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Georgics 2.458–542: Virgil, Aratus and EmpedoclesAbstract: 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...
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