Note 520 — DECEMBER.
Reading edition
Perennial Calendar, Dec. 2.
[521] These stanzas are very little more than an amplification of the well known lines of Lucretius,
Suave mari magno turbantibus æquora ventis, E terrâ magnum alterius spectare laborem.
Cicero has expressed the same sentiment in his “De Natura;” see also lord Bacon and Rochefoucau amongst the moderns.
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