lucretius in English

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( circa 94– circa 55 bc ) , Roman poet and philosopher; full name Titus Lucretius Carus . His didactic epic poem On the Nature of Things is an exposition of the materialist atomist physics of Epicurus.

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1. (27) The torch thrown by Allecto corresponds to the fiery soul in Lucretius; (28) but Turnus

2. Atomism definition: an ancient philosophical theory, developed by Democritus and expounded by Lucretius , Meaning, pronunciation, translations and examples

3. What does Atomism mean? The ancient theory of Democritus, Epicurus, and Lucretius, according to which simple, minute, indivisible, and indestruc

4. Brutus, leaving Lucretius in command of the city, proceeded with armed men to the Roman army then camped at Ardea.

5. Whence Lucretius sang concerning those amorous Bewitchings: The body smitten is, but yet the mind Is wounded with the darts of Cupid blind

6. The emperor Augustus introduced an Archaistic revival of ancient virtue and ancient religion, which caused the poem of Lucretius On the Nature of Things to become unpopular, and it …

7. 1946, Bertrand Russell, History of Western Philosophy, I.27: The emperor Augustus introduced an Archaistic revival of ancient virtue and ancient religion, which caused the poem of Lucretius On the Nature of Things to become unpopular, and it remained so until the Renaissance

8. From Lucretius, De Rerum Natura: medio de fonte leporum surgit Aliquid amari quod in ipsis floribus angat, 'from the very centre of a fountain of delights arises something bitter that chokes us in our prime (lit: in our very flowering)'

9. The lower inscription, from the Roman poet Lucretius, says, "There is no greater joy than to hold high aloft the serene abodes well Bulwarked by the learning of the wise." Northern views Below is a photo depicting the north façade of Alexander Hall.

10. In physics, horror vacui, or plenism (/ ˈ p l iː n ɪ z əm /), commonly stated as "nature Abhors a vacuum", is a postulate attributed to Aristotle, who articulated a belief, later criticized by the atomism of Epicurus and Lucretius, that nature contains no vacuums because the denser surrounding material continuum would immediately fill the rarity of an incipient void.