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

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              intempestivis ex imbribus umida tellus;
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              praeterea cunctas itidem res vertere sese.</s>
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              <s id="s.000507">vertunt se fluvii frondes et pabula laeta
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              in pecudes, vertunt pecudes in corpora nostra
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              naturam, et nostro de corpore saepe ferarum
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              augescunt vires et corpora pennipotentum.</s>
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              <s id="s.000508">ergo omnes natura cibos in corpora viva
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              vertit et hinc sensus animantum procreat omnes,
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              non alia longe ratione adque arida ligna
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              explicat in flammas et
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              in
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              ignis omnia versat.</s>
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              <s id="s.000509">iamne vides igitur magni primordia rerum
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              referre in quali sint ordine quaeque locata
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              et commixta quibus dent motus accipiantque?</s>
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              <s id="s.000511">Tum porro quid id est, animum quod percutit, ipsum
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              quod movet et varios sensus expromere cogit,
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              ex insensilibus ne credas sensile gigni ?</s>
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              nimirum lapides et ligna et terra quod una
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              mixta tamen nequeunt vitalem reddere sensum. </s>
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              illud in his igitur rebus meminisse decebit,
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              non ex omnibus omnino, quaecumque ereant res,
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              sensile et extemplo me gigni dicere sensus,
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              sed magni referre ea primum quantula constent,
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              sensile quae faciunt, et qua sint praedita forma,
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              motibus ordinibus posituris denique quae sint. </s>
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              quarum nil rerum in lignis glaebisque videmus;
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              et tamen haec, cum sunt quasi putrefacta per imbres,
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              vermiculos pariunt, quia corpora materiai
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              antiquis ex ordinibus permota nova re
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              conciliantur ita ut debent animalia gigni. </s>
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              deinde ex sensilibus qui sensile posse creari
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              constituunt, porro ex aliis sentire sueti
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