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

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              nec manet ulla sui similis res: omnia migrant,
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              omnia commutat natura et vertere cogit.</s>
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              <s id="s.001350">namque aliut putrescit et aevo debile languet,
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              porro aliut clarescit et
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              contemptibus exit. </s>
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              sic igitur mundi naturam totius aetas
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              mutat et ex alio terram status excipit alter :
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              quod potuit nequit, ut possit quod non tulit ante. </s>
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              <s id="s.001353">Multaque tum tellus etiam portenta creare
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              conatast mira facie membrisque coorta,
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              androgynum, interutrasque nec utrum, utrimque remotum,
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              orba pedum partim, manuum viduata vicissim,
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              muta sine ore etiam, sine voltu caeca reperta,
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              vinctaque membrorum per totum corpus adhaesu,
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              nec facere ut possent quicquam nec cedere quoquam
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              nec vitare malum nec sumere quod foret usus. </s>
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              cetera de genere hoc monstra ac portenta creabat,
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              nequiquam, quoniam natura absterruit auctum
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              nec potuere cupitum aetatis tangere florem
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              nec reperire cibum nec iungi per Veneris res. </s>
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              multa videmus enim rebus concurrere debere,
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              ut propagando possint procudere saecla;
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              pabula primum ut sint, genitalia deinde per artus
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              semina qua possint membris manare remissis;
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              feminaque ut maribus coniungi possit, habere
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              mutua qui mutent inter se gaudia uterque.
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              <s id="s.001356">Multaque tum interiisse animantum saecla necessest
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              nec potuisse propagando procudere prolem.</s>
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              <s id="s.001357">nam quaecumque vides vesci vitalibus auris,
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              aut dolus aut virtus aut denique mobilitas est
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