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relations of our senses.
Merely for the purpose of finding our bearings it may be
helpful to compare and contrast a few instances of literature
and art in the newly literate Greek world, on one hand, and the
nonliterate world, on the other.
It is significant, however, that the Romans did go beyond
the Greeks in the awareness of visual properties:
Lucretius is neither speaking of, nor interested in, the
problems of representation. His description of the purely
optical phenomena does, however, go considerably
beyond the cautious observations of Euclid. It is a
complete description, not of the expanding visual cone,
but of the apparent cone of contraction, or diminution,