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

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              qui quoniam quodam gignuntur luminis ictu,
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              scire licet, sine eo fieri non posse putandum est. </s>
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              et quoniam plagae quoddam genus excipit in se
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              pupula, eum sentire colorem dicitur album,
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              atque aliud porro, nigrum cum et cetera sentit,
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              nec refert ea quae tangas quo forte colore
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              praedita sint, verum quali magis apta figura,
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              scire licet nil principiis opus esse colores,
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              sed variis formis variantes edere tactus.
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              <s id="s.000498">Praeterea quoniam non certis certa figuris
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              est natura coloris et omnia principiorum
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              formamenta queunt in quovis esse nitore,
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              cur ea quae constant ex illis non pariter sunt
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              omne genus perfusa coloribus in genere omni?</s>
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              conveniebat enim corvos quoque saepe volantis
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              ex albis album pinnis iactare colorem,
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              et nigros fieri nigro de semine cycnos
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              aut alio quovis uno varioque colore.
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              <s id="s.000500">Quin etiam quanto in partes res quaeque minutas
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              distrahitur magis, hoc magis est ut cernere possis
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              evanescere paulatim stinguique colorem;
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              ut fit ubi in parvas partis discerpitur austrum:
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              purpura poeniceusque color clarissimu' multo,
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              filatim cum distractum est, dispergitur omnis;
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              noscere ut hinc possis prius omnem efflare colorem
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              particulas quam discedant ad semina rerum.
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              <s id="s.000501">Postremo quoniam non obuia corpora vocem
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              mittere concedis neque odorem, propterea fit
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              ut non omnibus adtribuas sonitus et odores. </s>
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              sic oculis quoniam non omnia cernere quimus,
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              scire licet quaedam tam constare orba colore
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              quam sine odore ullo quaedam sonituque remota,
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