The poet
historical figure · 4 works · 4 mentions · 9 anchored passages
the poet · الشاعر · Gaius Lucilius · I · Lucilius · we ourselves
spoken of as
2 expressionsGaius Lucilius“the poet”1 mention
Lucullus (Latin)
hear in what way the same things are said by Clitomachus in that book which he wrote to Gaius Lucilius the poet, when he had written on the same matters to Lucius Censorinus, the one who was consul with Manius Manilius.
Lucretius“the poet”1 mention
De Rerum Natura (Latin)
Give me sharp ears and a sagacious mind,-
in the texts
Adab al-wazīr
The recurring unnamed poet, cited four times in this window to clinch a prose maxim with a line of verse.
Boldness becomes obligatory only when its grounds appear — an opening you may snatch or a strength you find — and when you make for its doors in their proper time and when it is possible, as the poet said:
If you come at a matter by other than its door, you go astray — but aim for the door and you are guided.
Never trust the days with a freeborn man you have wronged — for the night of a wronged nobleman is no sleeping night.
Lucullus
Roman satirist to whom Clitomachus addressed a book explaining Carneades's teaching on withholding assent.
hear in what way the same things are said by Clitomachus in that book which he wrote to Gaius Lucilius the poet, when he had written on the same matters to Lucius Censorinus, the one who was consul with Manius Manilius.
De Rerum Natura
The narrating poet-philosopher, author of De Rerum Natura, who addresses the reader directly and cites himself as an example of dreaming about one's habitual pursuit (writing the poem).
Give me sharp ears and a sagacious mind,-
And we ourselves indeed to make this book,
In these my country's leaves.
Kitāb mīzān al-ḥaqq fī al-manṭiq
An unnamed poet whose single verse on the corruption of thought is quoted as an illustration of deceived judgment
And thought may go corrupt in the state it is in — so that it makes you fancy the pearl to be a drop of the night dew
As the poet said: