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Lucretius Carus, On The Nature Of Things, 2.1059-2.1062
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1. Cicero, On Fate, 22 (2nd cent. BCE - 1st cent. BCE)

2. Cicero, On The Nature of The Gods, 2.15, 2.43, 2.96-2.97 (2nd cent. BCE - 1st cent. BCE)

2.15. And the fourth and most potent cause of the belief he said was the uniform motion and revolution of the heavens, and the varied groupings and ordered beauty of the sun, moon and stars, the very sight of which was in itself enough to prove that these things are not the mere effect of chance. When a man goes into a house, a wrestling-school or a public assembly and observes in all that goes on arrangement, regularity and system, he cannot possibly suppose that these things come about without a cause: he realizes that there is someone who presides and controls. Far more therefore with the vast movements and phases of the heavenly bodies, and these ordered processes of a multitude of enormous masses of matter, which throughout the countless ages of the infinite past have never in the smallest degree played false, is he compelled to infer that these mighty world-motions are regulated by some Mind. 2.43. moreover the substance employed as food is also believed to have some influence on mental acuteness; it is therefore likely that the stars possess surpassing intelligence, since they inhabit the ethereal region of the world and also are nourished by the moist vapours of sea and earth, rarefied in their passage through the wide intervening space. Again, the consciousness and intelligence of the stars is most clearly evinced by their order and regularity; for regular and rhythmical motion is impossible without design, which contains no trace of casual or accidental variation; now the order and eternal regularity of the constellations indicates neither a process of nature, for it is highly rational, nor chance, for chance loves variation and abhors regularity; it follows therefore that the stars move of their own free-will and because of their intelligence and divinity. 2.96. Thus far Aristotle; let us for our part imagine a darkness as dense as that which is said to have once covered the neighbouring districts on the occasion of an eruption of the volcano Etna, so that for two days no man could recognize his fellow, and when on the third day the sun shone upon them, they felt as if they had come to life again: well, suppose that after darkness had prevailed from the beginning of time, it similarly happened to ourselves suddenly to behold the light of day, what should we think of the splendour of the heavens? But daily recurrence and habit familiarize our indicates with the sight, and we feel no surprise or curiosity as to the reasons for things that we see always; just as if it were the novelty and not rather the importance of phenomena that ought to arouse us to inquire into their causes. 2.97. Who would not deny the name of human being to a man who, on seeing the regular motions of the heaven and the fixed order of the stars and the accurate interconnexion and interrelation of all things, can deny that these things possess any rational design, and can maintain that phenomena, the wisdom of whose ordering transcends the capacity of our wisdom to understand it, take place by chance? When we see something moved by machinery, like an orrery or clock or many other such things, we do not doubt that these contrivances are the work of reason; when therefore we behold the whole compass of the heaven moving with revolutions of marvellous velocity and executing with perfect regularity the annual changes of the seasons with absolute safety and security for all things, how can we doubt that all this is effected not merely by reason, but by a reason that is transcendent and divine?
3. Lucretius Carus, On The Nature of Things, 1.21, 1.76-1.77, 1.102-1.135, 1.159-1.214, 1.227-1.231, 1.250-1.264, 1.551-1.584, 1.595-1.596, 1.629, 1.1012-1.1028, 1.1106-1.1108, 1.1114-1.1117, 2.67-2.79, 2.81, 2.168, 2.172, 2.216-2.293, 2.478-2.521, 2.569-2.580, 2.719, 2.1030-2.1039, 2.1041-2.1057, 2.1060-2.1062, 2.1090-2.1117, 2.1122-2.1145, 2.1150-2.1174, 3.1-3.2, 3.417, 3.445-3.458, 3.670-3.678, 3.687, 3.719-3.721, 3.746-3.747, 3.781, 3.970-3.971, 3.1078, 3.1090-3.1094, 4.35-4.41, 4.43, 4.733-4.734, 4.760-4.761, 4.1286-4.1287, 5.55-5.58, 5.82, 5.88-5.90, 5.107, 5.136, 5.249-5.254, 5.261-5.283, 5.309-5.310, 5.345-5.347, 5.351-5.369, 5.373-5.406, 5.416-5.508, 5.665, 5.677-5.679, 5.731-5.750, 5.783-5.1457, 6.1-6.6, 6.24-6.34, 6.58-6.66, 6.1138-6.1286 (1st cent. BCE - 1st cent. BCE)

