How To Use Lucretius In A Sentence
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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
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It was dangerous territory in that sense, for Lucretius is a passionate and persuasive adversary.
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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
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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
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Lucretius" takes us once more into the classic period.
A Hero and Some Other Folks
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This interpretation was then bolstered by Tacitus' dry laconic wit and Lucretius' pagan atomism.
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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
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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
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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
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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
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From the fact that the vital fluid is born with the body, that it grows, develops, and declines along with it, Lucretius infers that the fluid must also be dissolved simultaneously with the body, scattered into the air like smoke: — "ergo dissolvi quoque convenit omnem animai naturam, ceu fumus, in altas aëris auras; quandoquidem gigni pariter pariterque videmus crescere et, ut docui, simul ævo fessa fatisci.
Lunheng
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In "Lucretius," Tennyson shows the moral apathy of materialism by letting us look on at a suicidal death, and hear the cry, half-rage and half-despair, "What is duty?" and in that fated cry, atheism has run its course.
A Hero and Some Other Folks
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Middle Ages, while others, such as Lucretius, Tacitus, and Manilius, although extant in a few but neglected medieval manuscripts, had to be rediscovered by the humanists.
HUMANISM IN ITALY
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There was melancholy, high and stately, such as Lucretius knew, when he went lonely among the homesteads or along the shore; but it was too exalted to be one with diffidence, for he who will hold the sum of things in his thoughts walks on clouds above the heads of men, free of all misgiving.
Apologia Diffidentis
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Though Poggio was responsible for many priceless finds—the works of Vitruvius and Quintilian, the letters of Cicero—it was thanks to his discovery in 1417 of the sole surviving manuscript of the Roman poet Lucretius' "On the Nature of Things" that, in Mr. Greenblatt's phrase, "the world swerved in a new direction.
How the Secular World Began
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Priapus ... prendam te tamen ', but it seems to be the meaning required at Lucretius II 532-35' nam _quod_ rara uides magis esse animalia quaedam/fecundamque minus naturam cernis in illis,/at regione locoque alio terrisque remotis/multa licet genere esse in eo numerumque repleri '.
The Last Poems of Ovid
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A voice rang out, a togate figure leaped to his feet: Quintus Lucretius Ofella.
Fortune's Favorites
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In this long Latin didactic poem, the epic poet Lucretius sought to free humans from the fear of death by explaining the true nature of things.
Mesoamerican Religion and Multiverses: Part One
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These atoms are in perpetual motion, but sometimes they swerve, and this swerve—what Lucretius called the "clinamen"—accounts not only for change in general but for the forms that develop in nature.
How the Secular World Began
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Lucretius is constantly urging his readers to follow their “sagacious” wits to the truth, like dogs hunting down quarry through the underbrush.
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Lucretius, a Roman poet whose philosophy to Santayana escaped both the irrational optimism of traditional idealism and the scientific finalities of raw materialism.
Dan Miller: "Harvard, We Have a Problem"
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She throws open the flood-gates of her heart as in words recalling Lucretius:
Wagner's "Tristan und Isolde"; an essay on the Wagnerian drama
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Attention was once more turned to affairs of State, and after one or two interregna had expired, P. Valerius Publicola, who had been interrex for two days, conducted the election of L. Lucretius Tricipitinus and T. Veturius Geminus-or Vetusius-as consuls.
The History of Rome, Vol. I
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Compare Lucretius II 300-1 'et quae consuerint gigni gignentur eadem/_condicione_ et erunt et crescent uique ualebunt'.
The Last Poems of Ovid
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From the fact that the vital fluid is born with the body, that it grows, develops, and declines along with it, Lucretius infers that the fluid must also be dissolved simultaneously with the body, scattered into the air like smoke: — "ergo dissolvi quoque convenit omnem animai naturam, ceu fumus, in altas aëris auras; quandoquidem gigni pariter pariterque videmus crescere et, ut docui, simul ævo fessa fatisci.
Lunheng
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Do not you believe that twenty name Lucretius because of the poetic commencement of his books, for five that wade through his philosophy?
The Letters of Horace Walpole, Earl of Orford — Volume 4
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Roman Philosopher Lucretius wrote: What is food to one man is bitter poison to others.
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A blistering attack on Lucretius' republican Epicurean poem underlies the poet's passionate Stoic hymns to the mystical order governing the multiplicity and diversity of creation.
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Dr. Mason Good translated "Lucretius" while riding to visit his patients in London.
Pushing to the Front
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As Lucretius has stated, naught from naught can be created.
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At I 313-16, Lucretius, discussing the invisible wearing away of substances, says 'stilicidi casus _lapidem_ cauat, uncus aratri/_ferreus_ occulte decrescit uomer in aruis,/strataque iam uolgi pedibus detrita uiarum/saxea conspicimus'.
The Last Poems of Ovid
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Many people are attracted to power and wealth (as we saw in Lucretius) because such qualities give us an apparent feeling of security and release us from fear.
Fear Makes The World Go Round
