Lucretius, De rerum natura: Libri Sex (Vol. I, Text), 1893
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              <s id="s.000215">Linquitur hic quaedam latitandi copia tenvis,
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              id quod Anaxagoras sibi sumit, ut omnibus omnis
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              res putet inmixtas rebus latitare, sed illud
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              apparere unum cuius sint plurima mixta
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              et magis in promptu primaque in fronte locata.</s>
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              <s id="s.000216">quod tamen a vera longe ratione repulsumst. </s>
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              <s id="s.000217">conveniebat enim fruges quoque saepe, minaci
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              robore cum saxi franguntur, mittere signum
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              sanguinis aut aliquid, nostro quae corpore aluntur.</s>
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              <s id="s.000218">consimili ratione herbis quoque saepe decebat,
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              cum lapidi in lapidem terimus, manare cruorem;
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              et latices dulcis guttas similique sapore
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              mittere, lanigerae quali sunt ubere lactis,
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              scilicet et glebis terrarum saepe friatis
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              herbarum genera et fruges frondesque videri
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              dispertita in
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              terram latitare minute,
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              postremo in lignis cinerem fumumque videri,
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              cum praefracta forent, ignisque latere minutos.</s>
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              <s id="s.000219">quorum nil fieri quoniam manifesta docet
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              res
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              ,
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              scire licet non esse in rebus res ita mixtas,
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              verum semina multimodis inmixta latere
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              multarum rerum in rebus communia debent.
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              <s id="s.000220">"At saepe in magnis fit montibus" inquis "ut altis
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              arboribus vicina cacumina summa terantur
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              inter se, validis facere id cogentibus austris,
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              donec flammai fulserunt flore coorto". </s>
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              <s id="s.000221">scilicet et non est lignis tamen insitus ignis,
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              verum semina sunt ardoris multa, terendo
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              quae cum confluxere, creant incendia silvis.</s>
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