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The Roman Poets of the Republic, 2nd edition

Note 370 — Chapter XI · LUCRETIUS.—PERSONAL CHARACTERISTICS.

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'With death there is ever blending the wail of infants newly born into the light. And no night hath ever followed day, no morning dawned on night, but hath heard the mingled sounds of feeble infant wailings and of lamentations that follow the dead and the black funeral train.'—ii. 576-80.

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