Epicurus

[ ep-i-kyoo r-uh s ]

/ ˌɛp ɪˈkyʊər əs /

342?–270 b.c., Greek philosopher.

Example sentences from the Web for epicurus

Much more I, who am apt to get too near that ugly 'sty of Epicurus' sometimes!

The Letters of Elizabeth Barrett Browning, Volume II |Elizabeth Barrett Browning
Do those grandiloquent gentlemen state anything better than Epicurus in opposition to these two things which distress us the most?

Cicero's Tusculan Disputations |Marcus Tullius Cicero
The Volumina Herculanensia (1st and 2nd series) contain fragments of treatises by Epicurus and members of his school.

Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 9, Slice 6 |Various
In any particular case, however, Epicurus is not interested to know what particular causes determine a phenomenon.

A Critical History of Greek Philosophy |W. T. Stace

Epicurus relates, that poetry hath such charms that a lover might forsake his mistress to partake of them.

Essays |Ralph Waldo Emerson

Epicurus

/ (ˌɛpɪˈkjʊərəs) /

341–270 bc, Greek philosopher, who held that the highest good is pleasure and that the world is a series of fortuitous combinations of atoms