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

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              <s id="s.000846">T. </s>
              <s id="s.000847">LUCRETI CARI</s>
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              <s id="s.000848">DE RERUM NATURA</s>
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              <s id="s.000849">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;
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              primum quod magnis doceo de rebus et artis
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              religionum 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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              <s id="s.000851">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 pocua 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 pacto 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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