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

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              nympharum, quibus e scibant umori' fluenta
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              lubrica proluvie larga lavere umida saxa,
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              umida saxa, super viridi stillantia musco,
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              et partim plano scatere atque erumpere campo.</s>
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              <s id="s.001375">necdum res igni scibant tractare neque uti
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              pellibus et 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 imbrisque coacti.</s>
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              <s id="s.001376">nec commune bonum poterant spectare neque ullis
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              moribus inter se scibant nec legibus uti.</s>
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              <s id="s.001377">quod cuique obtulerat praedae fortuna, ferebat
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              sponte sua sibi quisque valere et vivere doctus.</s>
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              <s id="s.001378">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 arbita vel pira lecta.
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              <s id="s.001378a">et manuum mira freti virtute pedumque
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              consectabantur silvestria saecla ferarum
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              missilibus saxis et magno pondere clavae;
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              multaque vincebant, vitabant pauca latebris;
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              saetigerisque pares subus
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              sic
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              silvestria membra
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              nuda
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              da
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              bant terrae nocturno tempore capti,
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              circum se foliis ac frondibus involventes.</s>
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              <s id="s.001379">nec plangore diem magno solemque per agros
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              quaerebant pavidi palantes noctis in umbris,
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