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Lucretius Carus, On The Nature Of Things, 5.1436-5.1442
at vigiles mundi magnum versatile templum But sun and moon, those watchmen of the world, With their own lanterns traversing around The mighty, the revolving vault, have taught Unto mankind that seasons of the years Return again, and that the Thing takes place After a fixed plan and order fixed. Already would they pass their life, hedged round By the strong towers; and cultivate an earth All portioned out and boundaried; already Would the sea flower and sail-winged ships; Already men had, under treaty pacts, Confederates and allies, when poets began To hand heroic actions down in verse; Nor long ere this had letters been devised- Hence is our age unable to look back On what has gone before, except where reason Shows us a footprint. Sailings on the seas, Tillings of fields, walls, laws, and arms, and roads, Dress and the like, all prizes, all delights Of finer life, poems, pictures, chiselled shapes Of polished sculptures- all these arts were learned By practice and the mind's experience, As men walked forward step by eager step. Thus time draws forward each and everything Little by little into the midst of men, And reason uplifts it to the shores of light. For one thing after other did men see Grow clear by intellect, till with their arts They've now achieved the supreme pinnacle.
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1. Hesiod, Works And Days, 12-26, 11 (8th cent. BCE - 7th cent. BCE) 11. Not one, but two Strifes live on earth: when these
2. Plato, Laws, None (5th cent. BCE - 4th cent. BCE)
3. Aratus Solensis, Phaenomena, 11, 1153-1154, 12-13, 5-7, 741-743, 8-10 (4th cent. BCE - 3rd cent. BCE) 10. αὐτὸς γὰρ τά γε σήματʼ ἐν οὐρανῷ ἐστήριξεν
4. Callimachus, Aetia, 75 (4th cent. BCE - 3rd cent. BCE)
5. Apollonius of Rhodes, Argonautica, 2.500-2.527, 4.445 (3rd cent. BCE - 3rd cent. BCE) 2.500. Κυρήνη πέφαταί τις ἕλος πάρα Πηνειοῖο 2.501. μῆλα νέμειν προτέροισι παρʼ ἀνδράσιν· εὔαδε γάρ οἱ 2.502. παρθενίη καὶ λέκτρον ἀκήρατον. αὐτὰρ Ἀπόλλων 2.503. τήνγʼ ἀνερεψάμενος ποταμῷ ἔπι ποιμαίνουσαν 2.504. τηλόθεν Αἱμονίης, χθονίῃς παρακάτθετο νύμφαις 2.505. αἳ Λιβύην ἐνέμοντο παραὶ Μυρτώσιον αἶπος. 2.506. ἔνθα δʼ Ἀρισταῖον Φοίβῳ τέκεν, ὃν καλέουσιν 2.507. Ἀγρέα καὶ Νόμιον πολυλήιοι Αἱμονιῆες. 2.508. τὴν μὲν γὰρ φιλότητι θεὸς ποιήσατο νύμφην 2.509. αὐτοῦ μακραίωνα καὶ ἀγρότιν· υἷα δʼ ἔνεικεν 2.510. νηπίαχον Χείρωνος ὑπʼ ἄντροισιν κομέεσθαι. 2.511. τῷ καὶ ἀεξηθέντι θεαὶ γάμον ἐμνήστευσαν 2.512. Μοῦσαι, ἀκεστορίην τε θεοπροπίας τʼ ἐδίδαξαν· 2.513. καί μιν ἑῶν μήλων θέσαν ἤρανον, ὅσσʼ ἐνέμοντο 2.514. ἂμ πεδίον Φθίης Ἀθαμάντιον ἀμφί τʼ ἐρυμνὴν 2.515. Ὄθρυν καὶ ποταμοῦ ἱερὸν ῥόον Ἀπιδανοῖο. 2.516. ἦμος δʼ οὐρανόθεν Μινωίδας ἔφλεγε νήσους 2.517. Σείριος, οὐδʼ ἐπὶ δηρὸν ἔην ἄκος ἐνναέτῃσιν 2.518. τῆμος τόνγʼ ἐκάλεσσαν ἐφημοσύναις Ἑκάτοιο 2.519. λοιμοῦ ἀλεξητῆρα. λίπεν δʼ ὅγε πατρὸς ἐφετμῇ 2.520. Φθίην, ἐν δὲ Κέῳ κατενάσσατο, λαὸν ἀγείρας 2.521. Παρράσιον, τοίπερ τε Λυκάονός εἰσι γενέθλης 2.522. καὶ βωμὸν ποίησε μέγαν Διὸς Ἰκμαίοιο 2.523. ἱερά τʼ εὖ ἔρρεξεν ἐν οὔρεσιν ἀστέρι κείνῳ 2.524. Σειρίῳ αὐτῷ τε Κρονίδῃ Διί. τοῖο δʼ ἕκητι 2.525. γαῖαν ἐπιψύχουσιν ἐτήσιαι ἐκ Διὸς αὖραι 2.526. ἤματα τεσσαράκοντα· Κέῳ δʼ ἔτι νῦν ἱερῆες 2.527. ἀντολέων προπάροιθε Κυνὸς ῥέζουσι θυηλάς. 4.445. σχέτλιʼ Ἔρως, μέγα πῆμα, μέγα στύγος ἀνθρώποισιν
