Author: Lucretius

Cited by

• Matt Ridley (16)
  • IN: The Evolution of Everything (2015) Non-Fiction, Philosophy, British
    EPIGRAPH: Nothing can be made from nothing -- once we see that's so, / Already we are on the way to what we know: / What can things be fashioned from? And how is it without / The machinations of the gods, all things can come about?
    FROM: De Rerum Natura, Book 1, (-50), Poem, Rome
• Tim Baker (1)
  • IN: Fever City (2015) Fiction, Australian
    EPIGRAPH: No one is who they appear in a world that is constantly changing
    FROM: On Nature of Things, (-50), Book, Italy
• Virgil (translated by Fitzgerald, Robert) (1)
  • IN: The Aeneid (None) Fiction, NULL
    EPIGRAPH: Aeternum dictis da diva leporem.
    FROM: De Rerum Natura, (-50), Poem, Italy
• Mark Helprin (1)
  • IN: In Sunlight and In Shadow (2012) Fiction, American
    EPIGRAPH: Alma Venus, coeli subter labentia signa Quae mare navigerum, quae terras frugiferentes Concelebras... Quae... rerum naturam sola gubernas Nec sine te quidquam dias in luminis oras Exoritur, neque fit laetum neque amabile quidquam... (Life-giving Venus, who beneath the gliding stars of heaven Fills with your presence the sea that bears our ships And the land that bears our crop... You alone govern the nature of things, And nothing comes forth into the shores of light Or is glad or lovely without you...)
    FROM: De Rerum Natura, I, (-50), Book, Italy
• Dean Koontz (1)
  • IN: Lightning (1988) Fiction, Fantasy, Science Fiction, Thriller, American
    EPIGRAPH: The wailing of the newborn infant is mingled with the dirge for the dead.
    FROM: NULL, (None), [NA], Italy
• Horace Smith (1)
  • IN: Festivals, Games, and Amusements, Ancient and Modern (1831) Fiction, British
    EPIGRAPH: FLORIFERIS UT APES IN SALTIBUS OMNIA LIBANT.
    FROM: Titi Lvcreti Cari de Rervm Natvra Liber Tertivs, (None), NULL, Italy
• George Harrar (1)
  • IN: Reunion at Red Paint Bay (2013) Fiction, American
    EPIGRAPH: Tis a pleasant thing, from the shore, to behold the drowning of another ... not because it is a grateful pleasure for anyone to be in misery, but because it is a pleasant thing to see those misfortunes from which you yourself are free.
    FROM: On the Nature of Things, (-50), Poem, Italy
• John Lescroart (1)
  • IN: The Ophelia Cut (2013) Fiction, American
    EPIGRAPH: Violence and injury enclose in their net all that do such things, and generally return upon him who began.
    FROM: De Rerum Natura, (-50), Poem, Italy
• Camille Di Maio (1)
  • IN: Before the Rain Falls (2017) Fiction, American
    EPIGRAPH: The drops of rain make a hole in the stone, not by violence, but by oft falling.
    FROM: NULL, (None), NULL, Italy
• Thomas Hardy (1)
  • IN: The Hand of Ethelberta (1876) Fiction, NULL
    EPIGRAPH: Vitae post-scenia celant.
    FROM: NULL, (None), NULL, NULL
• NULL (1)
  • IN: The prince of Wales: a poem. (1702) Poetry, NULL
    EPIGRAPH: Magis in dubiis hominem Spectare periclis Convenit, adversisque in rebus noscere qui sit: Nam verae voces tum demum pectore ab imo Ejiiciantur, & eripitur persona, manet Res.
    FROM: De Rerum Natura, Book 3, (-50), Poem, Italy
• Jonathan Swift (1)
  • IN: A tale of a tub. Written for the universal improvement of mankind. To which is added, an account of a battel between the antient and modern books in St. James's library. (1704) Book, Irish
    EPIGRAPH: Juvatque novos decerpore flores, Insignemque meo capiti potere inde coronam, Unde prius nulli tempora Musae
    FROM: De Rerum Natura, Book 1, (-50), Poem, Italy
• Gentleman of Cambridge (1)
  • IN: Arimant and Tamira: an eastern tale. In the Manner of Dryden's Fables. By a Gentleman of Cambridge. (1707) Book, British
    EPIGRAPH: ad aras Deducta est; non, ut, Solenni more Sacrorum Perfecto, posset claro comitari Hymenaeo, Sed casta inceste nubendi tempore in ipso Hostia conciderit mactatu maesta parentis
    FROM: De Rerum Natura, Book 1, (-50), Poem, Italy