It is a truth both of thought and of imaginative feeling that there is a pervading and puissant energy in the world, manifesting itself most powerfully in animate and inanimate creation, when the deadness of winter gives place to the genial warmth of spring,- Tibi rident aequora ponti Placatumque nitet diffuso lumine caelum;- manifesting itself also in the human spirit in the form of genius, calling into life new feelings and fancies of the poet, and shaping them into forms of imperishable beauty.
"The Roman Poets of the Republic"
W. Y. Sellar
22, 'In caelum huius proavus Cato tollitur: magnus honos populi Romani rebus adiungitur.
"The Student's Companion to Latin Authors"
George Middleton Thomas R. Mills
Manat tota urbe rumor; Fabium ad caelum laudibus ferunt.
"Selections from Viri Romae"
Charles François L'Homond