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

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              et certa ratione geri rem atque ordine certo.
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              <s id="s.001485">Iam validis saepti degebant turribus aevom
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              et divisa colebatur discrataqe tellus.
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              iam mare velivolis florebat puppibus; urbes
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              auxilia ac socios iam pacto foeder habebant
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              carminibus cum res gestas coepere poetae
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              tradere; nec multo priu' sunt elementa reperta.</s>
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              nostra nequit, nisi qua ratio vestigia monstrat.
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              <s id="s.001487">Navigia atque agri culturas moenia leges
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              arma vias vestes
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              et
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              cetera de genere horum,
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              praemia, delicias quoque vitae funditus omnis,
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              carmina picturas, et daedala signa polire,
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              usus et impigrae simul experientia mentis
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              paulatim docuit pedetemtim progredientis. </s>
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              sic unumquicquid paulatim protrahit aetas
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              in medium ratioque in luminis erigit oras.
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