person
Lucretius
Roman poet (c. 99--55 BC), author of the Epicurean epic De Rerum Natura. Seneca quotes his line on the man who flees himself.
Reading notes
- On Tranquility of Mind §2.14 Lucretius
Roman Epicurean poet; the quoted line ('in this way each man is always fleeing himself') is from De Rerum Natura 3.1068.
- Moral Letters to Lucilius §6.58.12 Lucretius
Titus Lucretius Carus (c. 99--55 BC), the Epicurean poet of De Rerum Natura; named here merely as an example of an individual man under the genus 'man.'