The library of Lucretius

1. Lucretius 2 authority · 3 extended 5 citations

   De Rerum Natura

   book 2 · book 3 · book 4 · book 6

   5 citations

   And since I've taught what the mind's nature is,

2. Annales Ennius 1 neutral 1 citation

   De Rerum Natura

   book 1

   1 citation

   Yet Ennius too in everlasting verse

Each of these stands at a single passage, named once and not held by the library. The work that names it carries the anchor.

De Rerum Natura

Babylonian doctrine of Chaldees · De Rerum Natura (earlier books/prior teaching of Epicurus as transmitted by the poet) · De Rerum Natura (philosophical doctrine) · Doctrine of homeomeria · Doctrine of the soul as 'harmony' · Doctrine that all things press to the centre · Epicurean physics / Epicurus's teachings · Epicurean physics / doctrine of atoms and void · On Nature / Peri Physeos (Empedocles) · On Nature / Peri Physeos (Heraclitus) · Theory of alternating body/soul particle interweaving · Traditional depictions of souls in the underworld · art of Greek astrologers · atomist doctrine on causes of stellar motion · charted diagrams of the zodiac · myth of Phaethon and the elemental war of fire and water · myths of the underworld (Tantalus, Tityus, Sisyphus, Danaids, Cerberus, Furies, Tartarus) · oracles of the Pythia at Delphi · philosophical doctrine of atomism / Epicureanism · popular belief that the gods govern the seasons and harvests · popular/folk belief about the gate of Orcus and soul-drawing under-gods · reported dream-visions and deathbed confessions · teachings of Epicurus (unnamed sage's doctrine) · the myth/cult of the Magna Mater (Cybele) as told by Greek poets · unspecified Etrurian oracular scrolls (fulgural/lightning-divination texts) · unspecified poetic tradition on Pallas and the Acropolis

5 works in the library quote Lucretius — 12 citations, each anchored to a verbatim passage in the work that does the quoting.

through Lucretius 8 citations · De Rerum Natura 4 citations

Lucretius 5 citations · Seneca, Lucius Annaeus 4 citations · Hugo Grotius 2 citations · Tertullian 1 citation

The harvest records where a citation is made: the paragraph in the citing book, and the chapter that paragraph stands in. It does not record which page of Lucretius is meant. Where the citing text names a locus, you will find it in the quotation.

1. De Rerum Natura Lucretius 2 authority · 3 extended 5 citations · 23 passages

   book 2 6 passages anchored here · book 3 4 passages anchored here · book 4 10 passages anchored here · book 6 3 passages anchored here

   Lucretius repeatedly invokes conclusions he 'has taught' or 'proved' earlier in the poem as authoritative premises for the present argument, constituting self-citation of his own prior teaching.

   (As amply shown and proved by reason sure)

2. Letters to Lucilius Seneca, Lucius Annaeus 2 authority · 1 refuted 3 citations · 4 passages

   letter 95 · letter 106 · letter 110 2 passages anchored here

   Explicitly cited: 'for nothing can touch or be touched save a body, as Lucretius says.'

   For nothing can touch or be touched save a body, as Lucretius says.

3. The Rights of War and Peace Hugo Grotius 2 authority 2 citations

   ch. 9 · ch. 24

   Explicitly named and quoted in paraphrase for this claim.

   ” On this subject Lucretius enlarges, observing that “every creature knows its own powers.

4. On Tranquillity of Mind Seneca, Lucius Annaeus 1 endorsed 1 citation · 2 passages

   on tranquillity of mind 2 passages anchored here

   The passage explicitly attributes the quoted line to Lucretius and Seneca builds directly upon its truth in the following paragraph.

   'Thus does each man forever flee himself.

5. De Anima Tertullian 1 authority 1 citation

   de anima

   Lucretius' line is directly quoted as authoritative support for the principle underlying the soul's corporeality.

   But Chrysippus too lends him a hand, laying it down that corporeal things can in no way be deserted by incorporeal ones, since they are not even touched by them — whence Lucretius too says, ‘For nothing but body can touch or be touched’ — and that the body, being deserted by the soul, is affected by death.