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

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              si tamen interea mirantur qua ratione
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              quaeque geri possint, praesertim rebus in illis
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              quae supera caput aetheriis cernuntur in oris,
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              rursus in antiquas referuntur religiones
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              et dominos acris adsciscunt, omnia posse
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              quos miseri credunt, ignari quid queat esse,
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              quid nequeat, finita potestas denique cuique
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              quanam sit ratione atque alte terminus haerens.
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              <s id="s.001195">Quod superest, ne te in promissis plura moremur,
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              principio maria ac terras caelumque tuere;
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              quorum naturam triplicem, tria corpora, Memmi,
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              tris species tam dissimilis, tria talia texta,
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              una dies dabit exitio, multosque per annos
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              sustentata ruet moles et machina mundi.</s>
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              <s id="s.001196">nec me animi fallit quam res nova miraque menti
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              accidat exitium caeli terraeque futurum,
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              et quam difficile id mihi sit pervincere dictis;
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              ut fit ubi insolitam rem adportes auribus ante
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              nec tamen hanc possis oculorum subdere visu
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              nec iacere indu manus, via qua munita fidei
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              proxima fert humanum in pectus templaque mentis.</s>
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              <s id="s.001197">sed tamen effabor. </s>
              <s id="s.001198">dictis dabit ipsa fidem res
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              forsitan et graviter terrarum motibus ortis
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              omnia conquassari in parvo tempore cernes.</s>
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              <s id="s.001199">quod procul a nobis flectat fortuna gubernans,
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              et ratio potius quam res persuadeat ipsa
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              <s id="s.001200">(Qua prius adgrediar quam de re fundere fata
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              sanctius et multo certa ratione magis quam
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              Pythia quae tripode a Phoebi lauroque profatur,
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              multa tibi expediam doctis solacia dictis
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              religione refrenatus ne forte rearis
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              terras et solem et caelum, mare sidera lunam,
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              corpore divino debere aeterna manere,
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              proptereaque putes ritu par esse Gigantum
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              pendere eos poenas inmani pro scelere omnis
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              qui ratione sua disturbent moenia mundi
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