Need Latin translation

[Vlacko]

I saw in one book this Latin sentence:

"Novitas tum florida mundi"

So I would apreciate if someone could translate this for me.
Thanks!

[Babelfish]

Seems to be something like "the newness then freshness of the world". Probably can be expressed better, but I'm not such a Latin expert

[kibo]

It's from the "De Rerum Natura" (On the nature of things) by Lucretius. It's hard to translate it out of the context:


multaque praeterea novitas tum florida mundi
pabula dura tulit, miseris mortalibus ampla.

And if I'm not mistaken, these lines were translated into English by William Ellery Leonard like this:

And many coarse foods, too, in long ago
The blooming freshness of the rank young world
Produced, enough for those poor wretches there.

HTH

[cweb255]

Indeed, it ought not to be taken out of context, which literally render it nonsense. Shouldn't everyone know Lucretius by now? Curious, what book are you referring to?