The implied meaning of " destroying " something is to undo its existence, to make it not there anymore, and this cannot be so: if the void is that which does not exist, and if this void is the implied destination of the destroyed, then the thing in reality cannot be destroyed, for the thing ( and all things ) could not have existed in the first place ( as Lucretius said, ex nihilo nihil fit: nothing comes from nothing ).

Later Republican writers, such as Lucretius, Catullus and even Cicero, wrote their own compositions in the meter and it was at this time that many of the principles of Latin hexameter were firmly established, ones that would govern later writers such as Virgil, Ovid, Lucan, and Juvenal.

Although most of the relevant tissues and endocrine glands had been identified by early anatomists, a more humoral approach to understanding biological function and disease was favoured by the ancient Greek and Roman thinkers such as Aristotle, Hippocrates, Lucretius, Celsus, and Galen, according to Freeman et al., and these theories held sway until the advent of germ theory, physiology, and organ basis of pathology in the 19th century.

Latin was the language of the ancient Romans, but it was also the lingua franca of Europe throughout the middle ages, so Latin literature includes not only Roman authors like Cicero, Vergil, Ovid and Lucretius, but also includes European writers after the fall of the Empire from religious writers like St. Augustine ( 354 – 430 AD ), to secular writers like Francis Bacon ( 1561-1626 ) and Spinoza ( 1632 – 1677 ).

Lucius ' wife, Lucretia, daughter of Spurius Lucretius, prefect of Rome, " a man of distinction ", made sure that the king's son was treated as became his rank, although her husband was away at the siege.

Spurius Lucretius was swiftly elected interrex ; he was prefect of the city anyway.

Lucretius envisioned a pre-technological man that was " far tougher than the men of today ...

It virtually disappeared during the Middle Ages, but was rediscovered in a monastery in Germany in 1417, by Poggio Bracciolini, and played an important role both in the development of atomism ( Lucretius was an important influence on Pierre Gassendi ) and the efforts of various figures of the Enlightenment era to construct a new Christian humanism.

The note reads: " The first years of his life Virgil spent in Cremona, right until the assumption of his toga virilis, which he accepted on his 17th birthday, when the same two men held the consulate, as when he was born, and it so happened that on the very same day Lucretius the poet passed away.

These are a lot of ifs, and it may be wisest to simply say that Lucretius was born in the 90s BC and died in the 50s BC.

Lucretius was probably a member of the aristocratic gens Lucretia, and his work shows an intimate knowledge of the luxurious lifestyle in Rome.

Lucretius ' love of the countryside invites speculation that he inhabited family-owned rural estates, as did many wealthy Roman families, and he was certainly expensively educated with mastery of Latin, Greek, literature, and philosophy.

Lucretius was the first writer to introduce Roman readers to Epicurean philosophy.

The poet Virgil was another prominent Epicurean ( see Lucretius for further details ).

Assisted by the assumption that combination always takes place in the simplest possible way, he thus arrived at the idea that chemical combination takes place between particles of different weights, and it was this which differentiated his theory from the historic speculations of the Greeks, such as Democritus and Lucretius.

After a " considerable time ", Valerius and Lucretius having been carried wounded off the field in full view of the troops, the army was struck by a panic and ran for the bridge.

Lucretius was soon advised.

In contrast the Medieval European's sense of self was linked to a network of social roles: " the household, the kinship network, the guild, the corporation-these were the building blocks of personhood ", Stephen Greenblatt observes, in recounting the recovery ( 1417 ) and career of Lucretius ' poem De rerum natura: " at the core of the poem lay key principles of a modern understanding of the world.

Santayana was an early adherent of epiphenomenalism, but also admired the classical materialism of Democritus and Lucretius ( of the three authors on whom he wrote in Three Philosophical Poets, Santayana speaks most favorably of Lucretius ).

A Memoir by J. D. Duff was prefixed to a re-issue of the translation of Lucretius in " Bohn's Classical Library " ( 1908 ).

Lucretius has remarked: `` The reason why all Mortals are so gripped by fear is that they see all sorts of things happening in the earth and sky with no discernable cause, and these they attribute to the will of God ''.

