The headlong downward career of the race as a whole cannot therefore be stopped vi et armis, and this can only be done by first letting it have a bitter experience of what intellect, depraved to the service of the Beast in Man, leads to, and then forcibly restraining those who persist in this madness.
"The Law and the Word"
Thomas Troward
The first feeling breaks forth in the passage at vi.
"The Roman Poets of the Republic"
W. Y. Sellar
They are severally mentioned where the argument is resumed in Books iii, iv, v, and vi, as those matters which require a clear explanation from the poet.
"The Roman Poets of the Republic"
W. Y. Sellar