Lucretius, De rerum natura: Libri Sex (Vol. I, Text), 1893
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              <s id="s.001606a">consimili ratione ex omnibus amnibus umor
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              tollitur in nubis. </s>
              <s id="s.001607">quo cum bene semina aquarum
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              multa modis multis convenere undique adaucta,
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              confertae nubes
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              umorem
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              mittere certant
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              dupliciter; nam vis venti contrudit et ipsa
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              copia nimborum turba maiore coacta
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              urget, de supero premit ac facit effluere imbris. </s>
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              praeterea cum rarescunt quoque nubila ventis
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              aut dissolvuntur, solis super icta calore,
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              mittunt umorem pluvium stillantque, quasi igni
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              cera super calido tabescens multa liquescat. </s>
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              sed vemens imber fit, ubi vementer utraque
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              nubila vi cumulata premuntur et impete venti. </s>
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              atque tenere diu pluviae longumque morari
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              consuerunt, ubi multa cientur semina aquarum
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              atque aliis aliae nubes nimbique rigantes
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              insuper atque omni vulgo de parte feruntur,
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              terraque cum fumans umorem tota redhalat. </s>
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              hic ubi sol radiis tempestatem inter opacam
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              adversa fulsit nimborum aspargine contra,
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              tum color in nigris existit nubibus arqui.
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              <s id="s.001612">Cetera quae sorsum crescunt sorsumque creantur,
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              et quae concrescunt in nubibus, omnia, prorsum
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              omnia, nix venti grando gelidaeque pruinae
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              et vis magna geli, magnum duramen aquarum,
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              et mora quae fluvios passim refrenat euntis,
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