Lucretius
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De rerum natura: Libri Sex
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1566
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Tecta superne timent, metuunt inferne, cavernas
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Terrai ne dissoluat natura repente;
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Neu distracta suum late dispandat hiatum:
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Idque suis confusa velit complere ruinis.</
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Proinde licet quamvis caelum, terramque reantur
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Incorrupta fore aeternae mandata saluti:
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Attamen interdum praesens vis ipsa pericli
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Subdidat hunc stimulum quadam de parte timoris,
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Ne pedibus raptim tellus subtracta feratur
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In barathrum, rerumque sequatur prodita summa
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Funditus, & fiat mundi confusa ruina.</
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Nunc ratio reddenda, augmen cur nesciat aequor.</
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Naturam, quo sit tantus decursus aquarum:
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Omnia quo veniant ex omni flumina parte.</
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Adde vagos imbris, tempestatesque volantes:
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Omnia quae maria, ac terras sparguntque, rigantque:
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Adde suos fontes; tamen ad maris omnia summam
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Guttai vix instar erunt unius ad augmen:
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Quo minus est mirum, mare non augescere magnum.</
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Praeterea magnam sol partem detrahit aestu:
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Quippe videmus enim vestis umore madentis
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Exsiccare suis radijs ardentibus solem.</
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At pelagi multa, & late substrata videmus.</
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Proinde licet quamvis ex uno quoque loco sol
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Humoris parvam delibet ab aequore partem;
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Largiter in tanto spatio tamen auferet undis.</
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Tum porro venti magnam quoque tollere partem
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Humoris possunt verrentes aequora ponti:
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Una nocte vias quoniam persaepe videmus
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Siccari, mollisque luti concrescere crustas.</
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Praeterea docui multum, quoque tollere nubes
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