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

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              rarescit quia terra calore et semi
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              na
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              siquae
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              forte vaporis habet, propere dimittit in auras. </s>
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              quo magis est igitur tellus effeta calore,
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              fit quoque frigidior qui in terrast abditus umor. </s>
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              frigore cum premitur porro omnis terra coitque
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              et quasi concrescit, fit scilicet ut coeundo
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              exprimat in puteos siquem gerit ipsa calorem.
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              <s id="s.001685">Esse apud Hammonis fanum fons luce diurna
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              frigidus et calidus nocturno tempore fertur.</s>
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              <s id="s.001686">hunc homines fontem nimis admirantur et acri
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              sole putant supter terras fervescere raptim,
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              nox ubi terribili terras caligine texit.</s>
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              <s id="s.001687">quod nimis a verast longe ratione remotum.</s>
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              <s id="s.001688">quippe ubi sol nudum contractans corpus aquai
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              non quierit calidum supera de reddere parte,
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              cum superum lumen tanto fervore fruatur,
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              qui queat hic supter tam crasso corpore terram
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              percoquere umorem et calido satiare vapore?</s>
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              praesertim cum vix possit per saepta domorum
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              insinuare suum radiis ardentibus aestum.
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              <s id="s.001689a">quae ratiost igitur?</s>
              <s id="s.001690"> nimirum terra magis quod
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              rara tepet circum fontem quam cetera tellus
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              multaque sunt ignis prope semina corpus aquai. </s>
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              hoc ubi roriferis terram nox obruit umbris,
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              extemplo penitus frigescit terra coitque.
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              <s id="s.001691a">hac ratione fit ut, tamquam compressa manu sit,
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              exprimat in fontem quae semina cumque habet ignis,
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              quae calidum faciunt aquae tactum atque saporem.</s>
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              <s id="s.001692">inde ubi sol radiis terram dimovit obortus
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