Lucretius


On the Nature of the Universe

Book 1

laid low ... of love. pg. 10

since it is essential ... from anger. pg. 11

Do not scornfully ... them. pg. 11

When human ... of the sky. pg. 11

pg. 12 (74) he proclaimed ... impious deeds

pg. 12 (102) if you surrender ... of the spirit (112)

pg. 13 (143) This dread ... of nature.

pg. 13 The reason why ... aid of gods.

pg. 18 (128) A grasp of ... teaching.

pg. 20 (398) There are many ... it forth.

pg. 20 (421) the existence ... confirmation.

pg. 23 (127) And these ... of destruction.

For fools ... sound. pg. 25

pg. 32 (931) This is my reward ... architecture.

pg. 37 If you take a little ... upon facts.

Book 2

pg. 38 What joy it is ... of nature pg. 39 (61)

pg. 39 For we see ... our eyes.

pg. 39 Mortals live ... of life.

pg. 41 (122) To some ... great things.

pg. 46 (352) Outside some ... recognized.

pg. 51 (555) a warning to ... still surface.

pg. 51 The destructive ... obsequies.

pg. 52 (603) They harnessed ... parents.

pg. 52 They give her ... sunlit world.

pg. 53 (620) weapons to chasten ... divinity.

pg. 53 (646) For it is ... from anger.

pg. 63 (1026) But no fact ... extend to its flight. (1047)

pg. 66 (1155) The same earth in ... by old age.

Book 3

pg. 67 (15) As soon as ... every part.

pg. 67 In so doing ... workings of nature. pg. 69 (92)

pg. 74 (303) Cattle, again ... of the gods. pg. 75 (323)

pg. 77 (419) To this end ... a joy.

pg. 78 (445) With the weak ... same time.

pg. 78 (459) Furtermore ... in due order.

pg. 85 (731) In their bodiless .,. troubles.

pg. 87 (824) Equally vain ... oblivion.

pg. 87 (837) Death ... pg. 95 line 26

Book 4

pg. 95 (30) the existence of ... component atoms.

pg. 110 (589) Many such ... romancing.

pg. 111 (627) The pleasure ... of the stomache.

pg. 116 (807) You must have ... delusion.

pg. 118 (910) My answer will ... own blindness.

pg. 122 (1059) This, then ... sex is shared. pg. 126 (1207)

pg. 128 (179) Lastly, it is ... a stone.

Book 5

pg. 129 (18) But life ... of men.

pg. 130 (38) Even now ... the universe.

pg. 130 (56) explaining ... of eternity.

pg. 131 (79) For it may ... buried deep.

pg. 131 I am well ... event itself.

pg. 131 May reason ... convince you.

pg. 133 The revolutionary ... been created?

pg. 134 (198) In the first place ... clever inventor.

pg. 137 (347) There is no ... from life.

pg. 147 (728) as though the ... the other.

pg. 149 (820) For all things ... strength.

pg. 149 (827) For the nature ... now produce.

pg. 151 (868) They have gladly ... extinction.

pg. 152 (920) each species ... of nature.

pg. 154 (988) The proportion ... than now.

pg. 154 (1005) Then, when ... other people.

pg. 154 (1016) Children by ... present.

pg. 155 (1032) For every ... own power.

pg. 157 (1105) As time ... the daylight. pg. 158 (1160)

pg. 159 (1177) They pictured ... effort.

pg. 159 Poor humanity ... the universe. pg. 160 (1241)

pg. 161 (1275) So bronze ... praises.

pg. 163 (1354) For the ... arts.

pg. 165 (1407) This remains ... tides of war. note 127

pg. 166 (1447) So we find ... peak.

Book 6

pg. 167 (4) It was Athens ... workings of nature. pg. 168 (41)

pg. 168 (50) also the other ... of the heavens. pg. 169 (85)

pg. 184 (672) But the ... universe.

pg. 184 (703) there are some .. the same way.

pg. 194 How many other ...

pg. 195 (1140) Of this nature ... their dead. pg. 199 (1286)

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