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| Alphabetical [« »] centaur 1 centaurs 3 centaury 2 centre 13 centres 1 cerberus 1 cerberus-visages 1 | Frequency [« »] 14 wood 13 becomes 13 breath 13 centre 13 chance 13 contrariwise 13 corporeal | Titus Lucretius Carus On the Nature of Things Concordances centre |
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1 I| The core of being at the centre hid.~ And for the rest, 2 I| all things inward to the centre press;~ And thus the nature 3 I| Have always inward to the centre pressed~ (If thou art ready 4 I| reasoning perverse~ For centre none can be where world 5 I| Boundless, nor yet, if now a centre were,~ Could aught take 6 I| void~ Must both through centre and non-centre yield~ Alike 7 I| overcome~ By craving for a centre.~ But besides,~ Seeing they 8 I| not all bodies press~ To centre inward, rather only those~ 9 I| Is borne asunder from the centre, and how,~ For this all 10 I| Because the heat, from out the centre flying,~ All gathers there), 11 III| ruin sight. But if that centre,~ That tiny part of eye, 12 V| condensed~ About its proper centre), ever the more~ The salty 13 V| whole~ Weight of the body to centre in the feet.~ But whatso