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

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              perfacilest tamen haec reperire animoque videre
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              omnia quo pacto fiant quareve creentur,
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              cum bene cognoris elementis reddita quae sint. </s>
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              <s id="s.001614">Nunc age quae ratio terrai motibus extet
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              percipe. </s>
              <s id="s.001615">et in primis terram fac ut esse rearis
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              supter item ut supera ventosis undique plenam
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              speluncis multosque lacus multasque lucunas
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              in gremio gerere et rupes deruptaque saxa;
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              multaque sub tergo terrai flumina tecta
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              volvere vi fluctus summersaque saxa putandumst:
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              undique enim similem esse sui res postulat ipsa. </s>
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              his igitur rebus subiunctis suppositisque
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              terra superne tremit magnis concussa ruinis,
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              subter ubi ingentis speluncas subruit aetas;
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              quippe cadunt toti montes magnoque repente
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              concussu late disserpunt inde tremores. </s>
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              et merito, quoniam plaustri concussa tremescunt
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              tecta viam propter non magno pondere tota,
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              nec minus exultant, ut scrupus cumque viai
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              ferratos utrimque rotarum succutit orbes. </s>
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              fit quoque, ubi in magnas aquae vastasque lucunas
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              gleba vetustate e terra provolvitur ingens,
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              ut iactetur aquae fluctu quoque terra vacillans;
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