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

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              surgere de terra nebulas aestumque videmus,
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              quae velut halitus hinc ita sursum expressa feruntur
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              suffunduntque sua, caelum caligine et altas
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              sufficiunt nubis paulatim conveniundo;
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              urget enim quoque signiferi super aetheris aestus
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              et quasi densendo subtexit caerula nimbis. </s>
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              fit quoque ut huc veniant in caelum extrinsecus illa
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              corpora quae faciunt nubis nimbosque volantis;
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              innumerabilem enim numerum summamque profundi
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              esse infinitam docui, quantaque volarent
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              corpora mobilitate ostendi quamque repente
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              inmemorabile
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              per
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              spatium transire solerent. </s>
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              haut igitur mirumst si parvo tempore saepe
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              montibus tam magnis tempestas atque tenebrae
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              coperiunt maria ac terras inpensa superne,
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              undique quandoquidem per caulas aetheris omnis
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              et quasi per magni circum spiracula mundi
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              exitus introitusque elementis redditus extat.
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              <s id="s.001605">Nunc age, quo pacto pluvius concrescat in altis
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              nubibus umor et in terras demissus ut imber
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              decidat, expediam. </s>
              <s id="s.001605a">primum iam semina aquai
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              multa simul vincam consurgere nubibus ipsis
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              omnibus ex rebus pariterque ita crescere utrumque
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              et nubis et aquam quaecumque in nubibus extat,
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              ut pariter nobis corpus cum sanguine crescit,
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              sudor item atque umor quicumque est denique membris.</s>
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              <s id="s.001606">concipiunt etiam multum quoque saepe marinum
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              umorem, veluti pendentia vellera lanae,
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              cum supera magnum mare venti nubila portant.
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