natura
Short definition (Lewis & Short): birth.
Full entry: Lexicon.
729 occurrences of this form in 42 works (dictionary form exactly as written, accents ignored, v/u and j/i as single letters; inflected forms not included).
Works using this form
- De Rerum Natura
- Letters to Lucilius
- De Oratore
- De Officiis
- Gallic War
- De Re Publica
- Letters to Friends
- Letters
- Metamorphoses
- Satires
- History of Rome (Books 1–10)
- The Jugurthine War
- Civil War
- Satires
- Histories
- Annals
- Letters to Atticus
- On Tranquility of Mind
- Philippics
- The Conspiracy of Catiline
- On the Happy Life
- On the Shortness of Life
- Ars Amatoria
- Phaedra
- Georgics
- Epigrams
- Agricola
- Ars Poetica
- Life of Caligula
- The Golden Ass
- Life of Claudius
- Life of Tiberius
- Germania
- Against Catiline (Catilinarians)
- Epistles
- Life of Augustus
- Life of Julius Caesar
- Life of Nero
- Life of Titus
- Life of Vespasian
- Life of Vitellius
- Aeneid
Example passages
……dias in luminis oras exoritur neque fit laetum neque amabile quicquam, te sociam studeo scribendis versibus esse, quos ego de rerum natura pangere conor…
…Omnia, Lucili, aliena sunt, tempus tantum nostrum est. In huius rei unius fugacis ac lubricae possessionem natura nos misit, ex qua expellit quicumque vult. Et tanta stultitia mortalium est, ut quae minima et vilissima sunt, certe reparabilia, imputari sibi, cum impetravere, patiantur; nemo se iudicet quicquam……
……est, et ipsa oratio conformanda non solum electione, sed etiam constructione verborum, et omnes animorum motus, quos hominum generi rerum natura tribuit, penitus pernoscendi, quod omnis vis ratioque dicendi in eorum, qui audiunt, mentibus aut sedandis aut excitandis expromenda est; accedat eodem oportet lepos quidam facetiaeque et eruditio……