Lucretius, De rerum natura: Libri Sex, 1566

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              <s id="s.000571">T. LUCRETI CARI</s>
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              <s id="s.000572">DE RERUM NATURA</s>
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              <s id="s.000573">LIBER TERTIUS</s>
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              E tenebris tantis tam clarum extollere lumen
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              Qui primus potuisti, inlustrans commoda vitae,
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              Te sequor, o Graiae gentis decus, inque tuis nunc
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              Fixa pedum pono pressis vestigia signis,
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              Non ita certandi cupidus, quam propter amorem ,
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              Quod te imitari aveo.</s>
              <s id="s.000575"> quid enim contendat hirundo
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              Cygnis? </s>
              <s id="s.000576"> aut quidnam tremulis facere artibus hedi
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              Consimile in cursu possint, ac fortis equi vis? </s>
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              Tu pater, & rerum inventor; tu patria nobis
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              Suppeditas praecepta; tuisque ex, inclute, chartis,
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              Floriferis ut apes in saltibus omnia libant,
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              Omnia nos itidem depascimur aurea dicta;
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              Aurea, perpetua semper dignissima vita.</s>
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              Nam simul ac ratio tua coepit vociferari,
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              Naturam rerum haud divina mente coortam:
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              Diffugiunt animi terrores: moenia mundi
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              Discedunt; totum video per inane geri res:
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              Apparet divum numen, sedesque quietae;
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              Quas neque concutiunt venti, nec nubila nimbis
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              Aspergunt, neque nix acri concreta pruina
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              Cana cadens violat; semperque Innubilus aether
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              Integit, & large diffuso lumine ridet.</s>
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              Omnia suppeditat porro natura, neque ulla
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              Res animi pacem delibat tempore in ullo.</s>
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