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Lucretius (Titus Lucretius Carus) (c.99-c.55 B.C.). Roman poet, best known for De Rerum Natura, espousing the philosophy that "everything happens in accordance with fixed laws of nature and not by divine intervention." (The New International Encyclopaedia, Vol. XIV, New York: Dodd, Mead & Co., 1920, 449.)
Francis L. Hawks, ed. Pictorial Cyclopaedia of Biography (New York: D. Appleton & Co., 1856) 514. From an antique gem.
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