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

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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 percipis omnem
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              naturam rerum ac persentis utilitatem.)
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              <s id="s.000852">Atque animi quoniam docui natura quid esset
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              et quibus e rebus cum corpore compta vigeret
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              quove modo distracta rediret in ordia prima,
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              nunc agere incipiam tibi, quod vementer ad has res
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              attinet, esse ea quae rerum simulacra vocamus:
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              quae, quasi membranae summo de corpore rerum
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              dereptae, volitant ultroque citroque per auras,
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              atque eadem nobis vigilantibus obvia mentes
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              terrificant atque in somnis, cum saepe figuras
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              contuimur miras simulacraque luce carentum,
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              quae nos horrifice languentis saepe sopore
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              excierunt: ne forte animas Acherunte reamur
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              effugere aut umbras inter vivos volitare
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              neve aliquid nostri post mortem posse relinqui,
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              cum corpus simul atque animi natura perempta
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              in sua discessum dederint primordia quaeque.
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              <s id="s.000853">Dico igitur rerum effigias tenuisque figuras
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              mittier ab rebus summo de corpore rerum,
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              quoi quasi membranae, vel cortex nominitandast,
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              quod speciem ac formam similem gerit eius imago
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