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I was working today and needing to find the references to "continuous" pleasure and had a hard time finding them. Here are a couple: USENER 116 Plutarch, Against Colotes, 17, p. 1117A: Such is ... the man who, in in the letter to Anaxarchus can pen such words as these: “But I, for my part, summon you to sustained pleasures and not to empty virtues, which fill us with vain expectations that destroy peace of mind.” CICERO's ON ENDS XII. The truth of the position that pleasure is the ultimate good …

Thank you guys for those additional cites!

In the example of the last day comment it does strike me that the shade of meaning is pretty close, but it definitely helps to point out the use of different words. We tend to put a lot of weight on small subtleties and we really need to be careful about that. Especially in Lucretius it seems like they often stated things in multiple ways for clarity, so that could be another factor in the use of different words too.