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

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              ex infinito iam tempore adhuc potuissent
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              inmensi validas aevi contemnere vires.
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              <s id="s.001259">Denique tantopere inter se cum maxima mundi
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              pugnent membra, pio nequaquam concita bello,
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              nonne vides aliquam longi certaminis ollis
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              posse dari finem ?</s>
              <s id="s.001260"> vel cum sol et vapor omnis
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              omnibus epotis umoribus exsuperarint:
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              quod facere intendunt, neque adhuc conata patrantur:
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              tantum suppeditant amnes ultraque minantur
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              omnia diluviare ex alto gurgite ponti,
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              nequiquam, quoniam verrentes aequora venti
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              deminuunt radiisque retexens aetherius sol,
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              et siccare prius confidunt omnia posse
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              quam liquor incepti possit contingere finem.</s>
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              <s id="s.001261">tantum spirantes aequo certamine bellum
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              magnis
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              inter se
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              de rebus cernere certant,
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              cum semel interea fuerit superantior ignis
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              et semel, ut fama est, umor regnarit in arvis.
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              ignis enim superat et lambens multa perussit,
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              avia cum Phaethonta rapax vis solis equorum
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              aethere raptavit toto terrasque per omnis.</s>
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              <s id="s.001262">at pater omnipotens ira tum percitus acri
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              magnanimum Phaethonta repenti fulminis ictu
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              deturbavit equis in terram, solque cadenti
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              obvius aeternam succepit lampada mundi
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              disiectosque redegit equos iunxitque trementis,
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              inde suum per iter recreavit cuncta gubernans,
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              scilicet ut veteres Graium cecinere poetae.
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              quod procul a vera nimis est ratione repulsum.</s>
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              <s id="s.001263">ignis enim superare potest ubi materiai
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              ex infinito sunt corpora plura coorta;
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              inde cadunt vires aliqua ratione revictae,
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              aut pereunt res exustae torrentibus auris.
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