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

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              noenu potest. </s>
              <s id="s.000631">igitur parvissima corpora proquam
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              et levissima sunt, ita mobilitate fruuntur;
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              at contra quaecumque magis cum pondere magno
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              asperaque inveniuntur, eo stabilita magis sunt.</s>
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              <s id="s.000632">nunc igitur quoniam
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              est
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              animi natura reperta
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              mobilis egregie, perquam constare necessest
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              corporibus parvis et levibus atque rutundis. </s>
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              quae tibi cognita res in multis, o bone, rebus
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              utilis invenietur et opportuna cluebit.</s>
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              <s id="s.000634">haec quoque res etiam naturam dedicat eius,
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              quam tenui constet textura quamque loco se
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              contineat parvo, si possit conglomerari,
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              quod simul atque hominem leti secura quies est
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              indepta atque animi natura animaeque recessit,
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              nil ibi libatum de toto corpore cernas
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              ad speciem, nil ad pondus: mors omnia praestat
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              vitalem praeter sensum calidumque vaporem. </s>
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              ergo animam totam perparvis esse necessest
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              seminibus, nexam per venas viscera nervos;
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              quatenus, omnis ubi e toto iam corpore cessit,
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              extima membrorum circumcaesura tamen se
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              incolumem praestat nec defit ponderis hilum. </s>
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              quod genus est Bacchi cum flos evanuit aut cum
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              spiritus unguenti suavis diffugit in auras
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              aut aliquo cum iam sucus de corpore cessit;
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              nil oculis tamen esse minor res ipsa videtur
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              propterea neque detractum de pondere quicquam,
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              nimirum quia multa minutaque semina sucos
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              efficiunt et odorem in toto corpore rerum.</s>
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              <s id="s.000637">quare etiam atque etiam mentis naturam animaeque
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              scire licet perquam pauxillis esse creatam
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              seminibus, quoniam fugiens nil ponderis aufert. </s>
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              <s id="s.000639">Nec tamen haec simplex nobis natura putanda est.</s>
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              <s id="s.000640">tenvis enim quaedam moribundos deserit aura
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