Associations to the word «Lucretius»

Wiktionary

LUCRETIUS, proper noun. A male given name of mostly historical use in English.
LUCRETIUS, proper noun. Titus Lucretius Carus, a Roman poet and philosopher.

Dictionary definition

LUCRETIUS, noun. Roman philosopher and poet; in a long didactic poem he tried to provide a scientific explanation of the universe (96-55 BC).

Wise words

Words are always getting conventionalized to some secondary meaning. It is one of the works of poetry to take the truants in custody and bring them back to their right senses.
William Butler Yeats