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

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              ancipi
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              ti
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              quoniam mucroni utrimque notantur,
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              hinc flammis illinc rigidis infesta pruinis.
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              <s id="s.000385">Quod quoniam docui, pergam conectere rem quae
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              ex hoc apta fidem ducat, primordia rerum,
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              inter se simili quae sunt perfecta figura,
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              infinita cluere. </s>
              <s id="s.000386">etenim distantia cum sit
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              formarum finita, necesse est quae similes sint
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              esse infinitas aut summam materiai
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              finitam constare, id quod non esse probavi
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              versibus ostendens corpuscula materiai
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              ex infinito summam rerum usque tenere,
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              undique protelo plagarum continuato.</s>
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              <s id="s.000387">nam quod rara vides magis esse animalia quaedam
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              fecundamque minus naturam cernis in illis,
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              at regione locoque alio terrisque remotis
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              multa licet genere esse in eo numerumque repleri;
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              sicut quadripedum cum primis esse videmus
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              in genere anguimanus elephantos, India quorum
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              milibus e multis vallo munitur eburno,
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              ut penitus nequeat penetrari: tanta ferarum
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              vis est, quarum nos perpauca exempla videmus. </s>
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              sed tamen id quoque uti concedam, quamlubet esto
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              unica res quaedam nativo corpore sola,
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