Lucretius, De rerum natura: Libri Sex (Vol. I, Text), 1893
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              ardorem in partis et lumine conserit arva;
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              in terras igitur quoque solis vergitur ardor.</s>
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              <s id="s.000319">transversosque volare per imbris fulmina cernis:
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              nunc hinc nunc illinc abrupti nubibus ignes
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              concursant; cadit in terras vis flammea volgo. </s>
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              <s id="s.000321">Illud in his quoque te rebus cognoscere avemus,
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              corpora eum deorsum rectum per inane feruntur
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              ponderibus propriis,
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              se
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              incerto tempore ferme
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              incertisque locis spatio depellere paulum,
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              tantum quod momen mutatum dicere possis. </s>
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              quod nisi declinare solerent, omnia deorsum,
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              imbris uti guttae, caderent per inane profundum,
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              nec foret offensus natus nec plaga creata
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              principiis: ita nil umquam natura creasset.
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              <s id="s.000323">Quod si forte aliquis credit graviora potesse
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              corpora, quo citius rectum per inane feruntur,
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              incidere ex supero levioribus atque ita plag
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              as
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              gignere quae possint genitalis reddere motus,
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              avius a vera longe ratione recedit.</s>
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              <s id="s.000324">nam per aquas quaecumque cadunt atque aera rarum,
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              haec pro ponderibus casus celerare necessest
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              propterea quia corpus aquae naturaque tenvis
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              aeris haut possunt aeque rem quamque morari,
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              sed citius cedunt gravioribus exsuperata;
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              at contra nulli de nulla parte neque ullo
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              tempore inane potest vacuum subsistere rei,
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              quin, sua quod natura petit, concedere pergat;
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              omnia quapropter debent per inane quietum
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              aeque ponderibus non aequis concita ferri.</s>
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              <s id="s.000325">haud igitur poterunt levioribus incidere umquam
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              ex supero graviora neque ictus gignere per se
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