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

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              et qua vi facere id cogantur quaeque sit ollis
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              reddita mobilitas magnum per inane meandi,
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              expediam : tu te dictis praebere memento. </s>
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              nam certe non inter se stipata cohaeret
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              materies, quoniam minui rem quamq
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              ue
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              videmus
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              et quasi longinquo fluere omnia cernimus aevo
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              ex oculisque vetustatem subducere nostris,
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              cum, tamen incolumis videatur summa manere
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              propterea quia, quae decedunt corpora cuique,
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              unde abeunt minuunt, quo venere augmine donant,
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              illa senescere at haec contra florescere cogunt,
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              nec remorantur ibi. </s>
              <s id="s.000280">sic rerum summa novatur
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              semper, et inter se mortales mutua vivunt. </s>
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              augescunt aliae gentes, aliae minuuntur,
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              inque brevi spatio mutantur saecla animantum
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              et quasi cursores vitai lampada tradunt.
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              <s id="s.000282">Si cessare putas rerum primordia posse
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              cessandoque novos rerum progignere motus,
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              avius a vera longe ratione vagaris.</s>
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              <s id="s.000283">nam quoniam per inane vagantur cuncta necessest
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              aut gravitate sua ferri primordia rerum.</s>
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              <s id="s.000284">aut ictu forte alterius. </s>
              <s id="s.000285">nam
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              cum
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              , cita saepe
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              obvia conflixere, fit ut diversa repente
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              dissiliant; neque enim mirum, durissima quae sint
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              ponderibus solidis neque quicquam a tergo ibus obstet.</s>
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              <s id="s.000286">et quo iactari magis omnia materiai
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              corpora pervideas, reminiscere totius imum
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              nil esse in summa, neque habere ubi corpora prima
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              consistant, quoniam spatium sine fine modoquest
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              inmensumque patere in cunctas undique partis
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              pluribus ostendi et certa ratione probatumst.</s>
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              <s id="s.000287">quod quoniam constat, nimirum nulla quies est
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