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Sacred Texts: The Classics

ON THE NATURE OF THINGS

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50 BC ON THE NATURE OF THINGS by Titus Lucretius Carus Translated by William Ellery Leonard BOOK I PROEM Mother of Rome, delight of Gods and men, Dear Venus that beneath the gliding stars Makest to teem the many-voyaged main And fruitful lands- for all of living things Through thee alone are evermore conceived, Through thee are risen to visit the great sun- Before thee, Goddess, and thy coming on, Flee stormy wind and massy cloud away, For thee the daedal Earth bears scented flowers, For thee…