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Homoeomeria

homoeomeria

Anaxagoras's doctrine (a Greek term Lucretius says Latin cannot render) that things are composed of minute parts of the same kind -- bone of tiny bones, blood of tiny drops of blood, and so on. Lucretius rejects it.

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On the Nature of Things poem · 1 mention

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