Lucretius, De rerum natura: Libri Sex (Vol. I, Text), 1893
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              <s id="s.001322">Luna potest solis radiis percussa nitere
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              inque dies magis
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              lumen convertere nobis
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              ad speciem, quantum solis secedit ab orbi,
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              donique eum contra pleno bene lumine fulsit
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              atque oriens obitus eius super edita vidit;
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              inde minutatim retro quasi condere lumen. </s>
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              <s id="s.001322a">debet item, quanto propius iam solis ad ignem
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              labitur ex alia signorum parte per orbem;
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              ut faciunt, lunam qui fingunt esse pilai
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              consimilem cursusque viam sub sole tenere.</s>
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              <s id="s.001323">est etiam quare proprio cum lumine possit
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              volvier et varias splendoris reddere formas.</s>
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              <s id="s.001324">corpus enim licet esse aliud quod fertur et una
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              labitur omnimodis occursans officiensque
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              nec potis est cerni, quia cassum lumine fertur.</s>
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              <s id="s.001325">versarique potest, globus ut, si forte, pilai
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              dimidia ex parti candenti lumine tinctus,
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              versandoque globum variantis edere formas,
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              donique eam partem, quaecumque est ignibus aucta,
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              ad speciem vertit nobis oculosque patentis ;
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              inde minutatim retro contorquet et aufert
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              luciferam partem glomeraminis atque pilai;
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              ut Babylonica Chaldaeum doctrina refutans
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              astrologorum artem contra convincere tendit,
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              proinde quasi id fieri nequeat quod pugnat uterque
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              aut minus hoc illo sit cur amplectier ausis. </s>
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              <s id="s.001325a">denique cur nequeat semper nova luna creari
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              ordine formarum certo certisque figuris
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              inque dies privos aborisci quaeque creata
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