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Life and literature in the Roman republic

Note 4 — Chapter VIII · LUCRETIUS AND HIS READERS

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Marx was of course in error in stating that the name Carus implied humble ancestry. See “The Name T. Lucretius Carus,” in Studies in Honor of Hermann Collitz (1930); p. 63.

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