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| | Lucretius [Internet Encyclopedia of Philosophy] |
 | | In 54 BC (one year after Lucretius' death), he stood for consul, but was defeated owing to an electoral violation, which he himself revealed but was afterwards condemned for. |
 | | In 52 BC he went into exile at Athens, and it is unknown whether he ever returned to Rome. |
 | | Epicurus was born at Samos, an Athenian colony, in 341 BC. |
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