Lucretius, De rerum natura: Libri Sex, 1566

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              Nam cur luna queat terram secludere solis
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              Lumine, & a terris altum caput obstruere ey,
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              Obiciens caecum radiis ardentibus orbem;
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              Tempore eodem aliud facere id non posse putetur
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              Corpus, quod cassum labatur lumine semper? </s>
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              Solque suos etiam dimittere languidus ignis
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              Tempore cur certo nequeat, recreareque lumen,
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              Cum loca praeteriit flammis infesta per auras,
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              Quae faciunt ignis interstingui, atque perire? </s>
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              Et cur terra queat lunam spoliare vicissim
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              Lumine, & oppressum solem super ipsa tenere,
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              Menstrua dum rigidas coni perlabitur umbras;
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              Tempore eodem aliut nequeat succurrere lunae
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              Corpus; vel supera solis perlabier orbem,
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              Quod radios interrumpat, lumenque profusum ? </s>
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              Et tamen ipsa suo si fulget luna nitore,
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              Cur nequeat certa mundi languescere parte;
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              Dum loca luminibus propriis inimica peragrat? </s>
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              <s id="s.001436">Quod superest, quoniam magni per caerula mundi
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              Qua fieri quicquid posset ratione, resolvi:
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              Solis uti varios cursus; lunaeque meatus
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              Noscere possemus; quae vis, & causa cieret,
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              Quove modo possent offecto Lumine obire,
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              Et neque opinantis tenebris obducere terras,
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              Cum quasi connivent, & aperto lumine rursum
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              Omnia convisunt clara loca candida luce:
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              Nunc redeo ad mundi novitatem, & mollia terrae
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              Arva, novo fetu quid primum in luminis oras
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              Tollere, & incertis tentavit credere ventis.</s>
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              <s id="s.001437">Principio genus herbarum, viridemque nitorem
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              Terra dedit circum collis, camposque per omnis,
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              Florida fulserunt viridanti prata colore.</s>
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