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

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              conexae neque consensus contagia fient.
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              <s id="s.000763">Denique cur acris violentia triste leonum
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              seminium sequitur, volpes dolus, et fuga cervos,
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              A PATRIBUS DATUR ET A PATRIUS PAVOR INCITAT ARTUS
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              et iam cetera de genere hoc cur omnia membris
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              ex ineunte aevo generascunt ingenioque,
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              si non, certa suo quia semine seminioque
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              vis animi pariter crescit cum corpore toto?</s>
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              quod si inmortalis foret et mutare soleret
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              corpora, permixtis animantes moribus essent,
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              effugeret canis Hyrcano de semine saepe
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              cornigeri incursum cervi tremeretque per auras
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              aeris accipiter fugiens veniente columba,
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              desiperent homines, saperent fera saecla ferarum.</s>
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              <s id="s.000765">illud enim falsa fertur ratione, quod aiunt
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              inmortalem animam mutato corpore flecti. </s>
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              quod mutatur enim dissolvitur, interit ergo;
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              traiciuntur enim partes atque ordine migrant;
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              quare dissolui quoque debent posse per artus,
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              denique ut intereant una cum corpore cunctae. </s>
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              sin animas hominum dicent in corpora semper
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              ire humana, tamen quaeram cur e sapienti
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              stulta queat fieri, nec prudens sit puer ullus
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              nec tam doctus equae pullus quam fortis equi vis. </s>
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              Scilicet in tenero tenerascere corpore mentem
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              confugient. </s>
              <s id="s.000769">quod si iam fit, fateare necessest
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              mortalem esse animam, quoniam mutata per artus
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              tanto opere amittit vitam sensumque priorem. </s>
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              quove modo poterit pariter cum corpore quoque
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              confirmata cupitum aetatis tangere florem
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