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This is regarded as a seminal text of Epicurean science and philosophy. Epicurians discarded both the idea of immortality and the superstitious worship of wilful gods for a life of serene contentment in the available pleasures of nature. Lucretius (c100-c55BC), in elucidating this belief, steers the reader through an extraordinary breadth of subject matter, ranging from the indestructibility of atoms and the discovery of fire to the folly of romantic love and the phenomena of clouds and rainstorms.
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'Gifanius is well spoken of as a Grammarian but not as an editor, he has made very free use of Lambinus's text and notes, which he has introduced without the least acknowledgment or compunction, for which he is justly censured' [J. W. Moss:'A Manual of Classical Bibliography', referring to the Antwerp editions of 1565, and 1566, and the Lyon edition of 1595]
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