De rerum natura libri sex. Edited with Introduction and Commentary by W.E. Leonard and S.B. Smith. - Lucretius
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?The new edition of Lucretius is ?the result of newly life-long interests of two scholars which some fifteen years ago became merged in a cooperative enterprise?. Leonard has contributed the General Introduction. Smith is responsible for the text, the Commentary, and the Introcution to the Commentary. Their collaboration, helped by the craftsmanship of the University of Wisconsin Press, has produced a volume which no student of Lucretius, of the classics, of philosophic literature can afford to ignore. (?) My main objection is that one needs a critical text in addition. (?) But at least two things can be said in favour of this text. The editor has often introduced a fresh punctuation; and punctuation is interpretation. (?) Another improvement is that Smith does not share ?the queer dislike of capitals in what we call ?personifications? (?). So far as I know, he is the first Lucretian editor to print Natura time and again with a capital, likewise Voluptas, Magna Mater, Letum, Aetas, Mors, Fortuna, etc. (?) Not...
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Madison, 1942. 886p. Original red cloth. Spine gilt titled. Cover scratched. Corners a bit bumped. Library marks and labels to first pages. Occasionally some light, erasable pencil underlinings. (Rare).Antiquarian
?The new edition of Lucretius is ?the result of newly life-long interests of two scholars which some fifteen years ago became merged in a cooperative enterprise?. Leonard has contributed the General Introduction. Smith is responsible for the text, the Commentary, and the Introcution to the Commenta...
?The new edition of Lucretius is ?the result of newly life-long interests of two scholars which some fifteen years ago became merged in a cooperative enterprise?. Leonard has contributed the General Introduction. Smith is responsible for the text, the Commentary, and the Introcution to the Commenta...
