Second Period
The Close of the Republic
Chapter X Transition From Lucilius to Lucretius
| Dearth of poetical works during the next half century | 269 |
| Literary taste confined to the upper classes | 271 |
| Great advance in Latin prose writing | 272 |
| Influence of this on the style of Lucretius and Catullus | 273 |
| Closer contact with the mind and art of Greece | 273 |
| Effects of the political unsettlement on the contemplative life and thought | 275 |
| ″ on the life of pleasure, and the art founded on it | 277 |
| The two representatives of the thought and art of the time | 278 |