"If Lucretius had not been spoiled by the Epicurean system, we should have had a far superior poem to any now in existence. As mere poetry, it is the first of Latin poems."
— Lucretius

January 1, 1970

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Philosophers from RomeCritics of religionAtheistsEpic poetsPoets from Rome
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Lord Byron, letter to J. Murray on Bowles' Strictures on Pope (7 February 1821), in The Works of Lord Byron, Complete in One Volume (1826), p. 689