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

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              exeibant silvis. </s>
              <s id="s.001798">languebant pleraque morbo
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              et moriebantur. </s>
              <s id="s.001799">cum primis fida canum vis
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              strata viis animam ponebat in omnibus aegre;
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              extorquebat enim vitam vis morbida membris.</s>
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              <s id="s.001800">[incomitata rapi certabant funera vasta.]
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              nec ratio remedi communis certa dabatur;
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              nam quod ali dederat vitalis aeris auras
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              volvere in ore licere et caeli templa tueri,
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              hoc aliis erat exitio letumque parabat.</s>
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              <s id="s.001801">illud in his rebus miserandum magnopere unum
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              aerumnabile erat, quod ubi se quisque videbat
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              implicitum morbo, morti damnatus ut esset,
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              deficiens animo maesto cum corde iacebat,
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              funera respectans animam amittebat ibidem.</s>
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              <s id="s.001802">quippe etenim nullo cessabant tempore apisci
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              ex aliis alios avidi contagia morbi,
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              lanigeras tamquam pecudes et bucera saecla.</s>
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              <s id="s.001803">idque vel in primis cumulabat funere funus.</s>
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              <s id="s.001804">nam quicumque suos fugitabant visere ad aegros,
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              vitai nimium cupidos mortisque timentis
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              poenibat paulo post turpi morte malaque,
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              desertos, opis expertis, incuria mactans.</s>
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              <s id="s.001805">qui fuerant autem praesto, contagibus ibant
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              atque labore, pudor quem tum cogebat obire
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              blandaque lassorum vox mixta voce querellae.
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              optimus hoc leti genus ergo quisque subibat.</s>
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