Lucretius, De rerum natura: Libri Sex, 1566

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              Aut ita diffugient, vt tempestate coorta
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              Fulmina diffugere, atque imbris, ventosque videmus.</s>
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              <s id="s.000195">Denique quattuor ex rebus si cuncta creantur,
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              Atque in eas rursum res omnia dissoluuntur:
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              Qui magis illa queunt rerum primordia dici,
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              Quam contra res illorum, retroque putari? </s>
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              Alternis gignuntur enim, mutantque colorem,
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              Et totam inter se naturam tempore ab omni.</s>
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              Sin ita forte putas, ignis, terraeque coire
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              Corpus, & aerias auras, roremque liquorum,
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              Nihil in concilio naturam ut mutet eorum:
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              Nulla tibi ex illis poterit res esse creata;
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              Non animans; non exanimo cum corpore, ut arbos.</s>
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              Quippe suam quidque in coetu variantis acervi
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              Naturam ostendet: mistusque videbitur aer
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              Cum terra simul, atque ardor cum rore manere.</s>
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              At primordia gignundis in rebus oportet
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              Naturam clamdestinam, caecamque adhibere:
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              Emineat ne quid, quod contra pugnet, & obstet,
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              Quo minus esse queat proprie quod.</s>
              <s id="s.000200">cumque creatur.</s>
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              <s id="s.000201">Quin etiam repetunt a caelo, atque ignibus eius:
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              Et primum faciunt ignem se vertere in auras
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              Aeris; hinc imbrem gigni; terramque creari
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              Ex imbri; retroque a terra cuncta reverti;
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              Humorem primum, post aera, deinde calorem:
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              Nec cessare haec inter se mutare, meare
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              De caelo ad terram, de terra ad sidera mundi:
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              Quod facere haud ullo debent primordia pacto.</s>
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              Immutabile enim quiddam superare necesse est;
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              Ne res ad nihilum redigantur funditus omnes.</s>
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              Nam quodcumque suis mutatum finibus exit,
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              Continuo hoc mors est illius, quod fuit ante.</s>
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