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

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              propter dissimilis formas variasque figuras
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              quod non omnia sic poterant coniuncta manere
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              nec motus inter sese dare convenientis. </s>
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              diffugere inde loci partes coepere paresque
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              cum paribus iungi res et discludere mundum
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              membraque dividere et magnas disponere partes,
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              hoc est, a terris altum secernere caelum
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              et sorsum mare uti secreto umore pateret,
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              seorsus item puri secretique aetheris ignes.
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              <s id="s.001270">Quippe etenim primum terrai corpora quaeque,
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              propterea quod erant gravia et perplexa, coibant
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              in medio atque imas capiebant omnia sedes;
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              quae quanto magis inter se perplexa coibant,
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              tam magis expressere ea quae mare sidera solem
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              lunamque efficerent et magni moenia mundi. </s>
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              omnia enim magis haec e levibus atque rutundis
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              seminibus multoque minoribus sunt elementis
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              quam tellus. </s>
              <s id="s.001272">ideo, per rara foramina, terrae
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              partibus erumpens primus se sustulit aether
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              ignifer et multos secum levis abstulit ignis,
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              non alia longe ratione ac saepe videmus,
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              aurea cum primum gemmantis rore per herbas
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              matutina rubent radiati lumina solis
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              exhalantque lacus nebulam fluviique perennes,
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              ipsaque ut interdum tellus fumare videtur;
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              omnia quae sursum cum conciliantur, in alto
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              corpore concreto subtexunt nubila caelum. </s>
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              sic igitur tum se levis ac diffusilis aether
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              corpore concreto circumdatus undique
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              flexit
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              et Iate diffusus in omnis undique partis
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              omnia sic avido complexu cetera saepsit.
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              hunc exordia sunt solis lunaeque secuta,
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