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

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              horribili sonitu silvas exederat altis
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              ab radicibus et terram percoxerat igni,
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              manabat venis ferventibus in loca terrae
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              concava conveniens argenti rivus et auri,
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              <s id="s.001442">quae cum concreta videbant
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              posterius claro in terra splendere colore,
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              tollebant nitido capti levique lepore
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              et simili formata videbant esse figura
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              atque lacunarum fuerant vestigia cuique.</s>
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              <s id="s.001443">tum penetrabat eos posse haec liquefacta calore
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              quamlibet in formam et faciem decurrere rerum
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              et prorsum quamvis in acuta ac tenvia posse
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              mucronum duci fastigia procudendo,
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              ut sibi tela darent, silvasque ut caedere possent
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              materiemque dolare et levia radere tigna
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              et terebrare etiam ac pertundere perque forare.</s>
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              <s id="s.001444">nec minus argento facere haec auroque parabant
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              quam validi primum violentis viribus aeris,
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              nequiquam, quoniam cedebat victa potestas
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              nec poterat pariter durum sufferre laborem.</s>
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              <s id="s.001445">tum fuit in pretio magis
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              aurumque iacebat
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              propter inutilitatem hebeti mucrone retusum.</s>
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              <s id="s.001446">nunc iacet aes, aurum in summum successit honorem. </s>
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              sic volvenda aetas commutat tempora rerum.</s>
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              <s id="s.001448">quod fuit in pretio, fit nullo denique honore;
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              porro aliut succedit et
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              contemptibus exit
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              inque dies magis adpetitur floretque repertum
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