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

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              icti reiectant voces ad sidera mundi
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              et circumvolitant equites mediosque repente
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              tramittunt valido quatientes impete campos. </s>
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              et tamen est quidam locus altis montibus
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              unde
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              stare videntur et in campis consistere fulgor.
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              <s id="s.000347">Nunc age iam deinceps cunctarum exordia rerum
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              qualia sint et quam longe distantia formis
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              percipe, multigenis quam sint variata figuris;
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              non quo multa parum simili sint praedita forma,
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              sed quia non volgo paria omnibus omnia constant.</s>
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              <s id="s.000348">nec mirum; nam cum sit eorum copia tanta
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              ut neque finis, uti docui, neque summa sit ulla,
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              debent nimirum non omnibus omnia prorsum
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              esse pari filo similique adfecta figura.</s>
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              <s id="s.000349">praeter eat genus humanum mutaeque natantes
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              squamigerum pecudes et laeta armenta feraeque
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              et variae volucres, laetantia quae loca aquarum,
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              concelebrant circum ripas fontisque lacusque,
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              et quae pervolgant nemora avia pervolitantes;
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              quorum unum quidvis generatim sumere perge,
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              invenies tamen inter se differre figuris.</s>
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              <s id="s.000350">nec ratione alia proles cognoscere matrem.</s>
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              <s id="s.000351">nec mater posset prolem; quod posse videmus
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              nec minus atque homines inter se nota cluere.</s>
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              <s id="s.000352">nam saepe ante deum vitulus delubra decora
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              turicremas propter mactatus concidit aras
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              sanguinis expirans calidum de pectore flumen;
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              at mater viridis saltus orbata peragrans
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              noscit humi pedibus vestigia pressa bisulcis,
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              omnia convisens oculis loca si queat usquam
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