4. Sextus, Against The Mathematicians, 9.111 (2nd cent. CE - 3rd cent. CE)

5. Epicurus, Letter To Menoeceus, 134, 133

6. Epicurus, Letter To Herodotus, 77

7. Vergil, Georgics, 1.60-1.63, 1.147, 1.316-1.334, 1.351-1.355, 1.415-1.423, 2.10-2.21, 2.28-2.31, 2.43, 2.45-2.46, 2.54-2.56, 2.61-2.64, 2.66, 2.70, 2.73-2.82

1.60. And teach the furrow-burnished share to shine. 1.61. That land the craving farmer's prayer fulfils 1.62. Which twice the sunshine, twice the frost has felt; 1.63. Ay, that's the land whose boundless harvest-crop 1.147. But no whit the more 1.316. And when the first breath of his panting steed 1.317. On us the Orient flings, that hour with them 1.318. Red Vesper 'gins to trim his 'lated fires. 1.319. Hence under doubtful skies forebode we can 1.320. The coming tempests, hence both harvest-day 1.321. And seed-time, when to smite the treacherous main 1.322. With driving oars, when launch the fair-rigged fleet 1.323. Or in ripe hour to fell the forest-pine. 1.324. Hence, too, not idly do we watch the stars— 1.325. Their rising and their setting-and the year 1.326. Four varying seasons to one law conformed. 1.327. If chilly showers e'er shut the farmer's door 1.328. Much that had soon with sunshine cried for haste 1.329. He may forestall; the ploughman batters keen 1.330. His blunted share's hard tooth, scoops from a tree 1.331. His troughs, or on the cattle stamps a brand 1.332. Or numbers on the corn-heaps; some make sharp 1.333. The stakes and two-pronged forks, and willow-band 1.334. Amerian for the bending vine prepare. 1.351. Coeus, Iapetus, and Typhoeus fell 1.352. And those sworn brethren banded to break down 1.353. The gates of heaven; thrice, sooth to say, they strove 1.354. Ossa on placeName key= 1.355. Aye, and on Ossa to up-roll amain 1.415. Wields with red hand the levin; through all her bulk 1.416. Earth at the hurly quakes; the beasts are fled 1.417. And mortal hearts of every kindred sunk 1.418. In cowering terror; he with flaming brand 1.419. Athos , or Rhodope, or Ceraunian crag 1.420. Precipitates: then doubly raves the South 1.421. With shower on blinding shower, and woods and coast 1.422. Wail fitfully beneath the mighty blast. 1.423. This fearing, mark the months and Signs of heaven 2.10. And stripped of buskin stain thy bared limb 2.11. In the new must with me. 2.12. First, nature's law 2.13. For generating trees is manifold; 2.14. For some of their own force spontaneous spring 2.15. No hand of man compelling, and posse 2.16. The plains and river-windings far and wide 2.17. As pliant osier and the bending broom 2.18. Poplar, and willows in wan companie 2.19. With green leaf glimmering gray; and some there be 2.20. From chance-dropped seed that rear them, as the tall 2.21. Chestnuts, and, mightiest of the branching wood 2.28. Nature imparted first; hence all the race 2.29. of forest-trees and shrubs and sacred grove 2.30. Springs into verdure. Other means there are 2.31. Which use by method for itself acquired. 2.43. And oft the branches of one kind we see 2.45. Pear-tree transformed the ingrafted apple yield 2.46. And stony cornels on the plum-tree blush. 2.54. I am bound on, O my glory, O thou that art 2.55. Justly the chiefest portion of my fame 2.56. Maecenas, and on this wide ocean launched 2.61. Skirt but the nearer coast-line; see the shore 2.62. Is in our grasp; not now with feigned song 2.63. Through winding bouts and tedious preluding 2.64. Shall I detain thee. 2.66. Into the realms of light spontaneously 2.70. To well-drilled trenches, will anon put of 2.73. To follow. So likewise will the barren shaft 2.74. That from the stock-root issueth, if it be 2.75. Set out with clear space amid open fields: 2.76. Now the tree-mother's towering leaves and bough 2.77. Darken, despoil of increase as it grows 2.78. And blast it in the bearing. Lastly, that 2.79. Which from shed seed ariseth, upward win 2.80. But slowly, yielding promise of its shade 2.81. To late-born generations; apples wane 2.82. Forgetful of their former juice, the grape


