Lucretius, De rerum natura: Libri Sex, 1566

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              Sentibus obducat, ni vis humana resistat,
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              Vitai causa valido consueta bidenti
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              Ingemere; & terram pressis proscindere aratris.</s>
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              Si non fecundas vertentes vomere glebas,
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              Terraique solum subigentes cimus ad ortus;
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              Sponte sua nequeant liquidas existere in auras.</s>
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              Et tamen interdum magno quaesita labore,
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              Cum iam per terras frondent, atque omnia florent;
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              Aut nimijs torret fervoribus aethereus sol;
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              Aut subiti perimunt imbris, gelidaeque pruinae;
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              Flabraque ventorum violento turbine vexant.</s>
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              Praeterea genus horriferum, natura ferarum,
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              Humanae genti infestum, terraque, marique,
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              Cur alit, atque auget? </s>
              <s id="s.001308"> cur anni tempora morbos
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              Adportant? </s>
              <s id="s.001309"> quare mors inmatura vagatur? </s>
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              Tum porro puer, ut saevis proiectus ab undis
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              Navita, nudus humi iacet, infans, indigus omni
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              Vitai auxilio; cum primum in luminis oras
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              Nixibus ex alvo matris natura profudit:
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              Vagituque locum lugubri complet, ut aequum est
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              Cui tantum in vita restet transire malorum.</s>
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              At variae crescunt pecudes, armenta, feraeque:
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              Nec crepitacula eis opus sunt; nec cuiquam adhibenda est
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              Almae nutricis blanda, atque infracta loquela
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              Nec varias quaerunt vestes pro tempore caeli.</s>
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              Denique non armis opus est, non moenibus altis,
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              Qui sua tutentur; quando omnibus omnia large
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              Tellus ipsa parit, naturaque daedala rerum.</s>
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              <s id="s.001313">Principio quoniam terrai corpus, & humor,
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              Aurarumque leves animae, calidique vapores,
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              E quibus haec rerum consistere summa videtur,
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              Omnia nativo, ac mortali corpore constant;
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