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

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              ulla foris atque ipsa, suis e partibus una,
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              unum in quem coepere locum conixa feruntur,
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              debent nimirum praecellere mobilitate
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              et multo citius ferri quam lumina solis
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              multiplexque loci spatium transcurrere eodem
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              tempore quo solis pervolgant fulgura caelum.
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              <s id="s.000303">[nec persectari primordia singula quaeque
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              ut
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              vi
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              deant qua quicque geratur cum ratione.
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              <s id="s.000304">At quidam contra haec, ignari materiai,
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              naturam non posse deum sine numine credunt
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              tanto opere humanis rationibus admoderate
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              tempora mutare annorum frugesque creare,
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              et iam cetera, mortalis quae suadet adire
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              ipsaque deducit dux vitae dia voluptas
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              et res per Veneris blanditur saecla propagent,
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              ne genus occidat humanum. </s>
              <s id="s.000305">quorum omnia causa
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              constituisse deos cum fingunt, omnibus rebus
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              magno opere a vera lapsi ratione videntur. </s>
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              nam quamvis rerum ignorem primordia quae sint
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              hoc tamen ex ipsis caeli rationibus ausim
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              confirmare aliisque ex rebus reddere multis,
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              nequaquam nobis divinitus esse creatam
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              naturam mundi:
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              tanta stat
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              praedita culpa. </s>
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              quae tibi posterius, Memmi, faciemus aperta.</s>
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