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

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              terrificet morbo adfectis, somnoque sepultis,
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              cernere uti videamur eos audireque coram,
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              morte obita quorum tellus amplectitur ossa. </s>
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              <s id="s.000028">nec me animi fallit Graiorum obscura reperta
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              difficile inlustrare Latinis versibus esse,
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              multa novis verbis praesertim cum sit agendum
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              propter egestatem linguae et rerum novitatem;
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              sed tua me virtus tamen et sperata voluptas
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              suavis amicitiae quernvis sufferre Iaborem
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              suadet et inducit noctes vigilare serenas
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              quaerentem dictis quibus et quo carmine demum
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              clara tuae possim praepandere lumina menti,
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              res quibus occultas penitus convisere possis.
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              <s id="s.000029">Hunc igitur terrorem animi tenebrasque necessest
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              non radii solis neque lucida tela diei
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              discutiant, sed naturae species ratioque.</s>
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              <s id="s.000030">principium cuius hinc nobis exordia sumet,
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              nullam rem e nilo gigni divinitus umquam. </s>
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              <s id="s.000031">quippe ita formido mortalis continet omnis,
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              quod multa in terris fieri caeloque tuentur
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              quorum operum causas nulla ratione videre
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              possunt ac fieri divino numine rentur. </s>
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              <s id="s.000032">quas ob res ubi viderimus nil posse creari
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              de nilo, tum quod sequimur iam rectius inde
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              perspiciemus, et unde queat res quaeque creari
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              et quo quaeque modo fiant opera sine divom.</s>
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              <s id="s.000033"> Nam si de nilo fierent, ex omnibus rebus
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              omne gentis nasci posset, nil semine egeret. </s>
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              <s id="s.000034">e mare primum homines, e terra posset oriri
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              squamigerum genus et volucres erumpere caelo;
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              armenta atque aliae pecudes, genus omne ferarum,
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              incerto partu culta ac deserta tenerent.</s>
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