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Ingeminant curae rursusque resurgens Saevit amor magnoque irarum fluctuat aestu.
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Ingeminant curae rursusque resurgens Saevit amor magnoque irarum fluctuat aestu.
— Despair, and rage, and love divide her heart;
Despair and rage had some, but love the greater part.
— Lines 531–532 (translated by John Dryden).
Etsi difficiile esse videtur credere quicquam in rebus solido reperiri corpore posse. transit enim fulmen caeli per saepta domorum, clamor ut ad voces; flamen candescit in igni dissiliuntque ferre ferventi saxa vapore. tum labefactatus rigor auri solvitur aestu; tum glacies aeris flamma devicta liquescit; permanat calor argentum penetraleque frigus quando utrumque manu retinentes pocula rite sensimus infuso lympharum rore superne.
lucretius— And yet it is hard to believe that anything
in nature could stand revealed as solid matter.
The lightning of heaven goes through the walls of houses,
like shouts and speech; iron glows white in fire;
red-hot rocks are shattered by savage steam;
hard gold is softened and melted down by heat;
chilly brass, defeated by heat, turns liquid;
heat seeps through silver, so does piercing cold;
by custom raising the cup, we feel them both
as water is poured in, drop by drop, above.Book I, lines 487-496.
