Certainly his poems were much appreciated, for example Lucretius admired his hexametric poetry. |
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Typically, Johnson would have no time for the philosophical materialism or cosmogonical speculation of Epicurus, Lucretius, and their followers. |
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He knew patristic literature, as well as Pliny the Elder, Virgil, Lucretius, Ovid, Horace and other classical writers. |
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One slight difference is that Democritus's atomism is deterministic whereas the atomism of Lucretius and Epicurus is random. |
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The simple number schemes he favored for this purpose are more ancient than the atomist theory of Lucretius, and more obvious. |
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One of the greatest Latin philosophers along with Lucretius and Seneca. |
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