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Formido (Dread)
Dread
also: Formido
Dread personified. Lucretius sees the 'faces of black Dread' in storm-clouds, an image he at once explains as mere atomic film.
Reading notes
- On the Nature of Things §4.9 Dread
Formido, terror personified; the 'faces of black Dread' in storm-clouds are at once explained away as mere films of atoms.