Tanto fortior, tanto felicior! -- The more pluck, the better luck!Tantum quantum -- Just as much as.Tantum vertice in auras / Aetherias quantum radice in Tartara tendit -- Its summit stretches as far into the upper ether as its root into the nether deep....
Lucretius does not usually employ Greek words in his poem, except those thathad been imported into Latin by earlier generations (such asaether, elephantus,lympha, theater); a rare exception isphilema(φίλημα; IV.1169, vol.2, p.46),‘kiss’,which is attested in Latin only here....
aether caelum aer uer sol iubar autumnus terra mare. 1b maria tamen quamuis dicantur pluraliter, quamuis maria dicitur, 1c attamen nec marium nec maribus dicemus. nec marium nec maribus. 1d et terras pro terrae regionibus accipimus. 2a Item metallica semper singularia sunt, ut...