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

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              adsimili ratione alias ut postulet ordo,
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              si tu forte voles etiam variare figuras.</s>
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              <s id="s.000378">ergo formarum novitatem corporis augmen
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              subsequitur. </s>
              <s id="s.000379">quare non est ut credere possis
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              esse infinitis distantia semina formis,
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              ne quaedam cogas inmani maximitate
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              esse supra quod iam docui non posse probari.</s>
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              <s id="s.000380">iam tibi barbaricae vestes Meliboeaque fulgens
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              purpura Thessalico concharum tacta colore
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              ...
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              aurea pavonum ridenti imbuta lepore
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              saecla, novo rerum superata colore iacerent
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              et contemptus odor smyrnae mellisque sapores,
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              et cycnea mele Phoebeaque daedala chordis
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              carmina consimili ratione oppressa silerent;
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              namque aliis aliud praestantius exoreretur.</s>
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              <s id="s.000381">cedere item retro possent in deteriores
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              omnia sic partis, ut diximus in melioris;
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              namque aliis aliud retro quoque taetrius esset
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              naribus auribus atque oculis orisque sapori.</s>
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              <s id="s.000382">quae quoniam non sunt,
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              sed
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              rebus reddita certa
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              finis utrimque tenet summam, fateare necessest
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              materiem quoque finitis differre figuris.</s>
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              <s id="s.000383">denique ab ignibus ad gelidas iter usque pruinas
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              finitumst retroque pari ratione remensumst ;
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              omnis enim calor ac frigus mediique tepores
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              interutrasque iacent explentes ordine summam.</s>
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              <s id="s.000384">ergo finita distant ratione creata,
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