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

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              finibus in Cecropis funestos reddidit agros
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              vastavitque vias, exhausit civibus urbem. </s>
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              nam penitus veniens Aegypti finibus ortus,
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              aera permensus multum camposque natantis,
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              incubuit tandem populo Pandionis omnei,
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              inde catervatim morbo mortique dabantur.</s>
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              <s id="s.001775">principio caput incensum fervore gerebant
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              et duplicis oculos suffusa luce rubentes.</s>
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              <s id="s.001776">sudabant etiam fauces intrinsecus atrae
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              sanguine et ulceribus vocis via saepta coibat
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              atque animi interpres manabat lingua cruore,
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              debilitata malis, motu gravis, aspera tactu.
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              <s id="s.001776a">inde ubi per fauces pectus complerat et ipsum
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              morbida vis in cor maestum confluxerat aegris,
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              omnia tum vero vitai claustra lababant.</s>
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              <s id="s.001777">spiritus ore foras taetrum volvebat odorem,
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              rancida quo perolent proiecta cadavera ritu.
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              <s id="s.001777a">atque animi prorsum
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              tum
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              vires totius, omne
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              languebat corpus leti iam limine in ipso.</s>
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              <s id="s.001778">intolerabilibusque malis erat anxius angor
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              adsidue comes et gemitu commixta querella.</s>
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              <s id="s.001779">singultusque frequens noctem per saepe diemque
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              corripere adsidue nervos et membra coactans
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              dissoluebat eos, defessos ante, fatigans.</s>
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              <s id="s.001780">nec nimio cuiquam posses ardore tueri
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              corporis in summo summam fervescere partem,
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              sed potius tepidum manibus proponere tactum
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              et simul ulceribus quasi inustis omne rubere
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              corpus, ut est per membra sacer dum diditur ignis.</s>
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              <s id="s.001781">intima pars hominum vero flagrabat ad ossa,
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