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

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              qui nisi sunt veri, ratio quoque falsa fit omnis.
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              an poterunt oculos aures reprehendere, an aures
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              tactus?</s>
              <s id="s.000961"> an hunc porro tactum sapor arguet oris,
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              an confutabunt nares oculive, revincent?</s>
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              non, ut opinor, ita est. </s>
              <s id="s.000963">nam seorsum cuique potestas
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              divisast, sua vis cuiquest, ideoque necesse est
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              et quod molle sit et gelidum fervensve
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              seorsum
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              et seorsum varios rerum sentire colores
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              et quaecumque coloribu' sint coniuncta
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              videre.
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              seorsus item sapor oris habet vim, seorsus odores
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              nascuntur, sorsum sonitus. </s>
              <s id="s.000964">ideoque necesse est
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              non possint alios alii convincere sensus.</s>
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              <s id="s.000965">nec porro poterunt ipsi reprehendere sese,
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              aequa fides quoniam debebit semper haberi.</s>
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              <s id="s.000966">proinde quod in quoquest his visum tempore, verumst.</s>
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              <s id="s.000967">et si non poterit ratio dissolvere causam,
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              cur ea quae fuerint iuxtim quadrata, procul sint
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              visa rutunda, tamen praestat rationis egentem
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              reddere mendose causas utriusque figurae,
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              quam manibus manifesta suis emittere quoquam
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              et violare fidem primam et convellere tota
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              fundamenta quibus nixatur vita salusque.</s>
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              <s id="s.000968">non modo enim ratio ruat omnis, vita quoque ipsa
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              concidat extemplo, nisi credere sensibus ausis
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              praecipitisque locos vitare et cetera quae sint
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              in genere hoc fugienda, sequi contraria quae sint.
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              illa tibi est igitur verborum copia cassa
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              omnis quae contra sensus instructa paratast.</s>
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              <s id="s.000969">denique ut in fabrica, si pravast regula prima,
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              normaque si fallax rectis regionibus exit,
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              et libella aliqua si ex parti claudicat hilum,
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              omnia mendose fieri atque obstipa necesse est
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              prava cubantia prona supina atque absona tecta,
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              iam ruere ut quaedam videantur velle, ruantque
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