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Lucretius de Rerum Natura 5.849–854

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  11 February 2009

C. W. Chilton
Affiliation:
University of Hull

Extract

For we see that many happenings must be united for things, that they may be able to beget and propagate their races; first that they may have food, and then a way whereby birth-giving seeds may pass through their frames, and issue from their slackened limbs; and that woman may be joined with man, they must needs each have means whereby they can interchange mutual joys.

Type
Research Article
Copyright
Copyright © The Classical Association 1980

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