Georgics : didactic poem of 2,188 hexameter lines in four books by Virgil.
... stars are Lucretius and Sri Aurobindo. In Book I of De Rerum Natura Lucretius promises to reveal the ultimate realities of heaven and the gods. Applauding this attempt of his Virgil, in his Georgics, identifies him as the poet "who hath availed to know the causes of things and hath laid all fears and immitigable Fate and the roar of hungry Acheron under his feet." 2 Sri Aurobindo also attempts ...
... conception, with results which are a lesson and a warning to all posterity. Lucretius' work lives only, in spite of the majestic energy behind it, by its splendid digressions into pure poetry, Virgil's Georgics by fine passages and pictures of Nature and beauties of word and image; but in both the general substance is lifeless matter which has floated to us on the stream of Time, saved only by the beauty ...
... preparing Love and Death for publication Page 570 in 1920, he dropped both the dedication and the introduction. The first of the two Latin quotations, from Virgil's Georgics (3.8 - 9), may be translated: "A path . . . by which I too may lift me from the dust, and float triumphant through the mouths of men". The second, from Horace's Satires (2.7.21, with a change ...
... of Ujjayinī, 481, 501-3,601,602 Vikramaputra, 502 Vincent, Father Hugues, v Vindhyasakti, 11, 12, 13,192,522 Vipāśa (Hyphasis, Beas), 175 Virasena, 594 Virgil: Georgics. 174 Vishnu, 142 Vishnu Purāna, 10, 11,91, 103, 105, 106, 107, 204,206.274,522 Vishnu-dhvaja, 398 Vishnugupta. 486,487,494 Vishnukada Chutukulānda Sātakarni, 473-4 ...
... both of them writing in the 1st century A.D. as contemporaries of Diodorus. Ovid has the phrase: "terra Gangetis" ("the land of the Ganges"). It stands in general for India. Virgil, in his Georgics (111.26-27), writes: In foribus pugnam ex auro solidoque elephanto Gāngāridum faciam victorisque arma Quirini. Dryden renders the lines: High o'er the gate in elephant ...
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