Lucretius, De rerum natura: Libri Sex (Vol. I, Text), 1893
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              stridit, ubi in gelidum propere demersimus imbrem. </s>
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              aridior porro si nubes accipit ignem,
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              uritur ingenti sonitu succensa repente;
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              lauricomos ut si per montis flamma vagetur
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              turbine ventorum comburens impete magno;
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              nec res ulla magis quam Phoebi Delphica laurus
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              terribili sonitu flamma crepitante crematur. </s>
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              denique saepe geli multus fragor atque ruina
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              grandinis in magnis sonitum dat nubibus alte. </s>
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              ventus enim cum confercit, franguntur, in artum,
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              concreti montes nimborum et grandine mixti.
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              <s id="s.001518">Fulgit item, nubes ignis cum semina multa
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              excussere suo concursu; ceu lapidem si
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              percutiat lapis aut ferrum; nam tum quoque lumen
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              exilit et claras scintillas dissipat ignis. </s>
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              sed tonitrum fit uti post auribus accipiamus,
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              fulgere quam cernant oculi, quia semper ad auris
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              tardius adveniunt quam visum quae moveant res. </s>
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              id licet hine etiam cognoscere : caedere si quem
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              ancipiti videas ferro procul arboris auctum,
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              ante fit ut cernas ictum quam plaga per auris
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              det sonitum; sic fulgorem quoque cernimus ante
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              quam tonitrum accipimus, pariter qui mittitur igni
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              e simili causa, concursu natus eodem.
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              <s id="s.001521">Hoc etiam pacto volucri loca lumine tingunt
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              nubes et tremulo tempestas impete fulgit. </s>
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              ventus ubi invasit nubem et versatus ibidem
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              fecit ut ante cavam,docui spissescere nubem,
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              mobilitate sua fervescit; ut omnia motu
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              percalefacta vides ardescere, plumbea vero
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              glans etiam longo cursu volvenda liquescit.</s>
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