Living Poets

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Titus Lucretius poeta nascitur. qui postea amatorio poculo in furorem uersus, cum aliquot libros per interualla insaniae conscripsisset, quos postea Cicero emendauit, propria se manu interfecit anno aetatis XLIIII.
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The poet Titus Lucretius was born. In later life he was sent mad by a love-potion. Having composed a number of books in the intervals of his madness, later edited by Cicero, he died by his own hand in the forty-fourth year of his life.
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