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

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              sunt et cum externis succumbunt omnia plagis,
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              quandoquidem grandi cibus aevo denique defit
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              nec tuditantia rem cessant extrinsecus ullam
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              corpora conficere et plagis infesta domare. </s>
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              sic igitur magni quoque circum moenia mundi
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              expugnata dabunt labem putris
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              que
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              ruinas.</s>
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              <s id="s.000575">iamque adeo fracta est aetas, effetaque tellus
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              vix animalia parva creat quae cuncta creavit
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              saecla deditque ferarum ingentia corpora partu.</s>
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              <s id="s.000576">haud, ut opinor, enim mortalia saecla superne
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              aurea de caelo demisit funis in arva
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              nec mare nec fluctus plangentis saxa crearunt,
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              sed genuit tellus eadem quae nunc alit ex se.</s>
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              <s id="s.000577">praeterea nitidas fruges vinetaque laeta
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              sponte sua primum mortalibus ipsa creavit,
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              ipsa dedit dulcis fetus et pabula laeta;
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              quae nunc vix nostro grandescunt aucta labore,
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              conterimusque boves et viris agricolarum,
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              conficimus ferrum vix arvis suppeditati:
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              usque adeo parcunt fetus augentque labore.</s>
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              <s id="s.000578">iamque caput quassans grandis suspirat arator
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              crebrius, incassum manuum cecidisse labores,
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              et cum tempora temporibus praesentia confert
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              praeteritis, laudat fortunas saepe parentis
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              et crepat, anticum genus ut pietate repletum
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              perfacile angustis tolerarit finibus aevom,
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              cum minor esset agri multo modus ante viritim.
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              tristis item vetulae vitis sator atque
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              victae
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