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

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              mens animi vigilat, nisi quod simulacra lacessunt
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              haec eadem nostros animos quae cuin vigilamus,
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              usque adeo, certe ut videamur cernere cum quem
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              rellicta vita iam mors et terra potitast. </s>
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              Hoc ideo fieri cogit natura, quod omnes
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              corporis offecti sensus per membra quiescunt
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              nec possunt falsum veris convincere rebus.</s>
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              <s id="s.001037">praeterea meminisse iacet languetque sopore
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              nec dissentit cum mortis letique potitum
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              iam pridem, quem mens vivom se cernere credit. </s>
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              quod superest, non est mirum simulacra moveri
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              bracchiaque in numerum iactare et cetera membra;
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              nam fit ut in somnis facere hoc videatur imago;
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              quippe ubi prima perit alioque est altera nata
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              inde statu, prior hic gestum mutasse videtur. </s>
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              scilicet id fieri celeri ratione putandumst:
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              tanta est mobilitas et rerum copia tanta
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              tantaque sensibili quovis est tempore in uno
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              copia particularum, ut possit suppeditare.
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              <s id="s.001040">(Multaque in his rebus quaeruntur multaque nobis
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              clarandumst, plane si res exponere avemus.</s>
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              <s id="s.001041">quaeritur in primis quare, quod cuique libido
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              venerit, extemplo mens cogitet eius id ipsum.
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              anne voluntatem nostram simulacra tuentur
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              et simul ac volumus nobis occurrit imago,
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              si mare, si terrast cordi, si denique caelum?</s>
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              conventus hominum pompam convivia pugnas,
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              omnia sub verbone creat natura paratque ?</s>
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              cum praesertim aliis eadem in regione locoque
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              longe dissimilis animus res cogitet omnis.</s>
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              <s id="s.001044">quid porro, in numerum procedere cum simulacra
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              cernimus in somnis et mollia membra movere,
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              mollia mobiliter cum alternis bracchia mittunt
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              et repetunt oculis gestum pede convenienti?</s>
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