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

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              et quibus effiant causis apparet origo;
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              ianua ne forte his Orci regionibus esse
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              credatur, post hinc animas Acheruntis in oras
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              ducere forte deos manis inferne reamur,
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              naribus alipedes ut cervi saepe putantur
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              ducere de latebris serpentia saecla ferarum. </s>
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              quod procul a vera quam sit ratione repulsum
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              percipe; nam de re nunc ipsa dicere conor.
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              <s id="s.001666">Principio hoc dico, quod dixi saepe quoque ante,
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              in terra cuiusque modi rerum esse figuras;
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              multa, cibo quae sunt, vitalia, multaque, morbos
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              incutere et mortem quae possint adcelerare. </s>
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              et magis esse aliis alias animantibus aptas
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              res ad vitai rationem ostendimus ante
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              propter dissimilem naturam dissimilisque
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              texturas inter sese primasque figuras. </s>
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              multa meant inimica per auris, multa per ipsas
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              insinuant naris infesta atque aspera iactu,
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              nec sunt multa parum tactu vitanda neque autem
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              aspectu fugienda saporeque tristia quae sint.
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              <s id="s.001669">Deinde videre licet quam multae sint homini res
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              acriter infesto sensu spurcaeque gravesque;
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              arboribus primum certis gravis umbra tributa
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              usque adeo, capitis faciant ut saepe dolores,
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              siquis eas supter iacuit prostratus in herbis. </s>
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              est etiam magnis Heliconis montibus arbos
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