Lucretius
noun
Titus Lucretius Carus, 97?–54 b.c., Roman poet and philosopher.
Lucretian
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a word derived from
Lucretius.
Example Sentences
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It is this more easygoing Lucretian, Baconian, Charltonian approach which eventually became that of the Royal Society and of eighteenth-century science, in contradistinction to the far bolder one of Montaigne and Descartes.
From "The Invention of Science" by David Wootton
In the Lucretian universe the gods are indifferent to human beings, and human beings are an accidental consequence of the random jostling together of atoms.
From "The Invention of Science" by David Wootton
How did he know that it involved Lucretian atomism?
From "The Invention of Science" by David Wootton
What conglomerate plebeian speech of our time could utter the stately grandeur of these Lucretian words, every one of which is noble, and wears the toga?
From The Sense of Beauty Being the Outlines of Aesthetic Theory by George Santayana
It would be difficult to parallel such Lucretian passages in Greek poetry.
From Sketches and Studies in Italy and Greece, Third series by John Addington Symonds
