Part 51 (2/2)

[Footnote 5: Biese, _Die Entwickelung des Naturgefuhls bei den Griechen und Romern_.]

[Footnote 6: _Melanges philosophiques, historiques, et litteraires_.]

[Footnote 7: _Homily_ 4.]

[Footnote 8: _Homily_ 6.]

[Footnote 9: Biese, _Die Entwickelung des Naturgefuhls bei den Griechen und Romern_.

'In spring the Cydmian apple trees give blossom watered by river streams in the hallowed garden of the nymphs; in spring the buds grow and swell beneath the leafy shadow of the vine branch. But my heart knoweth no season of respite; nay, like the Thracian blast that rageth with its lightning, so doth it bear down from Aphrodite's side, dark and fearless, with scorching frenzy in its train, and from its depths shaketh my heart with might.']

[Footnote 10: Comp. Biese, _op. cit._]

[Footnote 11: _Deutsche Rundschau_, 1879.]

[Footnote 12: Comp. Biese, _op. cit._]

[Footnote 13: Chrysostom was not only utilitarian, but praised and enjoyed the world's beauty. From the fifth to third century, Greek progress in feeling for Nature can be traced from unconscious to conscious pleasure in her beauty.]

[Footnote 14: _De Mortalitate_, cap. 4.]

[Footnote 15: _Geschichte der christlich-lateinischen Literatur_.]

[Footnote 16: When one thinks of Sappho, Simonides, Theocritus, Meleager, Catullus, Ovid, and Horace, it cannot be denied that this is true of Greek and Roman lyric.]

[Footnote 17: As in the Homeric time, when each sphere of Nature was held to be subject to and under the influence of its special deity.

But it cannot be admitted that metaphor was freer and bolder in the hymns; on the contrary, it was very limited and monotonous.]

[Footnote 18: In _Cathemerinon_.]

[Footnote 19: Comp. fragrant gardens of Paradise, Hymn 3.

In Hamartigenia he says that the evil and ugly in Nature originates in the devil.]

[Footnote 20: Ebert.]

[Footnote 21: The Robinsonade of the hermit Bonosus upon a rocky island is interesting.]

[Footnote 22: Comp. Biese, _op. cit._]

[Footnote 23: Comp. _ad Paulinum_, epist. 19, _Monum. German._ v. 2.]

[Footnote 24: _Carm. nat. 7._]

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