Lucretius, De rerum natura: Libri Sex, 1566

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              <s id="s.000099">Scilicet id falsa totum ratione receptum est:
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              nam quo squamigeri poterunt procedere tandem,
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              Ni spatium dederint latices ? </s>
              <s id="s.000100"> concedere porro
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              Quo poterunt undae, cum pisces ire nequibunt? </s>
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              Aut igitur motu privandum est corpora quaeque:
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              Aut esse admistum dicundum est rebus inane;
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              Unde initum primum capiat res quaeque movendi.</s>
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              Postremo duo de concursu corpora lata
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              Si cita dissiliant, nempe aer omne necesse est
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              Inter corpora quod fiat, possidat inane:
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              Is porro, quamvis circum celerantibus auris
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              Confluat; haud poterit tamen uno tempore totum
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              Complere spatium: nam primum quemque necesse est
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              Occupet ille locum, deinde omnia possideantur.</s>
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              Quod si forte aliquis, cum corpora dissiluere,
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              Tum putat id fieri, quia se condenseat aer,
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              Errat.</s>
              <s id="s.000104"> nam vacuum tum fit, quod non fuit ante;
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              Et repletur item, vacuum quod constitit ante.</s>
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              Nec tali ratione potest denserier aer;
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              Nec si iam posset, sine inani posset, opinor,
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              Se ipse in se trahere, & partis conducere in unum.</s>
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              <s id="s.000106">Quapropter, quamvis causando multa moreris,
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              Esse in rebus inane tamen fateare necesse est.</s>
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              Multaque praeterea tibi possum commemorando
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              Argumenta, fidem dictis conradere, nostris:
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              Verum animo satis haec vestigia parva sagaci,
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              Sunt, per quae possis cognoscere cetera tute.</s>
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              Namque canes ut montivagae persaepe ferai
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              Naribus inveniunt intectas fronde quietes
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              Cum semel institerunt vestigia certa viai:
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              Sic alid ex alio per te tute ipse videre
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              Talibus in rebus poteris, caecasque latebras
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