Talk:Lucretius

Possunt ac fieri divino numine rentur AND Nil posse creari de nihilo
The quotation on the page (or its translation) is wrong. I hope this help. –p joe f (talk • contribs) 14:10, 27 March 2012 (UTC)


 * Fixed now, thanks. ~ DanielTom (talk) 17:29, 25 March 2013 (UTC)

My simpler translation, or what I'm sure it means: Terror really holds all mortals in fear since they see a lot of phenomena in earth and in the sky whose causes, they can not see principle of, and they think them the work of supernatural beings. --Jondel (talk) 09:40, 24 July 2013 (UTC)

Source of Translations
I happened to notice that on a few of the other Wikiquote pages, there is at least some mention on the translations from which the quotations are culled. Can anyone share some of the translations--there appears to be many, considering some are in prose while others are in verse--used for this page?
 * We don't know the sources; the translations really should be replaced by modern academic ones and clearly sourced to them. --Aphorist (talk) 07:45, 30 September 2013 (UTC)

If you don't know the sources, how you were able to obtain these quotes in the first place? I can see that some of the older ones were in place even after the first edit on this page was made.
 * Contributors who added these quotes presumably knew where they found them, but did not bother to tell us. Failing to cite one's source is really lame. ~ Ningauble (talk) 17:08, 7 October 2013 (UTC)
 * ✅ now. ~ DanielTom (talk) 13:07, 9 September 2017 (UTC)

Quotation lacking context

 * Omniparens eadem rerum commune sepulcrum
 * "The mother and the sepulchre of all."
 * De Rerum Natura, Book V


 * Note: this quotation refers to the Earth. ~ DanielTom (talk) 13:56, 9 September 2017 (UTC)