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

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              fumida cum caeli scintillare omnia templa
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              cernentes pavida complebant pectora cura,
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              quid moliretur rerum natura novarum.
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              <s id="s.001635">Hisce tibi in rebus latest alteque videndum
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              et longe cunctas in partis dispiciendum,
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              ut reminiscaris summam rerum esse profundam
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              et videas caelum summai totius unum
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              quam sit parvula pars et quam multesima constet,
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              nec tota pars, homo terrai quota totius unus.</s>
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              <s id="s.001636">quod bene propositum si plane contueare
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              ac videas plane, mirari multa relinquas.</s>
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              <s id="s.001637">numquis enim nostrum miratur siquis in artus
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              accepit calido febrim fervore coortam
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              aut alium quemvis morbi per membra dolorem?</s>
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              opturgescit enim subito pes, arripit acer
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              saepe dolor dentes, oculos invadit in ipsos,
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              existit sacer ignis et urit corpore serpens
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              quamcumque arripuit partim, repitque per artus,
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              nimirum quia sunt multarum semina rerum,
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              et satis haec tellus nobis caelumque mali fert,
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              unde queat vis immensi procrescere morbi.</s>
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              <s id="s.001639">sic igitur toti caelo terraeque putandumst
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              ex infinito satis omnia suppeditare,
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              unde repente queat tellus concussa moveri
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              perque mare ac terras rapidus percurrere turbo,
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              ignis abundare Aetnaeus, flammescere caelum;
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              id quoque enim fit et ardescunt caelestia templa,
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              et tempestates pluviae graviore coortu
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              sunt, ubi forte ita se tetulerunt semina aquarum.</s>
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              <s id="s.001640">'at nimis est ingens incendi turbidus ardor.'
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              <s id="s.001641a">scilicet et fluvius quivis est maximus ei
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              qui non ante aliquem maiorem vidit, et ingens
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              arbor homoque videtur, et omnia de genere omni
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