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Lucretius Carus, On The Nature Of Things, 6.708
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1. Hesiod, Works And Days, 203-212, 299-301, 202 (8th cent. BCE - 7th cent. BCE)

202. Might will be right and shame shall cease to be
2. Lucretius Carus, On The Nature of Things, 1.62-1.79, 1.103, 1.117-1.119, 1.124, 1.129, 1.202, 1.250-1.264, 1.328, 1.370-1.371, 1.442, 1.471-1.482, 1.486, 1.505, 1.586, 1.593, 1.624, 1.634, 1.638, 1.741, 1.856, 1.926-1.927, 1.955, 1.968-1.983, 1.992, 1.999, 1.1082, 2.242, 2.302, 2.573, 2.605, 2.991-2.997, 2.1042-2.1043, 2.1129, 2.1150-2.1174, 3.3, 3.17, 3.26-3.30, 3.416, 3.523-3.525, 3.948, 3.997, 4.481, 4.488, 4.1119, 4.1210, 4.1285, 5.43-5.51, 5.84, 5.99, 5.109, 5.194, 5.215, 5.252, 5.306, 5.310, 5.343, 5.389, 5.727-5.730, 5.735, 5.826-5.836, 5.1104, 5.1252-5.1257, 5.1271, 5.1321, 5.1439, 5.1444, 6.32, 6.60, 6.96-6.422, 6.535-6.707, 6.709-6.737, 6.840-6.878, 6.906-6.907, 6.1090-6.1097, 6.1117-6.1124, 6.1132 (1st cent. BCE - 1st cent. BCE)

3. Vergil, Georgics, 1.60-1.63, 1.86-1.93, 1.466, 1.468, 1.470-1.471, 1.475, 1.487 (1st cent. BCE - 1st cent. BCE)

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 1.86. With shallower trench uptilt it—'twill suffice; 1.87. There, lest weeds choke the crop's luxuriance, here 1.88. Lest the scant moisture fail the barren sand. 1.89. Then thou shalt suffer in alternate year 1.90. The new-reaped fields to rest, and on the plain 1.91. A crust of sloth to harden; or, when star 1.92. Are changed in heaven, there sow the golden grain 1.93. Where erst, luxuriant with its quivering pod 1.466. Or light chaff flit in air with fallen leaves 1.468. But when from regions of the furious North 1.470. of Eurus and of Zephyr, all the field 1.471. With brimming dikes are flooded, and at sea 1.475. Flee to the vales before it, with face 1.487. Cayster, as in eager rivalry
4. Longinus, On The Sublime, 35.3-35.4 (1st cent. CE - 1st cent. CE)

5. Seneca The Younger, Letters, 51.10 (1st cent. CE - 1st cent. CE)

6. Pausanias, Description of Greece, 3.23.9 (2nd cent. CE - 2nd cent. CE)

3.23.9. The craters in Aetna have the same feature; for they lower into them objects of gold and silver and also all kinds of victims. If the fire receives and consumes them, they rejoice at the appearance of a good sign, but if it casts up what has been thrown in, they think misfortune will befall the man to whom this happens.
7. Epicurus, Letter To Herodotus, 79

8. Epicurus, Letters, 86-88, 85

9. Epicurus, Letters, 86-88, 85



Subjects of this text:

