Lucretius, De rerum natura: Libri Sex (Vol. I, Text), 1893

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              exitus ut classi felix faustusque daretur. </s>
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              tantum religio potuit suadere malorum.
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              <s id="s.000023">Tutemet a nobis iam quovis tempore vatum
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              terriloquis victus dictis desciscere quaeres.</s>
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              <s id="s.000024">quippe etenim quam multa tibi iam fingere possunt
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              somnia quae vitae rationes vertere possint
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              fortunasque tuas omnis turbare timore!
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              et merito; nam si certam finem esse viderent
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              aerumnarum homines, aliqua ratione valerent
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              religionibus atque minis obsistere vatum.</s>
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              <s id="s.000025">nunc ratio nulla est restandi, nulla facultas,
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              aeternas quoniam poenas in morte timendumst.</s>
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              <s id="s.000026">ignoratur enim quae sit natura animai,
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              nata sit an contra nascentibus insinuetur,
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              et simul intereat nobiscum morte dirempta
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              an tenebras Orci visat vastasque lacunas
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              an pecudes alias divinitus insinuet se,
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              Ennius ut noster cecinit qui primus amoeno
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              detulit ex Helicone perenni fronde coronam,
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              per gentis Italas hominum quae clara clueret;
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              etsi praeterea tamen esse Acherusia templa
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              Ennius aeternis exponit versibus edens,
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              quo neque permaneant animae neque corpora nostra,
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              sed quaedam simulacra modis pallentia miris;
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              unde sibi exortam semper florentis Homeri
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              commemorat speciem lacrimas effundere salsas
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              coepisse, et rerum naturam expandere dictis.</s>
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              <s id="s.000027">quapropter bene eum superis de rebus habenda
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              nobis est ratio, solis lunaeque meatus
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              qua fiant ratione, et qua vi quaeque gerantur
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              in terris, tum cum primis ratione sagaci
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              unde anima atque animi constet natura videndum;
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              et quae res nobis, vigilantibus obvia, mentes
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