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

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              incidit in calidam maturo fulmine nubem ;
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              quam cum perscidit, extemplo cadit igneus ille
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              vertex quem patrio vocitamus nomine fulmen.</s>
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              <s id="s.001552">hoc fit idem in partis alias, quocumque tulit vis. </s>
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              fit quoque ut interdum venti vis missa sine igni
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              igniscat tamen in spatio longoque meatu,
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              dum venit, amittens in cursu corpora quaedam
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              grandia quae nequeunt pariter penetrare per auras;
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              atque alia ex ipso conradens aere portat
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              non alia longe ratione ac plumbea saepe
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              fervida fit glans in cursu, cum multa rigoris
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              corpora, dimittens ignem concepit in auris. </s>
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              fit quoque ut ipsius plagae vis excitet ignem,
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              frigida eum venti pepulit vis missa sine igni,
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              nimirum quia, eum vementi perculit ictu,
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              confluere ex ipso possunt elementa vaporis
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              et simul ex illa quae tum res excipit ictum;
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              ut, lapidem ferro cum caedimus, evolat ignis,
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              nec, quod frigida vis ferrist, hoc setius illi
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              semina concurrunt calidi fulgoris ad ictum.</s>
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              <s id="s.001555">sic igitur quoque res accendi fulmine debet,
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              opportuna fuit si forte et idonea flammis. </s>
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              nec temere omnino plane vis frigida venti
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              esse potest, ea quae tanta vi missa supernest,
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              quin, prius in cursu si non accenditur igni,
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              at tepefacta tamen veniat commixta calore.
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              <s id="s.001557">Mobilitas autem fit fulminis et gravis ictus,
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              et celeri forine percu
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              rru
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              nt fulmina lapsu,
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              nubibus ipsa quod omnino prius incita se vis
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