Lucretius, De rerum natura: Libri Sex, 1566

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              <s id="s.000869">T. LUCRETII CARI</s>
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              <s id="s.000870">DE RERUM NATURA, </s>
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              <s id="s.000871">LIBER QUARTUS</s>
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              Avia Pieridum peragro loca, nullius ante
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              Trita solo: iuvat integros accedere fontis,
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              Atque haurire, iuvatque novos decerpere flores,
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              Insignemque meo capiti petere inde coronam,
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              Unde prius nulli velarint tempora musae.</s>
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              Primum quod magnis doceo de rebus, & artis
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              Relligionum animum nodis exsolvere pergo:
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              Deinde, quod obscura de re tam lucida pango
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              Carmina, musaeo contingens cuncta lepore.</s>
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              Id quoque enim non ab nulla ratione videtur:
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              Nam veluti, pueris absinthia taetra medentes
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              Cum dare conantur, prius oras poetila circum
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              Contingunt mellis dulci, flavoque liquore,
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              Ut puerorum aetas inprovida ludificetur
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              Labrorum tenus: interea perpotet amarum
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              Absinthi laticem, deceptaque non capiatur;
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              Sed potius tali facto recreata valescat:
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              Sic ego nunc, quoniam haec ratio plerumque videtur
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              Tristior esse, quibus non est tractata, retroque
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              Volgus abhorret ab hac; volui tibi suaviloquenti
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              Carmine Pierio rationem exponere nostram,
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              Et quasi musaeo dulci contingere melle:
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              Si tibi forte animum tali ratione tenere
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              Versibus in nostris possem, dum perscipis omnem
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