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Gaius Memmius. Gaius Memmius ( c. 99 – c. 49 BC, incorrectly called Gemellus, "The Twin") was a Roman politician, orator and poet. He is most famous as the dedicatee of Lucretius' De Rerum Natura, and for his appearances in the poetry of Catullus .
Gaius Memmius L. f. Geminus, son of Lucius Memmius, the triumvir monetalis of 109 BC, was an eloquent speaker and poet. He was tribune of the plebs in 66 BC, praetor in 58, and propraetor in Bithynia and Pontus the following year. He was the first husband of Fausta Cornelia, the daughter of Sulla.
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De rerum natura ( Latin: [deː ˈreːrʊn naːˈtuːraː]; On the Nature of Things) is a first-century BC didactic poem by the Roman poet and philosopher Lucretius ( c. 99 BC – c. 55 BC) with the goal of explaining Epicurean philosophy to a Roman audience. The poem, written in some 7,400 dactylic hexameters, is divided into six untitled books ...
- Lucretius
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De rerum natura (tr. Melville) 1.50 If I must speak, my noble Memmius, As nature's majesty now known demands De rerum natura (tr. Melville) 5.6 Virtually nothing is known about the life of Lucretius, and there is insufficient basis for a confident assertion of the dates of Lucretius's birth or death in other sources. Another, yet briefer, note is found in the Chronicon of Donatus's pupil ...
Other articles where Gauis Memmius is discussed: Catullus: Life: …in the retinue of Gaius Memmius, the Roman governor of the province, from which he returned to Sirmio. It also records two emotional crises, the death of a brother whose grave he visited in the Troad, also in Asia Minor, and an intense and unhappy love affair, portrayed variously in…
Gaius Valerius Catullus ( Classical Latin: [ˈɡaːiʊs waˈɫɛriʊs kaˈtʊllʊs]; c. 84 – c. 54 BC), known as Catullus ( kə-TUL-əs ), was a Latin neoteric poet of the late Roman Republic. His surviving works remain widely read due to their popularity as teaching tools and because of their personal or sexually explicit themes.
