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ridicules the so-called poems of nature, which have only the mere external 

 form of poetry (De Aud. Poet. p. 27, Steph.) The Stagirite (De Poet. c. L) 

 considers Empedocles rather a physiologist than a poet, having nothing in 

 common with Homer, except the measure in which his verses are written. 



(^ p. 16. "It may seem strange to endeavour to connect poetry, which 

 rejoices always in variety, form, and colour, with those ideas which are most 

 simple and abstruse ; but it is not the less correct. Poetry, science, philo- 

 sophy, and history, are not in themselves, and essentially, divided from each 

 other ; they are united, either where man's particular stage of progress places 

 him in a state of unity, or where the true poetic mood restores him to such a 

 state (Wilhelm von Humboldt, gesammelte Werke, Bd. i. S. 98102. 

 Compare also Bernhardy, rom. Litteratur, S. 215 218, and Friedrich 

 Schlegel's sammtliche Werke, Bd. i. S. 108110. Cicero (ad Quint, 

 fratrem, ii. 11) indeed ascribes to Lucretius, who Virgil, Ovid, and Quintilian, 

 have praised so highly, more art than creative talent (ingenium). 

 (24) p . 17 Lucret. Lib. v. V. 9301455. 



f 5 ) p. 17. Plato, Phsedr. p. 230 ; Cicero de Leg. i. 5, 15, ii. 2, 13, 

 ii. 3, 6 (compare "Wagner, Comment Perp. in Cic. de Leg. 1804, p. 6) ; 

 Cic. de Oratore, i. 7, 28 (p. 15 EUendt). 



(^ p. 17. See the excellent work of Rudolph Abeken, Rector of the 

 Gymnasium at Osnabriick, published in 1835, under the title of Cicero in 

 seinen Briefen, S. 431434. The valuable addition relative to Cicero's 

 birthplace is by H. Abeken, the learned nephew of the author, who was 

 formerly chaplain to the Prussian embassy at Rome, and is now taking part 

 in the important Egyptian expedition of Lepsius. Respecting the place of 

 Cicero's birth, see also Valery, Voy. hist, en Italic, T. iii. p. 421. 

 f 7 ) p. 18. Cic. Ep. ad Atticum, xii. 9 and 15. 



.(*) ^ 19. The passages from Virgil adduced by Malte-Brun (Annales des 

 Voyages, T. iii. 1808, p. 235266) as being actual local descriptions, merely 

 shew that the poet was acquainted with the productions of different countries : 

 that he knew the saffron of Mount Tmolus, the incense of the Sabeans, the 

 true names of several small rivers, aud even the mephitic vapours which rise 

 from a cavern in the Apennines near Amsanctus. 



p) p. 19. Virg. Georg. i. 356392, iii. 349380 ; JEn. iii. 191211, 

 iv/,246 251, iv. 522528, xii. 684689. 



C) p. 20. Kosmos, Bd. i. S. 252 and 453 (English edit. Vol. i. p. 230, 

 Note 230). As separate pictures of natural scenes, compare Ovid, Met. i. 

 568576, iii. 155164, iii. 407 412, vii. 180188, xv. 296306; 



