Lucretius

How To Use Lucretius In A Sentence

• The Epicureans, not being able to shut their eyes against this glaring difficulty, that strikes at the very foundation of their whole system, have, for a last shift, invented what Lucretius calls clinamen -- by which is meant a motion somewhat declining or bending from the straight line, and which gives atoms the occasion to meet and encounter. The Existence of God
• It was dangerous territory in that sense, for Lucretius is a passionate and persuasive adversary. The Nose Knows : A.E. Stallings : Harriet the Blog : The Poetry Foundation
• Lucretius invoked the swerve (clinamen) not only to explain the creation of things but also to account for the freedom of the will. The First Quantum Cosmologist
• Aristotle; all those subsequently repeated by Lucretius and Ovid; all the experiments of the renowned Abbé Spallanzani -- all the alleged "fantastic assumptions" of M. Bonnet -- all the theories of "panspermism," by whomsoever advocated -- all the fortuitous aggregations of "_molecules organiques, _" as put forth by the French school of materialists -- all the Life: Its True Genesis
• Lucretius" takes us once more into the classic period. A Hero and Some Other Folks
• This interpretation was then bolstered by Tacitus' dry laconic wit and Lucretius' pagan atomism.
• But Lucretius 'true tendency is to express an ordered vision of the life of man, with great vigour of real poetic image and often acute observation. quod petiere, premunt arte faciuntque dolorem corporis et dentes inlidunt saepe labellis osculaque adfligunt, quia non est pura voluptas et stimuli subsunt qui instigant laedere id ipsum quodcumque est, rabies unde illaec germina surgunt ... Dante
• The word is used in the same sense as in Lucretius, v. Tum caput atque humeros planis redimire coronis. Conspiracy of Catiline and the Jurgurthine War
• Lucretius asks the same question: — "Quod si Juppiter atque alii fulgentia divi terrifico quatiunt sonitu cælestia templa et jaciunt ignem quo qoiquest cumque voluptas, cur quibus incautum scelus aversabile cumquest non faciunt icti flammas ut fulguris halent pectore perfixo, documen mortalibus acre, et potius nulla sibi turpi conscius in re volvitur in flammis innoxius inque peditur turbine cælesti subito correptus et igni? cur etiam loca sola petunt frustraque laborant? Lunheng
• It paused for a moment, and mouthed on: 'I can cap your Lucretius too with "_Usque adeo res humanas vis abdita ---- _"' It seemed that for a moment the speaker stayed before the door where all three held their breaths. Privy Seal His Last Venture