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    De rerum natura (Latin: [deː ˈreːrʊn naːˈtuːraː]; On the Nature of Things) is a first-century BC didactic poem by the Roman poet and philosopher Lucretius...
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  • De natura rerum may refer to: De rerum natura, a didactic poem by Lucretius De natura rerum (Bede), a treatise by Bede De natura rerum, a treatise by Isidore...
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    De rerum natura (usually translated as On the Nature of Things) is a philosophical epic poem written by Lucretius in Latin around 55 BCE. The poem was...
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    poet and philosopher. His only known work is the philosophical poem De rerum natura, a didactic work about the tenets and philosophy of Epicureanism, which...
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    monastic libraries. His most celebrated finds are De rerum natura, the only surviving work by Lucretius, De architectura by Vitruvius, lost orations by Cicero...
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    De natura rerum (or Liber de natura rerum) is a thirteenth century work of natural history, written by Flemish Roman Catholic friar and medieval writer...
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  • later) was composed in 1966. The title was inspired by Lucretius's De rerum natura (On the nature of things). As the title suggests, it is a vigorous...
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    extended treatment of Epicurean sexuality in his philosophical work De rerum natura; Catullus (fl. 50s BC), whose poems explore a range of erotic experience...
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    Oxford Latin Dictionary, the phrase is attributed to Lucretius in his De rerum natura where he used the term as an epithet to describe an earth goddess:...
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    attestations of his ideas from his later disciples. The epic poem De rerum natura (Latin for "On the Nature of Things") by Lucretius presents the core...
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    and the first person to translate the complete text of Lucretius's De rerum natura (On the Nature of Things) into English verse, during the years of the...
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    summer months Roman Epicurean poet Lucretius opened his didactic poem De rerum natura by addressing Venus as a veritable mother of nature. Lucretius used...
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    De natura rerum ("on the nature of things") is a treatise by the Anglo-Saxon monk Bede, composed in 703 as a companion-piece to his De temporibus ('on...
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  • orator and poet. He is most famous as the dedicatee of Lucretius' De Rerum Natura, and for his appearances in the poetry of Catullus. Memmius was born...
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    Alfonso III Carafa, Duke of Nocera. In 1565 appeared his great work De Rerum Natura Iuxta Propria Principia (On the Nature of Things according to their...
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  • version of the expression was coined by Lucretius, who stated in his De rerum natura that "nothing can be created out of nothing". Alternatives to creatio...
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  • Lucretius (De rerum natura, 5.198–9) as having one of the strongest arguments for atheism: Nequaquam nobis divinitus esse paratam Naturam rerum; tanta stat...
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    use it. What happens to exist is the cause of its use. — Lucretius, De rerum natura [On the Nature of Things] 4, 833 The chief instance, and the largest...
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  • Callimachus's hymns. In Latin famous works include Lucretius's philosophical De rerum natura, Virgil's Eclogues and Georgics, book 10 of Columella's manual on agriculture...
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    Britannica. Vol. 25 (11th ed.). Cambridge University Press. p. 161. De Rerum Natura III Revue archéologique, 1904 Sansonese, J. Nigro. The Body of Myth...
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  • obsessive book hunter, saved the last copy of the Roman poet Lucretius's De rerum natura (On the Nature of Things) from near-terminal neglect in a German monastery...
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    Atheist" of Melos. In ancient Rome, an early known example is Lucretius' De rerum natura from the 1st century BCE. Every exclusive religion on Earth (as well...
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    Horace, Satires 2, VI. 114. Lucan, Pharsalia, IV. 440. Lucretius, De rerum natura, V. 1063. Martial, Epigram, XII. I. 1. Nemesianus, Cynegetica, 107...
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    the hydrological cycle is outlined by the Roman Epicurean Lucretius' De rerum natura (vi.631-38). Strabo: "The sea was raised by an earthquake and it submerged...
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    the main figures reflects the description of them by Lucretius in de rerum natura ("The Nature of Things"): "though Mars the War Lord rules war’s savage...
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    was Lucretius' Epicurean epic De rerum natura. G. B. Conte notes, citing the programmatic statement "Felix, qui potuit rerum cognoscere causas" in Georgics...
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    Collection in the University Library, Cambridge. ISBN 0521294363. "LXVI". De Natura Deorum. Cambridge University Press. 1880 – via Internet Archive. Arnaud...
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    rediscovered in the 15th century by Poggio Bracciolini among works such as De Rerum natura. Many artists attempted to design figures which would satisfy Vitruvius'...
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    inspiration for the painting seems to have been the poem by Lucretius "De rerum natura", which includes the lines, "Spring-time and Venus come, and Venus'...
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    Flat Earth (category CS1 German-language sources (de))
    in Isidore's De natura rerum", Isis, 71 (1980): 268–77. Stevens, Wesley M. (1980). "The Figure of the Earth in Isidore's "De natura rerum"". Isis. 71 (2):...
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