6. Cicero, On The Nature of The Gods, 2.15, 2.43 (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.
7. Lucretius Carus, On The Nature of Things, 1.2-1.4, 1.76-1.77, 1.102-1.135, 1.159-1.214, 1.227-1.231, 1.250-1.634, 1.988-1.1082, 1.1102-1.1112, 2.67-2.79, 2.81, 2.168, 2.172, 2.184-2.307, 2.312-2.313, 2.317-2.380, 2.398-2.580, 2.1030-2.1039, 2.1041-2.1063, 2.1081-2.1083, 2.1090-2.1117, 2.1122-2.1145, 2.1150-2.1174, 3.417, 3.445-3.458, 3.670-3.783, 3.970-3.971, 3.1078, 4.35-4.41, 4.43, 4.733-4.734, 4.760-4.761, 5.76-5.82, 5.88-5.90, 5.165-5.173, 5.195-5.508, 5.665, 5.677-5.679, 5.731-5.750, 5.772-5.1435, 5.1437-5.1457, 6.1-6.7, 6.25-6.27, 6.33-6.34, 6.36-6.38, 6.42-6.422, 6.1138-6.1286 (1st cent. BCE - 1st cent. BCE)
8. Vergil, Aeneis, 4.412 (1st cent. BCE - 1st cent. BCE) 4.412. but carefully dissembling what emprise
9. Vergil, Georgics, 1.1-1.23, 1.60-1.63, 1.118-1.159, 1.351-1.355, 1.415-1.423, 1.439 (1st cent. BCE - 1st cent. BCE) 1.1. What makes the cornfield smile; beneath what star 1.2. Maecenas, it is meet to turn the sod 1.3. Or marry elm with vine; how tend the steer; 1.4. What pains for cattle-keeping, or what proof 1.5. of patient trial serves for thrifty bees;— 1.6. Such are my themes. O universal light 1.7. Most glorious! ye that lead the gliding year 1.8. Along the sky, Liber and Ceres mild 1.9. If by your bounty holpen earth once changed 1.10. Chaonian acorn for the plump wheat-ear 1.11. And mingled with the grape, your new-found gift 1.12. The draughts of Achelous; and ye Faun 1.13. To rustics ever kind, come foot it, Faun 1.14. And Dryad-maids together; your gifts I sing. 1.15. And thou, for whose delight the war-horse first 1.16. Sprang from earth's womb at thy great trident's stroke 1.17. Neptune; and haunter of the groves, for whom 1.18. Three hundred snow-white heifers browse the brakes 1.19. The fertile brakes of placeName key= 1.20. Thy native forest and Lycean lawns 1.21. Pan, shepherd-god, forsaking, as the love 1.22. of thine own Maenalus constrains thee, hear 1.23. And help, O lord of placeName key= 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 1.118. Hales o'er them; from the far Olympian height 1.119. Him golden Ceres not in vain regards; 1.120. And he, who having ploughed the fallow plain 1.121. And heaved its furrowy ridges, turns once more 1.122. Cross-wise his shattering share, with stroke on stroke 1.123. The earth assails, and makes the field his thrall. 1.124. Pray for wet summers and for winters fine 1.125. Ye husbandmen; in winter's dust the crop 1.126. Exceedingly rejoice, the field hath joy; 1.127. No tilth makes placeName key= 1.128. Nor Gargarus his own harvests so admire. 1.129. Why tell of him, who, having launched his seed 1.130. Sets on for close encounter, and rakes smooth 1.131. The dry dust hillocks, then on the tender corn 1.132. Lets in the flood, whose waters follow fain; 1.133. And when the parched field quivers, and all the blade 1.134. Are dying, from the brow of its hill-bed 1.135. See! see! he lures the runnel; down it falls 1.136. Waking hoarse murmurs o'er the polished stones 1.137. And with its bubblings slakes the thirsty fields? 1.138. Or why of him, who lest the heavy ear 1.139. O'erweigh the stalk, while yet in tender blade 1.140. Feeds down the crop's luxuriance, when its growth 1.141. First tops the furrows? Why of him who drain 1.142. The marsh-land's gathered ooze through soaking sand 1.143. Chiefly what time in treacherous moons a stream 1.144. Goes out in spate, and with its coat of slime 1.145. Holds all the country, whence the hollow dyke 1.146. Sweat steaming vapour? 