Lucretius
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De rerum natura: Libri Sex
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1566
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Ut muliebribus id manibus concedere vellent;
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Atque ipsi potius durum sufferre laborem:
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Atque opere in duro durarent membra, manusque.</
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Ipsa fuit rerum primum natura creatrix.</
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arboribus quoniam baccae, glandesque caducae
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Tempestiva dabant pullorum examina supter:
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Inde etiam libitum est stirpis committere ramis;
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Et nova defodere in terram virgulta per agros.</
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Inde aliam, atque aliam culturam dulcis agelli
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Tentabant, fructusque feros mansuescere terram
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Cernebant indulgendo, blandeque colendo.</
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Inque dies magis in montem succedere silvas
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Cogebant, infraque locum concedere cultis:
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Prata, lacus, rivos, segetes, vinetaque laeta
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Collibus, & campis ut haberent: atque olearum
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Caerula distinguens inter plaga currere posset
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Per tumulos, & convallis, camposque profusa:
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Ut nunc esse vides vario distincta lepore
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Omnia, quae pomis intersita dulcibus ornant;
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Arbustisque tenent felicibus obsita circum.</
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Ante fuit multo, quam levia carmina cantu
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Concelebrare homines possent, aurisque iuvare.</
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Et zephyri cava per calamorum sibila primum
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Agrestis docuere cavas inflare cicutas.</
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Inde minutatim dulcis didicere querellas;
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Tibia quas fundit digitis pulsata canentum,
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Avia per nemora, ac silvas, saltusque reperta,
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Per loca pastorum deserta, atque otia dia.</
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Sic unum quidquid paullatim protrahit aetas
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In medium, ratioque in luminis eruit oras.</
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