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

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              Sed quasi adumbratim paulum simulata videntur. </s>
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              umbra videtur item nobis in sole moveri
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              et vestigia nostra sequi gestumque imitari;
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              aera si credis privatum lumine posse
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              indugredi, motus hominum gestumque sequentem;
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              nam nil esse potest aliut nisi lumine cassus
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              aer id quod nos umbram perhibere suemus. </s>
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              nimirum quia terra locis ex ordine certis
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              lumine privatur solis quacumque meantes
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              officimus, repletur item quod liquimus eius,
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              propterea fit uti videatur, quae fuit umbra
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              corporis, e regione eadem nos usque secuta. </s>
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              semper enim nova se radiorum lumina fundunt
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              primaque dispereunt, quasi in ignem lana trahatur. </s>
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              propterea facile et spoliatur lumine terra
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              et repletur item nigrasque sibi abluit umbras.
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              <s id="s.000932">Nec tamen hic oculos falli concedimus hilum. </s>
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              nam quocumque loco sit lux atque umbra tueri
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              illorum est; eadem vero sint lumina necne,
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              umbraque quae fuit hic eadem nunc transeat illuc,
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              an potius flat paulo quod diximus ante,
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              hoc animi demum ratio discernere debet,
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              nec possunt oculi naturam noscere rerum. </s>
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              proinde animi vitium hoc oculis adfingere noli. </s>
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              qua vehimur navi, fertur, cum stare videtur;
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              quae manet in statione, ea praeter creditur ire. </s>
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              et fugere ad puppim colles campique videntur
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              quos agimus praeter navem velisque volamus. </s>
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              sidera cessare aetheriis adfixa cavernis
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              cuncta videntur, et adsiduo sunt omnia motu,
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              quandoquidem longos obitus exorta revisunt,
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              cum permensa suo sunt caelum corpore claro. </s>
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              solque pari ratione manere et luna videntur
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              in statione, ea quae ferri res indicat ipsa. </s>
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              exstantisque procul medio de gurgite montis
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              classibus inter quos liber patet exitus ingens,
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