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

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              quaeque in se cohibet, palantia sidera passim,
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              lunamque et solis praeclara luce nitorem;
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              omnia quae nunc si primum. </s>
              <s id="s.000549">mortalibus essent,
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              ex inproviso si nunc obiecta repente,
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              quid magis his rebus poterat mirabile dici
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              aut minus ante quod auderent fore redere gentes ?</s>
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              nil, ut opinor: ita haec species miranda fuisset. </s>
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              quam tibi iam nemo, fessus satiate videndi,
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              suspicere in caeli dignatur lucida templa!
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              desine quapropter novitate exterritus ipsa
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              expuere ex animo rationem, sed magis acri
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              iudicio perpende et, si tibi vera videntur,
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              dede manus, aut, si falsum est, accingere contra. </s>
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              quaerit enim rationem animus, cum summa loci sit
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              infinita foris haec extra moenia mundi,
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              quid sit ibi porro quo prospicere usque velit mens
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              atque animi iactus liber quo pervolet ipse.
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              <s id="s.000553">Principio nobis in cunctas undique partis
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              et latere ex utroque
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              supra
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              supterque per omne
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              nulla est finis; uti docui, res ipsaque per se
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              vociferatur, et elucet natura profundi.</s>
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              <s id="s.000554">nullo iam pacto veri simile esse putandumst,
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              undique eum vorsum spatium vacet infinitum
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              seminaque innumero numero summaque profunda
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              multimodis volitent aeterno percita motu,
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              hunc unum terrarum orbem caelumque creatum,
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              nil agere illa foris tot corpora materiai;
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              eum praesertim hic sit natura factus, ut ipsa
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              sponte sua forte offensando semina rerum,
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              multimodis temere incassum frustraque coacta,
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