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

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              <s id="s.001464a">SI FUIT UT FACERENT SED VIX ADDUCOR UT ANTE
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              NON QUIERINT ANIMO PRAESENTIRE ATQUE VIDERE
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              QUAM COMMUNE MALUM FIERET FOEDUMQUE FUTURUM
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              ET MAGIS ID POSSIS FACTUM CONTENDERE IN OMNI
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              IN VARIIS MUNDIS VARIA RATIONE CREATIS
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              QUAM CERTO ATQUE UNO TERRARUM QUOLIBET ORBI
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              sed facere id non tam vincendi spe voluerunt,
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              quam dare quod gemerent hostes, ipsique perire,
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              qui numero diffidebant armisque vacabant.
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              <s id="s.001465">Nexilis ante fuit vestis quam textile tegmen.
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              textile post ferrumst, quia ferro tela paratur,
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              nec ratione alia possunt tam levia gigni
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              insilia ac fusi radii scapique sonantes.</s>
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              <s id="s.001466">et facere ante viros lanam natura coegit
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              quam muliebre genus; nam longe praestat in arte
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              et sollertius est multo genus omne virile;
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              agricolae donec vitio vertere severi,
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              ut muliebribus id manibus concedere vellent
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              atque ipsi pariter durum sufferre laborem
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              atque opere in duro durarent membra manusque.
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              <s id="s.001467">At specimen sationis et insitionis origo
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              ipsa fuit rerum primum natura creatrix.</s>
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              <s id="s.001468">arboribus quoniam bacae glandesque caducae
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              tempestiva dabant pullorum examina supter;
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              unde etiam libitumst stirpis committere ramis
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              et nova defodere in terram virgulta per agros.</s>
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              <s id="s.001469">inde aliam atque aliam culturam dulcis agelli
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              temptabant fructusque feros mansuescere terram
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              cernebant indulgendo blandeque colendo.</s>
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              <s id="s.001470">inque dies magis in montem succedere silvas
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              cogebant infraque locum concedere cultis,
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              prata lacus rivos segetes vinetaque laeta
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