Listen to the latest Lucretius Today Podcast! Episode 227 is now available. This week the Epicurean spokesman Velleius begins his attack on traditional views of the nature of the gods.
VS10. Remember that you are mortal, and have a limited time to live, and have devoted yourself to discussions on Nature for all time and eternity, and have seen “things that are now and are to come and have been.”
Bailey: "Remember that you are of mortal nature and have a limited time to live and have devoted yourself to discussions on nature for all time and eternity and have seen ‘things that are now and are to come and have been’."
Bailey attributes VS10 to Metrodorus
"things...have been." Quoted from the Iliad, Book I, line 70:
"When he had thus spoken he sat down, and among them arose Calchas son of Thestor, far the best of bird-diviners, who knew the things that were, and that were to be, and that had been before, [70] and who had guided the ships of the Achaeans to Ilios by his own prophetic powers which Phoebus Apollo had bestowed upon him." Perseus Tufts
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