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

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              altaque cur plerumque petit loca plurimaque eius
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              montibus in summis vestigia cernimus ignis?</s>
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              <s id="s.001591">Quod superest, facilest ex his cognoscere rebus,
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              presteras Grai quos ab re nominitarunt,
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              in mare qua missi veniant ratione superne. </s>
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              nam fit ut interdum tamquam demissa columna
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              in mare de caelo descendat, quam freta circum
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              fervescunt graviter spirantibus incita flabris,
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              et quaecumque in eo tum sint deprensa tumultu
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              navigia in summum veniant vexata periclum. </s>
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              hoc fit ubi interdum non quit vis incita venti
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              rumpere quam coepit nubem, sed deprimit, ut sit
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              in mare de caelo tamquam demissa columna,
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              paulatim, quasi quid pugno bracchique superne
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              coniectu trudatur et extendatur in undas;
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              quam cum discidit, hinc prorumpitur in mare venti
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              vis et fervorem mirum concinnat in undis;
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              versabundus enim turbo descendit et illam
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              deducit pariter lento cum corpore nubem;
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              quam simul ac gravidam detrusit ad aequora ponti,
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              ille in aquam subito se inmittit et omne
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              excitat ingenti sonitu mare fervere cogens. </s>
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              fit quoque ut involvat venti se nubibus ipse
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              vertex conradens, ex aere, semina nubis
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              et quasi demissum caelo prestera imitetur.
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              <s id="s.001594a">hic ubi se in terras demisit dissoluitque,
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              turbinis inmanem vim provomit atque procellae. </s>
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              sed quia fit raro omnino montisque necessest
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              officere in terris, apparet crebrius idem
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              prospectu maris in magno caeloque patenti.
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              <s id="s.001596">Nubila concrescunt, ubi corpora multa volando
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