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

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              <s id="s.001675b">nonne vides audisve perire in tempore parvo
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              quam soleant et quam vitai copia desit,
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              quos opere in tali cohibet vis magna necessis?</s>
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              hos igitur tellus omnis exaestuat aestus
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              expiratque foras in apertum promptaque caeli.
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              <s id="s.001677">Sic et Averna loca alitibus summittere debent
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              mortiferam vim, de terra quae surgit in auras,
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              ut spatium caeli quadam de parte venenet;
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              quo simul ac primum pennis delata sit ales,
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              impediatur ibi caeco correpta veneno,
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              ut cadat e regione loci, qua derigit aestus. </s>
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              quo cum conruit, hic eadem vis illius aestus
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              reliquias vitae membris ex omnibus aufert. </s>
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              quippe etenim primo quasi quendam conciet aestum;
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              posterius fit uti, cum iam cecidere veneni
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              in fontis ipsos, ibi sit quoque vita vomenda
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              propterea quod magna mali fit copia circum.
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              <s id="s.001680">Fit quoque ut interdum vis haec atque aestus Averni
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              aera, qui inter avis cumquest terramque locatus,
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              discutiat, prope uti locus hic linquatur inanis.</s>
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              <s id="s.001681">cuius ubi e regione loci venere volantes,
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              claudicat extemplo pinnarum nisus inanis
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              et conamen utrimque alarum proditur omne.
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              <s id="s.001681a">hic ubi nixari nequeunt insistereque alis,
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              scilicet in terram delabi pondere cogit
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              natura, et vacuum prope iam per inane iacentes
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              dispergunt animas per caulas corporis omnis.
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              <s id="s.001682">frigidior porro in puteis aestate fit umor,
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