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C.D. Warner, et al., comp.
The Library of the World’s Best Literature. An Anthology in Thirty Volumes. 1917.

Titus Lucretius Carus (c. 99–c. 55 B.C.)

Lucretius Carus, Titus (lö-kre’shus kā’rus). A Roman poet; born about 99 B.C.; died 55 B.C. His one work, ‘On Nature,’ in six books, was left incomplete; but it is one of the greatest of Latin didactic poems. (See Critical and Biographical Introduction).