Top translation, top footnotes.
Lucretius really does write about all things. Encyclopaedic, because he feels he needs to cover it all, or because that’s all that’s explained by his materialism, atomism?
It’s structured like a workbook, there’s the opportunity to check your answers as you according to Lucretius' beliefs.
Could we ever write with such surety now? Sweeping accounts of it all?
Epicureanism seems very similar to Stoicism except with materialism substituted for the divine, perhaps it was just written worse.
As always, such a text must be approach with less demands of the text, more of oneself.