Lucrezio: Georgiche II, 490 sgg. «felix qui potuit rerum cognoscere causas / atque...subiecit pedibus strepitumque Acherontis avari». Il personaggio qui chiamato in causa è certamente Lucrezio; credo che le successive indicazioni («illum...
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