Lucretius, De rerum natura: Libri Sex (Vol. I, Text), 1893
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              nunc id quod superest de motibus expediemus.]
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              <s id="s.000309">Nunc locus est, ut opinor, in his illud quoque rebus
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              confirmare tibi, nullam rem posse sua vi
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              corpoream sursum ferri sursumque meare;
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              ne tibi dent in eo flammarum corpora fraudem.</s>
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              <s id="s.000310">sursus enim versus gignuntur et augmina sumunt
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              et sursurn nitidae fruges arbustaque crescunt,
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              pondera, quantum in se est, cum deorsum cuncta ferantur.</s>
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              <s id="s.000311">nec cum subsiliunt ignes ad tecta domorum
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              et celeri flamma degustant tigna trabesque,
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              sponte sua facere id sine vi subigente putandum est.</s>
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              <s id="s.000312">quod genus e nostro quom missus corpore sanguis
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              emicat exultans alte spargitque cruorem. </s>
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              nonne vides etiam quanta vi tigna trabesque
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              respuat umor aquae ?</s>
              <s id="s.000314"> nam quo magis ursimus alte
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              derecta et rnagna vi multi pressimus aegre,
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              tam cupide sursum revomit magis atque remittit,
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              plus ut parte foras emergant exiliantque. </s>
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              nec tamen haec, quantum est in se, dubitamus, opinor,
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              quin vacuum per inane deorsum cuncta ferantur.</s>
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              <s id="s.000316">sic igitur debent flammae quoque posse per auras
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              aeris expressae sursum succedere, quamquam
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              pondera, quantum in sest, deorsum
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              de
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              ducere pugnent,
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              nocturnasque faces caeli sublime volantis
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              nonne vides longos flammarum ducere tractus
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              in quascumque dedit partis natura meatum ?</s>
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              non cadere in terram stellas et sidera cernis?</s>
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              sol etiam
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              caeli
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              de vertice dissipat omnis
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