subject book bibliographic info
aetiology Gale, Virgil on the Nature of Things: The Georgics, Lucretius and the Didactic Tradition (2000) 60
aetna, mt. Perkell, The Poet's Truth: A Study of the Poet in Virgil's Georgics (1989) 160
atomism Hankinson, Cause and Explanation in Ancient Greek Thought (1998) 222
atoms, nature/properties of Lehoux et al., Lucretius: Poetry, Philosophy, Science (2013) 92
campania Konig, The Folds of Olympus: Mountains in Ancient Greek and Roman Culture (2022) 342
ceres Gale, Virgil on the Nature of Things: The Georgics, Lucretius and the Didactic Tradition (2000) 60
death Lehoux et al., Lucretius: Poetry, Philosophy, Science (2013) 92
deucalion Gale, Virgil on the Nature of Things: The Georgics, Lucretius and the Didactic Tradition (2000) 60
ennius Gale, Virgil on the Nature of Things: The Georgics, Lucretius and the Didactic Tradition (2000) 236
epicurus Gale, Virgil on the Nature of Things: The Georgics, Lucretius and the Didactic Tradition (2000) 236; Hankinson, Cause and Explanation in Ancient Greek Thought (1998) 222
explanation, and phenomena Hankinson, Cause and Explanation in Ancient Greek Thought (1998) 222
explanation, and tranquillity Hankinson, Cause and Explanation in Ancient Greek Thought (1998) 222
explanation, disjunctive Hankinson, Cause and Explanation in Ancient Greek Thought (1998) 222
explanation, multiple Hankinson, Cause and Explanation in Ancient Greek Thought (1998) 222
explanations, and tranquillity Hankinson, Cause and Explanation in Ancient Greek Thought (1998) 222
explanations Hankinson, Cause and Explanation in Ancient Greek Thought (1998) 222
georgics , language of science in Perkell, The Poet's Truth: A Study of the Poet in Virgil's Georgics (1989) 160, 170
gods, in the georgics Gale, Virgil on the Nature of Things: The Georgics, Lucretius and the Didactic Tradition (2000) 60
hesiod, allusions to Gale, Virgil on the Nature of Things: The Georgics, Lucretius and the Didactic Tradition (2000) 60
hesiod Gale, Virgil on the Nature of Things: The Georgics, Lucretius and the Didactic Tradition (2000) 60
homer Gale, Virgil on the Nature of Things: The Georgics, Lucretius and the Didactic Tradition (2000) 236
imagery, military Gale, Virgil on the Nature of Things: The Georgics, Lucretius and the Didactic Tradition (2000) 236
indivisibility Hankinson, Cause and Explanation in Ancient Greek Thought (1998) 222
labor Gale, Virgil on the Nature of Things: The Georgics, Lucretius and the Didactic Tradition (2000) 60
lucretius, natura in Gale, Virgil on the Nature of Things: The Georgics, Lucretius and the Didactic Tradition (2000) 236
lucretius, on irregular occurrences Perkell, The Poet's Truth: A Study of the Poet in Virgil's Georgics (1989) 160
lucretius, religion in Gale, Virgil on the Nature of Things: The Georgics, Lucretius and the Didactic Tradition (2000) 236
lucretius, war in Gale, Virgil on the Nature of Things: The Georgics, Lucretius and the Didactic Tradition (2000) 236
lucretius Konig, The Folds of Olympus: Mountains in Ancient Greek and Roman Culture (2022) 342
lucretius carus, t. Horkey, Cosmos in the Ancient World (2019) 255
mount vesuvius Konig, The Folds of Olympus: Mountains in Ancient Greek and Roman Culture (2022) 342
myth, in the georgics Gale, Virgil on the Nature of Things: The Georgics, Lucretius and the Didactic Tradition (2000) 60
myth of er, theory of Horkey, Cosmos in the Ancient World (2019) 255
natura Gale, Virgil on the Nature of Things: The Georgics, Lucretius and the Didactic Tradition (2000) 236
nicolson, marjorie hope Konig, The Folds of Olympus: Mountains in Ancient Greek and Roman Culture (2022) 342
nile (river) Lehoux et al., Lucretius: Poetry, Philosophy, Science (2013) 92
phenomena Hankinson, Cause and Explanation in Ancient Greek Thought (1998) 222
plural causes Perkell, The Poet's Truth: A Study of the Poet in Virgil's Georgics (1989) 170
poetry and poetics Gale, Virgil on the Nature of Things: The Georgics, Lucretius and the Didactic Tradition (2000) 236
portents, as divine signs Perkell, The Poet's Truth: A Study of the Poet in Virgil's Georgics (1989) 160
portents at death of Perkell, The Poet's Truth: A Study of the Poet in Virgil's Georgics (1989) 160
ps-longinus Horkey, Cosmos in the Ancient World (2019) 255
religion, in lucretius Gale, Virgil on the Nature of Things: The Georgics, Lucretius and the Didactic Tradition (2000) 236
schiller, friedrich Horkey, Cosmos in the Ancient World (2019) 255
science, language of, for plural causes Perkell, The Poet's Truth: A Study of the Poet in Virgil's Georgics (1989) 170
science, language of, for sign theory Perkell, The Poet's Truth: A Study of the Poet in Virgil's Georgics (1989) 160
seneca, l. annaeus Horkey, Cosmos in the Ancient World (2019) 255
signs, as portents Perkell, The Poet's Truth: A Study of the Poet in Virgil's Georgics (1989) 160
sublime/sublimity Horkey, Cosmos in the Ancient World (2019) 255
virgil, and hesiod Gale, Virgil on the Nature of Things: The Georgics, Lucretius and the Didactic Tradition (2000) 60
virgil Horkey, Cosmos in the Ancient World (2019) 255
void' Horkey, Cosmos in the Ancient World (2019) 255
war, and poetry Gale, Virgil on the Nature of Things: The Georgics, Lucretius and the Didactic Tradition (2000) 236
war, in lucretius Gale, Virgil on the Nature of Things: The Georgics, Lucretius and the Didactic Tradition (2000) 236