LUCRETIUS
Poet-philosopher of the 1st century BC
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He had little time for gods. Quippe ita formido
mortalis continet omnis,
There’s no question all mortals are repressed by fear: they see many phenomena on earth and in the sky which they are unable to account for with any rational explanation, so they imagine them to be the work of gods. De Rerum Natura i, 151-4
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The LATIN QVARTER
Learning to read Latin