For just as children tremble and fear all In the viewless dark, so even we at times, dread in the light, so many things that be no whit more fearsome, than what children feign, shuddering, will be upon them in the dark. This terror then, this darkness of the mind, not sunrise with its flaring spokes of light, nor glittering arrows of morning can disperse, but only Nature's aspect and her law. Lucretius. The Nature of Things. Book 6.
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| Young boy portrayed as Hercules choking Hera's serpent Roman second half of 2nd century CE photographed at the Capitoline Museum in Rome. |
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