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Annales (Ennius)
Ennius's Annals
also: annales Enni, Annals of Ennius, Annales
The epic chronicle of Roman history in hexameters by Quintus Ennius, the foundational Latin epic. Cicero invokes it to ridicule the idea that random atoms could produce an ordered poem.
Reading notes
- On the Nature of the Gods §2.93 the Annals of Ennius could be produced
Ennius's Annals, the national epic of early Rome. Balbus's reductio: that a world could form from random atomic collisions is as absurd as letters tossed at random producing Ennius's poem.