LUCRETIUS, TITUS CARUS

(c. 9;; 55 B.C.), Rom. poet; according to trac poem, De Rerum Natura, in six books | hexameters, phy, but is treats interspersed of Epicurean with philos mar remarkably clever conjectures and the Tes nepardine Ane Se Oe 2 great "love to the Rom. pantheon, ar condemns superstition ae ana of man purdens. L tS one of the most chara teristicaily Roman of all Lat. write rf p RINE LAKE RIN Ital. ee ancient 109-56 B.C.), one of greatest oratol | gov’s, and generals of Rome; subject | one of Plutarch’s Lives: consul, 74, al death of pro-consul became lead | of forces against Mithridates: resc Rom. gov. of Bithynia, and conquer Pontus, 74-2; overran large part | Armenia; recalled by enemies at hor abandoned ambition, and became famo art amateur and voluptuary.