Lucretius
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De rerum natura: Libri Sex
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1566
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Ut nunc montibus e magnis decursus aquai
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Clare citat ad se sitientia saecla ferarum.</
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Denique noctivagi silvestria templa tenebant
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Nympharum, quibus e scibant humore fluenta
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Lubrica, proluvie larga lavere humida saxa;
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Humida saxa, super viridi stillantia musco;
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Et partim plano scatere, atque erumpere campo.</
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Nec dum res igni scibant tractare, neque uti
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Pellibus, & spoliis corpus vestire ferarum:
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Sed nemora, atque cavos montis, silvasque colebant,
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Et frutices inter condebant squalida membra,
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Verbera ventorum vitare, imbresque coacti.</
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Nec commune bonum poterant spectare, neque ullis
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Moribus inter se scibant, nec legibus uti.</
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Quod cuique obtulerat praedae fortuna, ferebat,
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Sponte sua, sibi quisque valere, & vivere doctus.</
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Et Venus in silvis iungebat corpora amantum.</
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Conciliabat enim vel mutua quamque cupido;
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Vel violenta viri vis, atque inpensa libido;
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Vel pretium glandes, atque arbuta, vel pira lecta.</
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Et manuum mira freti virtute, pedumque,
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Consectabantur silvestria saecla ferarum
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Missilibus saxis, & magno pondere clavae:
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Multaque vincebant, vitabant pauca latebris:
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Setigerisque pares subus sic silvestria membra
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Nuda dabant terrae nocturno tempore capti,
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Circum se foliis ac frondibus involventes:
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Nec plangore diem magno, solemque per agros
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Quaerebant pavidi, palantes noctis in umbris;
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Sed taciti respectabant, somnoque sepulti,
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Dum rosea face sol inferret lumina caelo:
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A parvis quod enim consuerant cernere semper
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