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Definition of Lucretius

1. Noun. Roman philosopher and poet; in a long didactic poem he tried to provide a scientific explanation of the universe (96-55 BC).

Definition of Lucretius

1. Proper noun. ( male given name) of mostly historical use in English. ¹

2. Proper noun. Titus Lucretius Carus, a Roman poet and philosopher. ¹

¹ Source: wiktionary.com

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Literary usage of Lucretius

Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:

1. The Classical World by Classical Association of the Atlantic States (1908)
"In the case of lucretius, however, from each of these sources our knowledge is known to be extremely meager. In fact, as Professor Sellar has well observed ..."

2. Teuffels̓ History of Roman Literature by Wilhelm Sigismund Teuffel (1891)
"It would be more just from lucretius imitations of Cicero's ... Horace shows his acquaintance with lucretius in several passages in his Satires, eg 1,1, ..."

3. Transactions and Proceedings of the American Philological Association by American philological association (1898)
"The greater part of lucretius V. and all of VI. might be summarized in ... Nor was the tremendous earnestness of lucretius any part of Horace's ingenium. ..."

4. Classical Quarterly by Classical Association (Great Britain) (1908)
"PROFESSOR MERRILL'S main object, he tells us, is to ' bring into compact form the results of critical work' on lucretius since 1886, the date of Munro's ..."

5. The Roman Poets of the Augustan Age: Virgil by William Young Sellar (1908)
"lucretius uses poetry as the vehicle of science, Virgil as the instrument ... Still, that Virgil regarded lucretius as his technical model may be inferred ..."

6. Literary Anecdotes of the Nineteenth Century: Contributions Towards a by William Robertson Nicoll, Thomas James Wise (1896)
"By no possible stretch of language could lucretius be claimed as an idyll, whether " of the King " or " of the Hearth"; but it shows, equally with Enoch ..."

7. The Anglo-Saxon Review by Randolph Spencer Churchill (1899)
"lucretius ON LIFE AND DEATH IN THE METRE OF OMAR KHAYYAM WITH PREPARATORY NOTE BY WH MALLOCK i CHOLARS have often observed—and it was observed by Fitzgerald ..."

8. Classical Philology by University of Chicago press, JSTOR (Organization) (1906)
"On the Influence of lucretius on Horace. By WILLIAM A. MERRILL. ... It aims apparently to connect the influence of lucretius with periods of addiction to ..."

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