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Martin Ferguson Smith's work on Lucretius is both well known and highly regarded. However, his 1969 translation of De Rerum Natura--long out of print--is virtually unknown. Readers will share our excitement in the discovery of this accurate and fluent prose rendering. For this edition,... read more
First Sentence
Life-stirring Venus,1 Mother of Aeneas and of Rome, Pleasure2 of men and gods, you make all things beneath the dome Of sliding constellations teem, you throng the fruited earth And the ship-freighted sea - for every species comes to birth Conceived through you, and rises forth and gazes on the light.
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Authors & Contributors
- Titus Lucretius Carus (Author)
Other Contributors:
- John Selby (Translator)
- J. S. Watson (Translator)
- Charles Frederick Johnson (Translator)
- Sir Ronald Melville (Translator)
- Anthony M. Esolen (Author)
- R. E. Latham (Translator)
- Alicia Stallings (Translator)
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