Lucretian

We look back upon those side-rending moments with a kind of Lucretian pleasure, and indemnify ourselves for past constraint by a hearty guffaw.

Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine, Volume 61, No. 378, April, 1847 Various

Brackett gives us a sketch of the Lucretian notion of how the ennui of long-standing security makes the beneficiaries of earlier demonic banishments vulnerable to cultic revival.

Archive 2010-03-01 Blue Tyson 2010

The cult thus corresponds to a Lucretian lapsus in antiquas religiones.

Archive 2010-03-01 Blue Tyson 2010

Specifically, it was the materialist argument against Providence and Predestination – that Lucretian swerve of Free Will – which were at the heart of her Puritanism.

The Nose Knows : A.E. Stallings : Harriet the Blog : The Poetry Foundation 2007

I read Lucretius in college (in translation of course — I had two years of Greek, but no Latin, to my everlasting regret!) and remember only “the Lucretian swerve.”

The Nose Knows : A.E. Stallings : Harriet the Blog : The Poetry Foundation 2007

Vico's earliest publications were in poetry rather than philosophy-the Lucretian poem "Affetti di un disperato" ( "The Feelings of One in Despair") (composed in 1692) and "Canzone in morte di Antonio" ( "Ode on the Death of Antonio Carafa") both published in 1693.

Giambattista Vico Costelloe, Timothy 2008

Though he disagreed with the Lucretian/Epicuran idea that matter is governed by "blind chance" rather than binding

Introduction 2006

Although modern readers will find the details of this physiology hopelessly outdated, they can usefully replace Lucretian

Lucretius Sedley, David 2008

A tubercular, bitter personality and yet a sublime visionary, Ibn Gabirol can be thought of as a Hebrew Leopardi, though a Leopardi who is a Yahwistic theist rather than a Lucretian nihilist.

The Lost Jewish Culture Bloom, Harold 2007

It is as though Walt Whitman, Lucretian and self-reliant, were to be indistinguishable from T.S. Eliot, self-proclaimed royalist, Anglo-Catholic, and classicist.

The Lost Jewish Culture Bloom, Harold 2007