Lucretius, De rerum natura: Libri Sex (Vol. I, Text), 1893
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              <s id="s.000579">T. </s>
              <s id="s.000580">LUCRETI CARI</s>
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              <s id="s.000581">DE RERUM NATURA</s>
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              <s id="s.000582">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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              ficta pedum pono pressis vestigia signis,
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              non ita certandi cupidus quam propter amorem
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              quod te imitari aveo; quid enim contendat hirundo
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              cycnis, aut quidnam tremulis facere artubus haedi
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              consimile in cursu possint et fortis equi vis?</s>
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              tu, pater, es 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, divina mente coorta,
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              diffugiunt animi terrores, moenia mundi
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              discedunt, totum video per inane geri res. </s>
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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 semper
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              que
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              innubilus aether
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