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

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              nec totiens possint generatim saecla referre
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              naturam mores victum motusque parentum.
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              <s id="s.000148">Tum porro quoniam est extremum quodque cacumen
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              corporis illius quod nostri cernere sensus
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              iam nequeunt: id nimirum sine partibus extat
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              et minima constat natura nec fuit umquam
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              per se secretum neque posthac esse valebit,
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              alterius quoniamst ipsum pars, primaque et una
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              inde aliae atque aliae similes ex ordine partes
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              agmine condenso naturam corporis explent,
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              quae quoniam per se nequeunt constare, necessest
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              haerere unde queant nulla ratione revelli.</s>
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              <s id="s.000149">sunt igitur solida primordia simplicitate
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              quae minimis stipata cohaerent partibus arte,
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              non ex illarum conventu conciliata,
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              sed magis aeterna pollentia simplicitate,
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              unde neque avelli quicquam neque deminui iam
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              concedit natura reservans semina rebus.</s>
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              <s id="s.000150">praeterea nisi erit minimum, parvissima quaeque
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              corpora constabunt ex partibus infinitis,
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              quippe ubi dimidiae partis pars semper habebit
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              dimidiam partem nec res praefiniet ulla.</s>
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              <s id="s.000151">ergo rerum inter summam minimamque quid escit ?</s>
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              nil erit ut distet; nam quamvis funditus omnis
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              summa sit infinita, tamen, parvissima quae sunt,
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              ex infinitis constabunt partibus aeque.</s>
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              <s id="s.000153">quod quoniam ratio reclamat vera negatque
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