His Dē Rērum Nātūrā showed up in the middle ages. It is atheistic, atomistic, and epicurean. The Classical Latin in it was so Superior to the Barbarous Ecclesiastical Proto-Italian Latin that humanists, scholars of human wisdom, really wanted to study it, for it’s meter and syntax… however, not a few of these were subtly persuaded into Lucrētius’s apostasy from Medieval-Catholic Creationism.
Revilo P. Oliver called Medieval Latin: the Yiddish dialect of vulgar Latin. It made him wince, and he hated to subject himself to it.
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His Dē Rērum Nātūrā showed up in the middle ages. It is atheistic, atomistic, and epicurean. The Classical Latin in it was so Superior to the Barbarous Ecclesiastical Proto-Italian Latin that humanists, scholars of human wisdom, really wanted to study it, for it’s meter and syntax… however, not a few of these were subtly persuaded into Lucrētius’s apostasy from Medieval-Catholic Creationism.
Revilo P. Oliver called Medieval Latin: the Yiddish dialect of vulgar Latin. It made him wince, and he hated to subject himself to it.
Medieval saying. Certainly true in my own case.