De rerum natura
by Kenney, Edward John, Lucrecio Caro, Tito
fromCambridge Greek and Latin classics
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Type: Book
"The third book of Lucretius' great poem on the workings of the universe is devoted entirely to expounding the implications of Epicurus' dictum that death does not matter, 'is nothing to us'. The soul is not immortal: it no more exists after the dissolution of the body than it h…