St Jerome tells us that Lucretius was born in the year 94 BCE; that a love potion rendered him insane; that he wrote his poem in random moments of sanity; that Cicero edited (or maybe proofread) the manuscript he left behind when he committed suicide at the age of forty-four.
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Lucretius and the Modern World (Classical Inter/Faces) (Classical Inter/faces)
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"St Jerome tells us that Lucretius was born in the year 94 BCE; that a love potion rendered him insane; that he wrote his poem in random moments of sanity; that Cicero edited (or maybe proofread) the manuscript he left behind when he committed suicide at the age of forty-four."
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