Lucretius, De rerum natura: Libri Sex, 1566

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              Quidve superbia, spurcitia ,ac petulantia, quantas
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              Efficiunt clades ? </s>
              <s id="s.001265"> quid luxus, desidiesque? </s>
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              Haec igitur qui cuncta subegerit, ex animoque
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              Expulerit dictis, non armis: nonne decebit
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              Hunc hominem numero divum dignarier esse? </s>
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              Cum bene praesertim multa, ac divinitus ipsis
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              Immortalibus de divis dare dicta suerit;
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              Atque omnem rerum naturam pandere dictis.</s>
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              <s id="s.001268">Cuius ego ingressus vestigia, dum rationes
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              Persequor; ac doceo dictis, quo quaeque creata
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              Foedere sint, in eo quam sit durare necessum;
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              Nec validas aevi valeant rescindere leges:
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              Quo genere in primis animi natura reperta est
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              Nativo primum consistere corpore creta ;
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              Nec posse incolumis magnum durare per aevum:
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              Sed simulacra solere in somnis fallere mentem,
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              Cernere cum videamur eum, quem vita reliquit.</s>
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              Quod superest, nunc huc rationis detulit ordo,
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              Ut mihi mortali consistere corpore mundum,
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              Nativumque simul ratio reddunda sit, esse:
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              Et quibus ille modis congressus materiai
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              Fundarit terram, caelum, mare, sidera, solem,
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              Lunaique globum: tum quae tellure animantes
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              Extiterint, & quae nullo sint tempore natae:
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              Quove modo genus humanum variante loquela
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              Coeperit inter se vesci per nomina rerum:
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              Et quibus ille modis divom metus insinuarit
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              Pectora, terrarum qui in orbi sancta tuetur
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              Fana, lacus, lucos, aras, simulacraque divum.</s>
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              Praeterea solis cursus, lunaeque meatus
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              Expediam, qua vi flectat natura gubernans:
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              Ne forte haec inter caelum, terramque reamur
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