To whom did Lucretius either have a friendship or client relationship with?
C. J. Thomsen
Virgil
Gaius Memmius
Poggio Bracciolini
Answer
Lucretius had a friendship or client relationship with Gaius Memmius. Lucretius was a Roman poet and philosopher who wrote the De rerum natura ("On the Nature of Things"), an epic poem that expounds the Epicurean philosophy. Gaius Memmius was a Roman politician and statesman who was a patron of Lucretius and other artists and intellectuals.
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