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amor,in lucretius Gale (2000), Virgil on the Nature of Things: The Georgics, Lucretius and the Didactic Tradition, 21
ataraxia Gale (2000), Virgil on the Nature of Things: The Georgics, Lucretius and the Didactic Tradition, 203
athens Gale (2000), Virgil on the Nature of Things: The Georgics, Lucretius and the Didactic Tradition, 22
atomism,atomists Long (2006), From Epicurus to Epictetus Studies in Hellenistic and Roman Philosophy, 163
bailey,c. Long (2006), From Epicurus to Epictetus Studies in Hellenistic and Roman Philosophy, 163
causation,cause Long (2006), From Epicurus to Epictetus Studies in Hellenistic and Roman Philosophy, 163, 209
chance Kazantzidis (2021), Lucretius on Disease: The Poetics of Morbidity in "De rerum natura", 30; Long (2006), From Epicurus to Epictetus Studies in Hellenistic and Roman Philosophy, 163
cicero,allusion by lucretius to Gee (2013), Aratus and the Astronomical Tradition, 72
cicero,de natura deorum Gee (2013), Aratus and the Astronomical Tradition, 72
clinamen Kazantzidis (2021), Lucretius on Disease: The Poetics of Morbidity in "De rerum natura", 30; Rosa and Santangelo (2020), Cicero and Roman Religion: Eight Studies, 95
cycle of growth and decay,in lucretius Gale (2000), Virgil on the Nature of Things: The Georgics, Lucretius and the Didactic Tradition, 21, 22
death,in lucretius Gale (2000), Virgil on the Nature of Things: The Georgics, Lucretius and the Didactic Tradition, 21, 22
derrida,jacques Kazantzidis (2021), Lucretius on Disease: The Poetics of Morbidity in "De rerum natura", 30
disease,as a force of (re)creation Kazantzidis (2021), Lucretius on Disease: The Poetics of Morbidity in "De rerum natura", 30
disease,as a force of destruction Kazantzidis (2021), Lucretius on Disease: The Poetics of Morbidity in "De rerum natura", 30
dreams Gale (2000), Virgil on the Nature of Things: The Georgics, Lucretius and the Didactic Tradition, 22
epicureanism Rosa and Santangelo (2020), Cicero and Roman Religion: Eight Studies, 95
epicurus,epicureanism Gee (2013), Aratus and the Astronomical Tradition, 72
epicurus,on nature and the self Long (2006), From Epicurus to Epictetus Studies in Hellenistic and Roman Philosophy, 163, 209
epicurus Gale (2000), Virgil on the Nature of Things: The Georgics, Lucretius and the Didactic Tradition, 21
eudoxus Long (2006), From Epicurus to Epictetus Studies in Hellenistic and Roman Philosophy, 163
finales,in lucretius Gale (2000), Virgil on the Nature of Things: The Georgics, Lucretius and the Didactic Tradition, 21, 22
foedera naturae Long (2006), From Epicurus to Epictetus Studies in Hellenistic and Roman Philosophy, 209
gods,in the georgics Gale (2000), Virgil on the Nature of Things: The Georgics, Lucretius and the Didactic Tradition, 86
jupiter Gale (2000), Virgil on the Nature of Things: The Georgics, Lucretius and the Didactic Tradition, 86
lucretius,agriculture in Gale (2000), Virgil on the Nature of Things: The Georgics, Lucretius and the Didactic Tradition, 86
lucretius,allusion to ciceros aratea in drn Gee (2013), Aratus and the Astronomical Tradition, 72
