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ANALYZE LATIN POETRY AND PROSE
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Scenario (Philosophical Reflection): Read Lucretius' Epicurean reassurance.
Latin (Lucretius, De Rerum Natura 3.830-837), lines I-VIII:
I. <span style="font-family:serif;">Nil igitur mors est ad nos neque pertinet hilum,</span>
II. <span style="font-family:serif;">quandoquidem natura animi mortalis habetur.</span>
III. <span style="font-family:serif;">et velut anteacto nil tempore sensimus aegri,</span>
IV. <span style="font-family:serif;">ad confligendum venientibus undique Poenis,</span>
V. <span style="font-family:serif;">omnia cum belli trepido concussa tumultu</span>
VI. <span style="font-family:serif;">horrida contremuere sub altis aetheris oris,</span>
VII. <span style="font-family:serif;">in dubioque fuere utrorum ad regna cadendum</span>
VIII. <span style="font-family:serif;">omnibus humanis esset terraque marique,</span>
Summary: Lucretius argues death is nothing to us; he uses historical exemplum to stress our prior non-existence.
Key phrases (attitude): Nil... mors est ad nos, neque pertinet hilum, logical connector quandoquidem.
Question: How does Lucretius' diction in lines I-II reflect his point of view?
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