On the Nature of Things (la)
- Language:
- Latin
- Status:
- Complete work
- Authorship:
- Written by the author
- Condition of the text:
- Clean text
- Extent:
- ~60,800 words · 289 passages
Cite this work
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- MLALucretius. "On the Nature of Things (la)." SigPhi, https://sigphiai.com/en/works/lucretius/de-rerum-natura-la.
- ChicagoLucretius. On the Nature of Things (la). SigPhi. https://sigphiai.com/en/works/lucretius/de-rerum-natura-la.
What it is about
De rerum natura in LATIN: the original.
Context and history
Six books in hexameters setting out Epicurus's atomism in order to free readers from the fear of gods and of death. It is at once one of the great Latin poems and the text that carried atomic physics to the Renaissance, when Poggio Bracciolini found a copy in a monastery in 1417. Text in LATIN: the original, and what should be cited.
Editorial context, not a citable source: unlike the passages of the work itself, these statements cannot be checked against the corpus.
moved some translation passages around and added a few cards Revision 1.3 2004/03/04 22:47:49 mimno finished cardbreaks Revision 1.2 2004/03/01 21:45:29 mimno milestones done through book 3 Revision 1.1 2003/12/05 19:42:38 mimno card breaks not yet aligned Liber Primus Aeneadum genetrix, hominum divomque voluptas, alma Venus, caeli subter labentia signa quae mare navigerum, quae terras frugiferentis concelebras, per te quoniam genus omne animantum concipitur visitque exortum lumina solis: te, dea, te fugiunt venti, te nubila caeli adventumque tuum, tibi suavis daedala tellus summittit flores, tibi rident aequora ponti placatumque nitet diffuso lumine caelum. nam simul ac species patefactast verna diei et reserata viget genitabilis aura favoni, aeriae primum volucris te, diva, tuumque significant initum perculsae corda tua vi. inde ferae pecudes persultant pabula laeta et rapidos tranant amnis: ita capta lepore te sequitur cupide quo quamque inducere pergis. denique per maria ac montis fluviosque rapacis frondiferasque domos avium camposque virentis omnibus incutiens blandum per pectora amorem efficis ut cupide generatim saecla propagent. quae quoniam rerum naturam sola gubernas nec sine te quicquam dias in luminis oras exoritur neque fit laetum neque amabile quicquam, te sociam studeo scribendis versibus esse, quos ego de rerum natura pangere conor
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