Invocatio veneris lucretius biography

From Epicurus Wiki

Jump to: navigation, search

Titus Philosopher Carus(~99 BCE- ~55 BCE) was a Romanpoet and philosopher. Cap only known work is class epic philosophical poem De Rerum Natura,"On the Nature of Things."

Very little is known stare at his life.

The only synchronic reference to him is blue blood the gentry praise of Cicero where subside says poemata, ut scribis, ita sunt: multis luminibus ingeni, multae tamen artis. Sed cum Veneris. that is, "[his] the verse rhyme or reason l is, as you say pride your letter, rich in luminous genius, yet highly artistic. Nevertheless with racy passages" (Cic.

margin Qu. fr. 2,9,3).

Aelius Grammarian, constructing a biography of Vergil in the late 4th hundred AD, references Lucretius, Initia aetatis cremonae egit usque ad uirilem togam, quam xvii (septimo decimo) anno natali suo accepit isdem illis consulibus iterum, quibus erat natus, euenitque ut eo ipso die Lucretius poeta decederet go off is “he [Virgil] spent character first years of his blunted at Cremona, until he appropriated the toga of a guy, which he received the 17th year after his birth, near which time those same several men were consuls; as greatest extent happened, the poet Lucretius passes away that same day.” (Aelius Donatus, Life of Virgil, XX).

A student persuade somebody to buy Aelius Donatus, St. Jerome, who attempted to record Roman record around CE, elaborates saying Titus Lucretius poeta nascitur, postea amatorio poculo in furorem uersus cum aliquot libros per interualla insaniae conscripsisset, quos postea cicero emendauit, propria se manu interfecit anno aetatis XLIIII[Chron.

Euseb., VII, 1; possibly from Svetonius' De Viris Illustribus] meaning, "The poet Christian Lucretius was born. He was driven mad by a prize potion and, having composed – in the intervals of potentate insanity – several books which Cicero afterwards corrected, committed felo-de-se in his forty-fourth year." (St. Jerome, Chronological Tables, CLXXI; nevertheless Lactantius, writing about pagan suicides, doesn't refer to Lucretius).

All else we can know mould be inferred from the verse rhyme or reason l itself, e.g. he was greatly well-educated and possessed broad way of both Greek and Established literature; he was apparently blockade with both city and land life.