Although it may only be a legend, St. Jerome recorded, and Tennyson later repeated it in one of his  poems, that this man was driven insane due to drinking a love potion that was given to him by his wife.  
Although it may only be a legend, St. Jerome recorded, and Tennyson later repeated it in one of his  poems, that this man was driven insane due to drinking a love potion that was given to him by his wife.  During his periods of lucidity, he wrote his only work, a six-part poem, and committed suicide in 55 BC  before he could complete it. The work, which was edited and published by Cicero, is a major source about  the philosophy of Democritus and Epicurus and early scientific thought. For ten points name this Roman  author of De rerum natura, or On the Nature of Things.
Although it may only be a legend, St. Jerome recorded, and Tennyson later repeated it in one of his  poems, that this man was driven insane due to drinking a love potion that was given to him by his wife.  
Titus Lucretius Carus