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

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              et cur terra queat lunam spoliare vicissim
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              lumine et 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 supra 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 per exit?</s>
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              <s id="s.001336">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 et causa cieret,
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              quove modo
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              possent
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              offecto lumine obire
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              et neque opinantis tenebris obducere terras,
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              cum quasi conivent et aperto lumine rursum
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              omnia convisunt clara loca candida luce,
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              nunc redeo ad mundi novitatem et mollia terrae
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              arva, novo fetu quid primum in luminis oras
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              tollere et incertis crerint committere ventis.
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              <s id="s.001337">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,
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              arboribusque datumst variis exinde per auras
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              crescendi magnum inmissis certamen habenis. </s>
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              ut pluma atque pili primum saetaeque creantur
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              quadripedum membris et corpore pennipotentum,
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              sic nova tum tellus herbas virgultaque primum
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              sustulit, inde loci mortalia saecla creavit
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              multa modis multis varia ratione coorta. </s>
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              nam neque de caelo cecidisse animalia possunt
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              nec terrestria de salsis exisse lacunis. </s>
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              linquitur ut merito maternum nomen adepta
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              terra sit, e terra quoniam sunt cuncta creata. </s>
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              multaque nunc etiam existunt animalia terris
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