Lucretius
luc·re·tius
noun
1.
Roman philosopher and poet; in a long didactic poem he tried to provide a scientific explanation of the universe (96-55 BC)
Origin
From Latin Lucretius, name of a patrician and plebeian Roman gens, possibly from lucrum (“profit”). Many people with the given name have no doubt been named after others so named, not necessarily after the 1st-century-BC Roman poet and philosopher.
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