Chapter 10 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[page xiii] 278