* Analysis of Lucretius ' " conversion " challenge in terms of designing a " meme " that would compete with the surrounding memes of creationism ; " as doctors sweeten bitter medicine with honey ", so Lucretius sweetened the conversion pill as poetry.

An application: Famously and controversially, in the philosophy of the Greek Anaxagoras ( at least as it is discussed by the Roman Atomist Lucretius ), it was assumed that the atoms constituting a substance must themselves have the salient observed properties of that substance: so atoms of water would be wet, atoms of iron would be hard, atoms of wool would be soft, etc.

Her association for Romans of the first century BCE with Artemis was so thorough that Lucretius identifies the altar of the goddess at the sacrifice of Iphianassa ( Iphigeneia ) in Aulis as Triviai virginis aram.

In a letter by Cicero to his brother Quintus in February 54 BC, Cicero said that: " The poems of Lucretius are as you write: they exhibit many flashes of genius, and yet show great mastership.

The earliest recorded verdict of Lucretius ' work is by Cicero, who calls Lucretius's poetry " full of inspired brilliance, but also of great artistry ".

The notion of the state of nature itself derives from the republican writings of Cicero and of Lucretius, both of whom enjoyed great vogue in the 18th century, after having been revived amid the optimistic atmosphere of Renaissance humanism.

The great work on which his reputation rests is his edition of Lucretius, the fruit of many years ' efforts ( text only, 1 vol., 1860 ; text, commentary and translation, 2 vols, 1864 ).

He wrote on the lives and works of great thinkers, such as Lucretius, Galileo Galilei, Isaac Newton, Mikhail Lomonosov, Michael Faraday, and Pyotr Lebedev, among others.

In this he argued that there was clear lack of logic in the materialistic view of the world and concluded: " When I bring all this together it is impossible for me to understand on what scientific grounds is founded this resurrection of the old materialistic view of the world that had its first great expression from Epicurus and Lucretius.

Again the student of evolutionary biology will find a fascinating, if to our minds grotesque, anticipation of the theory of chance variations and the natural elimination of the unfit in Lucretius, who in turn seems to have borrowed the concept from the philosopher Empedocles.

He knew patristic literature, as well as Pliny the Elder, Virgil, Lucretius, Ovid, Horace and other classical writers.

Greek atomism dates back to 440 BC, as what might be indicated by the book De Rerum Natura ( The Nature of Things ) written by the Roman Lucretius in 50 BC.

Lucretius in his first century BC philosophical poem On the Nature of Things denied the existence of centaurs based on their differing rate of growth.

In his " On the Nature of Things ," Lucretius appears to suggest this in the best-known passage on Epicurus ' position.

Lucretius apotheosized Epicurus as the main character of his epic poem De rerum natura.

The Stoic and Epicurean philosophers, The Complete Extant Writings of Epicurus, Epictetus, Lucretius and Marcus Aurelius.

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The poet Lucretius is its most known Roman proponent.

Some scholars consider the epic poem On the Nature of Things by Lucretius to present in one unified work the core arguments and theories of Epicureanism.

Lucretia's kinsman Lucius Junius Brutus ( himself a member of the Tarquin dynasty ) and Lucretia's widowed husband, Lucius Tarquinius Collatinus ( grand-nephew of Tarquinus Priscus and thus also a member of the dynasty ) led the revolt, along with Publius Valerius Poplicola, and Lucretia's aging father, Spurius Lucretius Tricipitinus.

In contrast, the poet Lucretius interpreted the ideas of the Greek philosopher Epicurus.

Latin moves with impressive dignity in the writings of Lucretius, Cicero, or Virgil.

The Latin poem De Rerum Natura by Lucretius ( ca.

Famous principles like " nothing can touch body but body " first appeared in the works of Lucretius.

Strauss argued that Machiavelli may have seen himself as influenced by some ideas from classical materialists such as Democritus, Epicurus and Lucretius.

Their movement is influenced by the Parenklisis ( Lucretius names it Clinamen ) and that is determined by the chance.

9 ) laughs at this: it is referred to also by Lucretius and Horace.

Four men, led by Lucius Junius Brutus, and including also Lucius Tarquinius Collatinus, Publius Valerius Poplicola, and Spurius Lucretius Tricipitinus incited a revolution, and as a result Tarquinius and his family were deposed and expelled from Rome in 509 B. C.