{"collection":"Sacred Texts: The Classics","full_text_available":false,"graph_url":"https://unchartedknowledge.5gfusion.net/v2/api/page/sacred_texts_v1_cla_dererum_htm/graph","html_url":"https://unchartedknowledge.5gfusion.net/v2/page/sacred_texts_v1_cla_dererum_htm","id":"sacred_texts_v1_cla_dererum_htm","license":"unknown_pending_legal_review","rights_basis":"sacred_texts_v1_preview_gate_primary_text_only; acquisition-method/ToS and compilation-copyright questions still open, not resolved by this gate","source":"sacred_texts_v1","source_url":"https://unchartedknowledge.5gfusion.net/browse/cla/dererum.htm","summary":"50 BC\nON THE NATURE OF THINGS\nby Titus Lucretius Carus\nTranslated by William Ellery Leonard\nBOOK I\nPROEM\nMother of Rome, delight of Gods and men,\nDear Venus that beneath the gliding stars\nMakest to teem the many-voyaged main\nAnd fruitful lands- for all of living things\nThrough thee alone are evermore conceived,\nThrough thee are risen to visit the great sun-\nBefore thee, Goddess, and thy coming on,\nFlee stormy wind and massy cloud away,\nFor thee the daedal Earth bears scented flowers,\nFor thee\u2026","tags":[],"text":null,"title":"ON THE NATURE OF THINGS","tradition":"Sacred Texts: The Classics","translated_text":null,"word_count":74075}