Want to create an interactive transcript for this episode?
Podcast: Lucretius Today - Epicurus and Epicurean Philosophy
Episode: Episode 080 - The Development of Metallurgy And The Art of War
Description: In Episode 80 we will cover Latin lines 1226-1341 of Book Five. We will discuss the development metallurgy and other aspects of the art of war. Now let's join Don reading today's text:Browne 1743[1226] And when the raging force of a violent storm upon the sea tosses the admiral of a fleet over the waves, with all his elephants and his stout legions about him, does not he fall to praying to the gods for pity? And, trembling upon his knees, begs a peace of the winds, and a prosperous gale? In vain! For he is often...