1.147. But no whit the more 1.148. For all expedients tried and travail borne 1.149. By man and beast in turning oft the soil 1.150. Do greedy goose and Strymon-haunting crane 1.151. And succory's bitter fibres cease to harm 1.152. Or shade not injure. The great Sire himself 1.153. No easy road to husbandry assigned 1.154. And first was he by human skill to rouse 1.155. The slumbering glebe, whetting the minds of men 1.156. With care on care, nor suffering realm of hi 1.157. In drowsy sloth to stagnate. Before Jove 1.158. Fields knew no taming hand of husbandmen; 1.159. To mark the plain or mete with boundary-line— 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 1.439. Attend it, and with shouts bid Ceres come
10. Vitruvius Pollio, On Architecture, 1.1.3, 1.1.8, 2.1.5 (1st cent. BCE - 1st cent. BCE)
11. Sextus, Against The Mathematicians, 9.111 (2nd cent. CE - 3rd cent. CE)
12. Epicurus, Letter To Herodotus, 77

Subjects of this text:

subject	book bibliographic info
aetiology	Gale, Virgil on the Nature of Things: The Georgics, Lucretius and the Didactic Tradition (2000) 28
aetiology of labor	Gale, Virgil on the Nature of Things: The Georgics, Lucretius and the Didactic Tradition (2000) 63
analogy	Lehoux et al., Lucretius: Poetry, Philosophy, Science (2013) 88
aratus	Gale, Virgil on the Nature of Things: The Georgics, Lucretius and the Didactic Tradition (2000) 84
aristaeus	Gale, Virgil on the Nature of Things: The Georgics, Lucretius and the Didactic Tradition (2000) 28
ars vivendi, conjectural	Nijs, The Epicurean Sage in the Ethics of Philodemus (2023) 85
art (τέχνη)	Nijs, The Epicurean Sage in the Ethics of Philodemus (2023) 85
ataraxia	Gale, Virgil on the Nature of Things: The Georgics, Lucretius and the Didactic Tradition (2000) 203
athens	Gale, Virgil on the Nature of Things: The Georgics, Lucretius and the Didactic Tradition (2000) 22
atoms	Rohmann, Christianity, Book-Burning and Censorship in Late Antiquity (2016) 155
auctoritas	Oksanish, Vitruvian Man: Rome Under Construction (2019) 103
birds	Gale, Virgil on the Nature of Things: The Georgics, Lucretius and the Didactic Tradition (2000) 84
body, metaphor for speech and text, greek	Oksanish, Vitruvian Man: Rome Under Construction (2019) 103
body, metaphor for speech and text	Oksanish, Vitruvian Man: Rome Under Construction (2019) 103
body	Oksanish, Vitruvian Man: Rome Under Construction (2019) 103
bonus eventus	Gale, Virgil on the Nature of Things: The Georgics, Lucretius and the Didactic Tradition (2000) 28
callimacheanism	Gale, Virgil on the Nature of Things: The Georgics, Lucretius and the Didactic Tradition (2000) 28
causation	Rohmann, Christianity, Book-Burning and Censorship in Late Antiquity (2016) 155
ceres	Gale, Virgil on the Nature of Things: The Georgics, Lucretius and the Didactic Tradition (2000) 28
cicero, allusion by lucretius to	Gee, Aratus and the Astronomical Tradition (2013) 57, 58, 59
clash of atoms	Rohmann, Christianity, Book-Burning and Censorship in Late Antiquity (2016) 155
corpus architecturae	Oksanish, Vitruvian Man: Rome Under Construction (2019) 103
creation	Rohmann, Christianity, Book-Burning and Censorship in Late Antiquity (2016) 155
cycle of growth and decay, in lucretius	Gale, Virgil on the Nature of Things: The Georgics, Lucretius and the Didactic Tradition (2000) 22
de architectura, and greek knowledge	Oksanish, Vitruvian Man: Rome Under Construction (2019) 103
de architectura, universalizing	Oksanish, Vitruvian Man: Rome Under Construction (2019) 103
death, in lucretius	Gale, Virgil on the Nature of Things: The Georgics, Lucretius and the Didactic Tradition (2000) 22
definition	Oksanish, Vitruvian Man: Rome Under Construction (2019) 103
demonic possession	Rohmann, Christianity, Book-Burning and Censorship in Late Antiquity (2016) 155
design/purpose	Lehoux et al., Lucretius: Poetry, Philosophy, Science (2013) 88
