%0 Journal Article
%T Georgics 2.458¨C542: Virgil, Aratus and Empedocles
%A Damien Nelis
%J Dictynna : Revue de Po¨¦tique Latine
%D 2010
%I Universit¨¦ Lille-3
%X felix qui potuit rerum cognoscere causasatque metus omnis et inexorabile fatumsubiecit pedibus strepitumque Acherontis avari :fortunatus et ille deos qui novit agrestisPanaque Silvanumque senem Nymphasque sorores.In his discussion of the famous double makarismos of Georgics 2.490-4, Philip Hardie writes:   one wonders whether Virgil is deliberately exploiting an Empedoclean passage  . More recently, again in relation to the closing section of the second book of the Georgics, Alex Hardie has w...
%U http://dictynna.revues.org/161