Lucretius
Americannoun
noun
Other Word Forms
Example Sentences
Examples are provided to illustrate real-world usage of words in context. Any opinions expressed do not reflect the views of Dictionary.com.
Epicurus and Lucretius saw the fear of death as our most debilitating fear, and they argued that we must overcome this fear if we were going to live happy lives.
From Textbooks • Jun. 15, 2022
Lucretius “Lucky” Flickerman: The host of the 10th Hunger Games is a “clownish” weatherman with an uncooperative, mangy parrot for his sidekick.
From Slate • May 22, 2020
In matters of philosophy, he denounced Romanticism, recovered the teachings of Lucretius, and provoked Nietzsche, Mach, James, Hilbert, and Wittgenstein.
From Scientific American • Nov. 10, 2019
Lucretius, as Greenblatt notes in “The Swerve,” called his own poem “honey smeared around the lip of a cup containing medicine that a sick man might otherwise refuse to drink.”
From Washington Post • Sep. 28, 2017
The passage originally contained a single direct quotation from Lucretius, but two more were added in 1588, and we will see in a moment that it is directly inspired by Lucretius on foedus naturae.
From "The Invention of Science" by David Wootton
Definitions and idiom definitions from Dictionary.com Unabridged, based on the Random House Unabridged Dictionary, © Random House, Inc. 2023
Idioms from The American Heritage® Idioms Dictionary copyright © 2002, 2001, 1995 by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Publishing Company. Published by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Publishing Company.
