Lucretius, De rerum natura: Libri Sex, 1566
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              Vincere, & ingentis plagae sedare tumultus:
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              Inque suos quicquid rursus revocare meatus:
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              Et quasi iam leti dominantem in corpore motum
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              Discutere, ac paene amissos accendere sensus.</s>
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              Nam, quare potius leti iam limine ab ipso
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              Ad vitam possit conlecta mente reverti,
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              Quam, quo decursum prope iam siet, ire & abire ? </s>
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              <s id="s.000520">Praeterea quoniam dolor est, ubi materiai
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              Corpora vi quadam per viscera viva, per artus
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              Sollicitata suis trepidant in sedibus intus:
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              Inque locum quando remigrant, fit blanda voluptas:
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              Scire licet, nullo primordia posse dolore
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              Tentari, nullamque voluptatem capere ex se;
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              Quandoquidem non sunt ex illis principiorum
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              Corporibus, quorum motus novitate laborent:
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              Aut aliquem fructum capiant dulcedinis almae.</s>
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              Haud igitur debent esse ullo praedita sensu.</s>
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              <s id="s.000522">Denique, uti possint sentire animalia quaeque;
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              Principijs si iam est sensus tribuendus eorum:
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              Quid, genus humanum propritim de quibus
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              est
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              Scilicet & risu tremulo concussa cachinnant;
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              Et lacrimis spargunt rorantibus ora, genasque:
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              Multaque de rerum mistura dicere callent;
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              Et sibi proporro quae sint primordia quaerunt:
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              Quandoquidem totis mortalibus adsimulata
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              Ipsa quoque ex alijs debent constare elementis,
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              Inde alia ex alijs, nusquam consistere ut ausis.</s>
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              Quippe sequar, quodcumque loqui, ridereque dices,
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              Et sapere ex alijs, eadem haec facientibus ut sit.</s>
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              Quod si delira haec, furiosaque cernimus esse,
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              Et ridere potest non ex ridentibus auctus,
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              Et sapere, & doctis rationem reddere dictis
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