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

List of thumbnails

< >
91
91
92
92
93
93
94
94
95
95
96
96
97
97
98
98
99
99
100
100
< >
page |< < of 258 > >|
    <archimedes>
      <text>
        <body>
          <chap n="3">
            <p type="main">
              <s id="s.000691">
                <pb xlink:href="082/01/098.jpg" pagenum="136"/>
              nam procul hinc dubio nobis simulacra genuntur:-
                <lb/>
              nunc igitur quoniam quassatis undique vasis
                <lb/>
              diffluere umorem et laticem discedere cernis
                <lb/>
              et nebula ac furnus quoniam discedit in auras,
                <lb/>
              crede animam quoque diffundi multoque perire
                <lb/>
              ocius et citius dissolvi in corpora prima,
                <lb/>
              cum semel ex hominis membris ablata recessit.</s>
              <lb/>
              <s id="s.000692">quippe etenim corpus, quod vas quasi constitit eius,
                <lb/>
              cum cohibere nequit conquassatum ex aliqua re
                <lb/>
              ac rarefactum detracto sanguine venis,
                <lb/>
              aere qui credas posse hanc cohiberier ullo?</s>
              <s id="s.000693">
                <lb/>
              corpore qui nostro rarus magis
                <emph type="italics"/>
              is
                <emph.end type="italics"/>
              cohibessit?</s>
              <s id="s.000694">
                <lb/>
              </s>
            </p>
            <p type="main">
              <s id="s.000695">Praeterea gigni pariter cum corpore et una
                <lb/>
              crescere sentimus pariterque senescere mentem.</s>
              <lb/>
              <s id="s.000696">nam velut infirmo pueri teneroque vagantur
                <lb/>
              corpore, sic animi sequitur sententia tenvis.</s>
              <lb/>
              <s id="s.000697">inde ubi robustis adolevit viribus aetas,
                <lb/>
              consilium quoque maius et auctior est animi vis. </s>
              <s id="s.000698">
                <lb/>
              post ubi iam validis quassatum est viribus aevi
                <lb/>
              corpus et obtusis ceciderunt viribus artus,
                <lb/>
              claudicat ingenium, delirat lingua,
                <emph type="italics"/>
              labat
                <emph.end type="italics"/>
              mens,
                <lb/>
              Omnia deficiunt atque uno tempore desunt.</s>
              <lb/>
              <s id="s.000699">ergo dissolui quoque convenit omnem animai
                <lb/>
              naturam, ceu fumus, in altas aeris auras;
                <lb/>
              quandoquidem gigni pariter pariterque videmus
                <lb/>
              crescere et,
                <emph type="italics"/>
              ut
                <emph.end type="italics"/>
              docui, simul aevo fessa fatisci.</s>
              <lb/>
              <s id="s.000700"/>
            </p>
          </chap>
        </body>
      </text>
    </archimedes>