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

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              non ruere avolsos silices a montibus altis
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              nec validas aevi vires perferre patique
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              finiti?</s>
              <s id="s.001245"> neque enim caderent avolsa repente,
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              ex infinito quae tempore pertolerassent
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              omnia tormenta aetatis privata fragore.
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              <s id="s.001246">Denique iam tuere hoc, circum supraque quod omnem
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              continet amplexu terram: si procreat ex se
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              omnia, quod quidam memorant, recipitque perempta,
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              totum nativum mortali corpore constat. </s>
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              nam quodcumque alias ex se res auget alitque,
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              deminui debet, recreari, cum recipit res.
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              <s id="s.001248">Praeterea si nulla fuit genitalis origo
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              terrarum et caeli semperque aeterna fuere,
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              cur supera bellum Thebanum et funera Troiae
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              non alias alii quoque res cecinere poetae ?</s>
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              quo tot facta virum totiens cecidere neque usquam
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              aeternis famae monimentis insita florent ?</s>
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              verum, ut opinor, habet novitatem summa recensque
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              naturast mundi neque pridem exordia cepit.</s>
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              <s id="s.001251">quare etiam quaedam nunc artes expoliuntur,
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              nunc etiam augescunt; nunc addita navigiis sunt
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              multa, modo organici melicos peperere sonores.</s>
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              <s id="s.001252">denique natura haec rerum ratioque repertast
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              nuper, et hanc primus cum primis ipse repertus
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              nunc ego sum in patrias qui possim vertere voces.</s>
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              <s id="s.001253">quod si forte fuisse antehac eadem omnia credis,
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              sed periisse hominum torrenti saecla vapore,
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              aut cecidisse urbis magno vexamine mundi,
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              aut ex imbribus adsiduis exisse rapaces
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              per terras amnes at
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              que
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              oppida cooperuisse,
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