lucretius,culture-history in Gale (2000), Virgil on the Nature of Things: The Georgics, Lucretius and the Didactic Tradition, 86
lucretius,cycle of growth and decay in Gale (2000), Virgil on the Nature of Things: The Georgics, Lucretius and the Didactic Tradition, 21, 22
lucretius,death in Gale (2000), Virgil on the Nature of Things: The Georgics, Lucretius and the Didactic Tradition, 21, 22
lucretius,laws of nature in Gale (2000), Virgil on the Nature of Things: The Georgics, Lucretius and the Didactic Tradition, 86, 203
lucretius,natura in Gale (2000), Virgil on the Nature of Things: The Georgics, Lucretius and the Didactic Tradition, 86
lucretius Long (2006), From Epicurus to Epictetus Studies in Hellenistic and Roman Philosophy, 163, 209
lucretius carus,t Rosa and Santangelo (2020), Cicero and Roman Religion: Eight Studies, 95
natura Gale (2000), Virgil on the Nature of Things: The Georgics, Lucretius and the Didactic Tradition, 86
natural law Rosa and Santangelo (2020), Cicero and Roman Religion: Eight Studies, 95
nature,laws of Long (2006), From Epicurus to Epictetus Studies in Hellenistic and Roman Philosophy, 209
nature,personification of Long (2006), From Epicurus to Epictetus Studies in Hellenistic and Roman Philosophy, 209
necessity Long (2006), From Epicurus to Epictetus Studies in Hellenistic and Roman Philosophy, 163
pietas Rosa and Santangelo (2020), Cicero and Roman Religion: Eight Studies, 95
plague Gale (2000), Virgil on the Nature of Things: The Georgics, Lucretius and the Didactic Tradition, 21, 22
plato Gale (2000), Virgil on the Nature of Things: The Georgics, Lucretius and the Didactic Tradition, 203
proems,in lucretius Gale (2000), Virgil on the Nature of Things: The Georgics, Lucretius and the Didactic Tradition, 21, 22
providentialism Gale (2000), Virgil on the Nature of Things: The Georgics, Lucretius and the Didactic Tradition, 86
ratio Long (2006), From Epicurus to Epictetus Studies in Hellenistic and Roman Philosophy, 209
scha¨fer,s. Gale (2000), Virgil on the Nature of Things: The Georgics, Lucretius and the Didactic Tradition, 86
seeds,in epicurean physics Long (2006), From Epicurus to Epictetus Studies in Hellenistic and Roman Philosophy, 163, 209
self,concepts of Long (2006), From Epicurus to Epictetus Studies in Hellenistic and Roman Philosophy, 209
sponte sua Kazantzidis (2021), Lucretius on Disease: The Poetics of Morbidity in "De rerum natura", 30
stoicism,stoics,cosmology of Long (2006), From Epicurus to Epictetus Studies in Hellenistic and Roman Philosophy, 163
stoicism Gale (2000), Virgil on the Nature of Things: The Georgics, Lucretius and the Didactic Tradition, 203; Rosa and Santangelo (2020), Cicero and Roman Religion: Eight Studies, 95
treaties Rosa and Santangelo (2020), Cicero and Roman Religion: Eight Studies, 95
trees Gale (2000), Virgil on the Nature of Things: The Georgics, Lucretius and the Didactic Tradition, 86
venus Gale (2000), Virgil on the Nature of Things: The Georgics, Lucretius and the Didactic Tradition, 21, 22
world formation' Long (2006), From Epicurus to Epictetus Studies in Hellenistic and Roman Philosophy, 163