diodorus siculus	Oksanish, Vitruvian Man: Rome Under Construction (2019) 103
disposition (διάθεσις)	Nijs, The Epicurean Sage in the Ethics of Philodemus (2023) 85
dreams	Gale, Virgil on the Nature of Things: The Georgics, Lucretius and the Didactic Tradition (2000) 22
epicureanism, epicureans	Rohmann, Christianity, Book-Burning and Censorship in Late Antiquity (2016) 155
eris	Gale, Virgil on the Nature of Things: The Georgics, Lucretius and the Didactic Tradition (2000) 63
evolution	Rohmann, Christianity, Book-Burning and Censorship in Late Antiquity (2016) 155
finales, in lucretius	Gale, Virgil on the Nature of Things: The Georgics, Lucretius and the Didactic Tradition (2000) 22
flora	Gale, Virgil on the Nature of Things: The Georgics, Lucretius and the Didactic Tradition (2000) 28
gods, divine control (lack of)	Lehoux et al., Lucretius: Poetry, Philosophy, Science (2013) 88
gods, in the georgics	Gale, Virgil on the Nature of Things: The Georgics, Lucretius and the Didactic Tradition (2000) 28, 63, 84
gods, providence	Lehoux et al., Lucretius: Poetry, Philosophy, Science (2013) 88
gods	Faure, Conceptions of Time in Greek and Roman Antiquity (2022) 96
golden age	Gale, Virgil on the Nature of Things: The Georgics, Lucretius and the Didactic Tradition (2000) 28, 63; Gee, Aratus and the Astronomical Tradition (2013) 58
gravitation	Rohmann, Christianity, Book-Burning and Censorship in Late Antiquity (2016) 155
herodotus	Oksanish, Vitruvian Man: Rome Under Construction (2019) 103
hesiod, allusions to	Gale, Virgil on the Nature of Things: The Georgics, Lucretius and the Didactic Tradition (2000) 63
hesiod	Gale, Virgil on the Nature of Things: The Georgics, Lucretius and the Didactic Tradition (2000) 63
heuretai	Gale, Virgil on the Nature of Things: The Georgics, Lucretius and the Didactic Tradition (2000) 28
intelligent design	Rohmann, Christianity, Book-Burning and Censorship in Late Antiquity (2016) 155
intertextuality	Gale, Virgil on the Nature of Things: The Georgics, Lucretius and the Didactic Tradition (2000) 63
jupiter	Gale, Virgil on the Nature of Things: The Georgics, Lucretius and the Didactic Tradition (2000) 63, 84
labor	Gale, Virgil on the Nature of Things: The Georgics, Lucretius and the Didactic Tradition (2000) 63
language	Faure, Conceptions of Time in Greek and Roman Antiquity (2022) 96
liber	Gale, Virgil on the Nature of Things: The Georgics, Lucretius and the Didactic Tradition (2000) 28
livy	Oksanish, Vitruvian Man: Rome Under Construction (2019) 103
lucretius, agriculture in	Gale, Virgil on the Nature of Things: The Georgics, Lucretius and the Didactic Tradition (2000) 63
lucretius, allusion to ciceros aratea in drn	Gee, Aratus and the Astronomical Tradition (2013) 57, 58, 59
lucretius, culture-history in	Gale, Virgil on the Nature of Things: The Georgics, Lucretius and the Didactic Tradition (2000) 28, 63
lucretius, cycle of growth and decay in	Gale, Virgil on the Nature of Things: The Georgics, Lucretius and the Didactic Tradition (2000) 22
lucretius, death in	Gale, Virgil on the Nature of Things: The Georgics, Lucretius and the Didactic Tradition (2000) 22
lucretius, laws of nature in	Gale, Virgil on the Nature of Things: The Georgics, Lucretius and the Didactic Tradition (2000) 84, 203
lucretius, religion in	Gale, Virgil on the Nature of Things: The Georgics, Lucretius and the Didactic Tradition (2000) 63
lympha	Gale, Virgil on the Nature of Things: The Georgics, Lucretius and the Didactic Tradition (2000) 28
madness, insanity, mental disorder	Rohmann, Christianity, Book-Burning and Censorship in Late Antiquity (2016) 155
maiestas	Oksanish, Vitruvian Man: Rome Under Construction (2019) 103
mechanical movements	Rohmann, Christianity, Book-Burning and Censorship in Late Antiquity (2016) 155
