The Conditionalist Faith of Our Fathers, vol. 1

CHAPTER THIRTY-FIVE: Pathetic Despair Predominant Among Roman Thinkers

In the great bulk of Latin and Greek literature belonging to the last century before Christ and the first century after, a strain of despair echoes and re-echoes through the prose and poetry of Rome-lyric, elegiac, tragic, and philosophic. CFF1 617.1