Lucretius, De rerum natura: Libri Sex (Vol. I, Text), 1893
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              quippe ubi se multi per somnia saepe loquentes
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              aut morbo delirantes protraxe ferantur
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              et celata
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              mala
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              in medium et peccata dedisse.)
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              <s id="s.001424">Nunc quae causa deum per magnas numina gentis
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              pervulgarit et ararum compleverit urbis
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              suscipiendaque curarit sollemnia sacra,
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              quae nunc in magnis florent sacra rebu' locisque,
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              unde etiam nunc est mortalibus insitus horror
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              qui delubra deum nova toto suscitat orbi
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              terrarum et festis cogit celebrare diebus,
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              non ita difficilest rationem reddere verbis.</s>
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              <s id="s.001425">quippe etenim iam tum divom mortalia saecla
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              egregias animo facies vigilante videbant
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              et magis in somnis mirando corporis auctu.</s>
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              <s id="s.001426">his igitur sensum tribuebant propterea quod
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              membra movere videbantur vocesque superbas
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              mittere pro facie praeclara et viribus amplis.</s>
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              <s id="s.001427">aeternamque dabant vitam, quia semper eorum,
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              subpeditabatur facies et forma manebat,
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              et tamen omnino quod tantis viribus auctos
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              non temere ulla vi convinci posse putabant.</s>
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              <s id="s.001428">fortunisque ideo longe praestare putabant,
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              quod mortis timor haut quemquam vexaret eorum,
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              et simul in somnis quia multa et mira videbant
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              efficere et nullum capere ipsos inde laborem.</s>
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              <s id="s.001429">praeterea caeli rationes ordine certo
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              et varia annorum cernebant tempora verti
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              nec poterant quibus id fieret cognoscere causis.
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              ergo perfugium sibi habebant omnia divis
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              tradere et illorum nutu facere omnia flecti.</s>
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              <s id="s.001430">in caeloque deum sedes et templa locarunt,
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              per caelum volvi quia nox et luna videtur,
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              luna dies et nox et noctis signa severa
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