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  • Book 1: Liber Primus
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  • Book 4: Liber Quartus
  • Book 5: Liber Quintus
  • Book 6: Liber Sextus
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    Lucretius, De Rerum Natura

    Editions and translations: Latin | English (ed. William Ellery Leonard)
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    Liber Quartus

    Avia Pieridum peragro loca nullius ante
    trita solo. iuvat integros accedere fontis
    atque haurire, iuvatque novos decerpere flores
    insignemque meo capiti petere inde coronam,
    5
    unde prius nulli velarint tempora musae;
    primum quod magnis doceo de rebus et artis
    religionum animum nodis exsolvere pergo,
    deinde quod obscura de re tam lucida pango
    carmina musaeo contingens cuncta lepore.
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    id quoque enim non ab nulla ratione videtur;
    nam vel uti pueris absinthia taetra medentes
    cum dare conantur, prius oras pocula circum
    contingunt mellis dulci flavoque liquore,
    ut puerorum aetas inprovida ludificetur
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    labrorum tenus, interea perpotet amarum
    absinthi laticem deceptaque non capiatur,
    sed potius tali facto recreata valescat,
    sic ego nunc, quoniam haec ratio plerumque videtur
    tristior esse quibus non est tractata, retroque
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    volgus abhorret ab hac, volui tibi suaviloquenti
    carmine Pierio rationem exponere nostram
    et quasi musaeo dulci contingere melle;
    si tibi forte animum tali ratione tenere
    versibus in nostris possem, dum percipis omnem
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    naturam rerum ac persentis utilitatem.

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    Cross references from Harry Thurston Peck, Harpers Dictionary of Classical Antiquities (1898):
    religio [Religio]

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