Associations to the word «Lucretius»

Wiktionary

LUCRETIUS, proper noun. A male given name of mostly historical use in English.
LUCRETIUS, proper noun. Titus Lucretius Carus, a Roman poet and philosopher.

Dictionary definition

LUCRETIUS, noun. Roman philosopher and poet; in a long didactic poem he tried to provide a scientific explanation of the universe (96-55 BC).

Wise words

The chief virtue that language can have is clearness, and nothing detracts from it so much as the use of unfamiliar words.
Hippocrates