concept
Covenants of nature
covenants of nature
also: foedera naturai
The foedera naturai: the fixed laws or "binding compacts" by which each kind of thing has a determinate range of what it can and cannot do. A key phrase for Lucretius's lawful, godless cosmos.
Reading notes
- On the Nature of Things §5.18 covenants of nature
foedera naturae: the fixed laws that bind what each kind of thing can be and do; nothing in nature can transgress them.