meteorology, thunder'	Lehoux et al., Lucretius: Poetry, Philosophy, Science (2013) 88
meteorology	Lehoux et al., Lucretius: Poetry, Philosophy, Science (2013) 88
minerva	Gale, Virgil on the Nature of Things: The Georgics, Lucretius and the Didactic Tradition (2000) 28
natural phenomena	Rohmann, Christianity, Book-Burning and Censorship in Late Antiquity (2016) 155
nature	Faure, Conceptions of Time in Greek and Roman Antiquity (2022) 96
neptune	Gale, Virgil on the Nature of Things: The Georgics, Lucretius and the Didactic Tradition (2000) 28
octavian	Gale, Virgil on the Nature of Things: The Georgics, Lucretius and the Didactic Tradition (2000) 28
oikonomia	Oksanish, Vitruvian Man: Rome Under Construction (2019) 103
philosophers	Rohmann, Christianity, Book-Burning and Censorship in Late Antiquity (2016) 155
plague	Gale, Virgil on the Nature of Things: The Georgics, Lucretius and the Didactic Tradition (2000) 22; Rohmann, Christianity, Book-Burning and Censorship in Late Antiquity (2016) 155
plato	Gale, Virgil on the Nature of Things: The Georgics, Lucretius and the Didactic Tradition (2000) 203
polemics	Rohmann, Christianity, Book-Burning and Censorship in Late Antiquity (2016) 155
primitivism	Gale, Virgil on the Nature of Things: The Georgics, Lucretius and the Didactic Tradition (2000) 28
proems, in lucretius	Gale, Virgil on the Nature of Things: The Georgics, Lucretius and the Didactic Tradition (2000) 22
providentialism	Gale, Virgil on the Nature of Things: The Georgics, Lucretius and the Didactic Tradition (2000) 84
religio	Rohmann, Christianity, Book-Burning and Censorship in Late Antiquity (2016) 155
religion, in lucretius	Gale, Virgil on the Nature of Things: The Georgics, Lucretius and the Didactic Tradition (2000) 63
robigo	Gale, Virgil on the Nature of Things: The Georgics, Lucretius and the Didactic Tradition (2000) 28
science	Rohmann, Christianity, Book-Burning and Censorship in Late Antiquity (2016) 155
size	Oksanish, Vitruvian Man: Rome Under Construction (2019) 103
stoicism	Gale, Virgil on the Nature of Things: The Georgics, Lucretius and the Didactic Tradition (2000) 203
strabo	Oksanish, Vitruvian Man: Rome Under Construction (2019) 103
sun	Faure, Conceptions of Time in Greek and Roman Antiquity (2022) 96
teachers/teaching	Nijs, The Epicurean Sage in the Ethics of Philodemus (2023) 85
temporality	Faure, Conceptions of Time in Greek and Roman Antiquity (2022) 96
time	Rohmann, Christianity, Book-Burning and Censorship in Late Antiquity (2016) 155
triptolemus	Gale, Virgil on the Nature of Things: The Georgics, Lucretius and the Didactic Tradition (2000) 28
universe	Rohmann, Christianity, Book-Burning and Censorship in Late Antiquity (2016) 155
utilitasutility	Oksanish, Vitruvian Man: Rome Under Construction (2019) 103
vacuum, void	Rohmann, Christianity, Book-Burning and Censorship in Late Antiquity (2016) 155
varro	Gale, Virgil on the Nature of Things: The Georgics, Lucretius and the Didactic Tradition (2000) 28
venus	Gale, Virgil on the Nature of Things: The Georgics, Lucretius and the Didactic Tradition (2000) 22, 28
virgil, and callimachean poetics	Gale, Virgil on the Nature of Things: The Georgics, Lucretius and the Didactic Tradition (2000) 28
virgil, and hesiod	Gale, Virgil on the Nature of Things: The Georgics, Lucretius and the Didactic Tradition (2000) 63
vitruvius, and history	Oksanish, Vitruvian Man: Rome Under Construction (2019) 103
vitruvius, auctoritas	Oksanish, Vitruvian Man: Rome Under Construction (2019) 103
vitruvius, doubts about reliability	Oksanish, Vitruvian Man: Rome Under Construction (2019) 103
volumina	Oksanish, Vitruvian Man: Rome Under Construction (2019) 103
weather signs	Gale, Virgil on the Nature of Things: The Georgics, Lucretius and the Didactic Tradition (2000) 84