Lucretius

[ loo-kree-shuhs ]

noun

1. Titus Lucretius Carus, 97?–54 b.c., Roman poet and philosopher.

Lucretius

/ luːˈkriːʃɪəs /

noun

1. Lucretius?96 bc55 bcMRomanWRITING: poetPHILOSOPHY: philosopher full name Titus Lucretius Carus. ?96–55 bc , Roman poet and philosopher. In his didactic poem De rerum natura, he expounds Epicurus' atomist theory of the universe

Derived Forms

• Luˈcretian, adjective

Other Words From

• Lu·cretian adjective

Example Sentences

In didactic poetry Lucretius was pre-eminent, and is regarded by Schlegel as the first of Roman poets in native genius.

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Even in Lucretius, he said, what was poetry was not philosophy, and what was philosophy was not poetry.

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Lucretius is scabrous and rough in these; he seeks them: as some do Chaucerisms with us, which were better expunged and banished.

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And hence we find the same sort of clumsiness in the Timaeus of Plato which characterizes the philosophical poem of Lucretius.

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Gilbert Wakefield, second wrangler in 1776, published an edition of Lucretius, and was a man of great ability and energy.

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