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Cicero, Letters To Quintus, 2.9.3
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1. Cicero, On The Nature of The Gods, 1.69 (2nd cent. BCE - 1st cent. BCE) 1.69. This is a very common practice with your school. You advance a paradox, and then, when you want to escape censure, you adduce in support of it some absolute impossibility; so that you would have done better to abandon the point in dispute rather than to offer so shameless a defence. For instance, Epicurus saw that if the atoms travelled downwards by their own weight, we should have no freedom of the will, since the motion of the atoms would be determined by necessity. He therefore invented a device to escape from determinism (the point had apparently escaped the notice of Democritus): he said that the atom while travelling vertically downward by the force of gravity makes a very slight swerve to the side.
2. Lucretius Carus, On The Nature of Things, 1.145, 2.217-2.220, 2.243-2.244, 2.259-2.260, 2.292-2.293 (1st cent. BCE - 1st cent. BCE)

Subjects of this text:

subject	book bibliographic info
atom / atomism	Maso (2022) 102
cicero	Wardy and Warren (2018) 232
cicero quintus tullius	Maso (2022) 102
declinare paululum	Maso (2022) 102
epicurus,authority in the de rerum natura	Bryan (2018) 232; Wardy and Warren (2018) 232
epicurus,theology	Bryan (2018) 232; Wardy and Warren (2018) 232
lucretius,devotion to epicurus	Wardy and Warren (2018) 232
lucretius,theology	Wardy and Warren (2018) 232
lucretius t. caro	Maso (2022) 102
random / randomness	Maso (2022) 102
swerve / deviation / clinamen / παρέγκλισις'	Maso (2022) 102