{"book": 2, "line": 1, "key": "1", "latin": "Suave, mari magno turbantibus aequora ventis", "en": "Sweet it is, when on the great sea the winds are churning the waters,"}
{"book": 2, "line": 2, "key": "2", "latin": "e terra magnum alterius spectare laborem;", "en": "to watch from land the great toil of another;"}
{"book": 2, "line": 3, "key": "3", "latin": "non quia vexari quemquamst iucunda voluptas,", "en": "not because anyone's distress is a delightful pleasure,"}
{"book": 2, "line": 4, "key": "4", "latin": "sed quibus ipse malis careas quia cernere suavest.", "en": "but because it is sweet to see what evils you yourself are free of."}
{"book": 2, "line": 6, "key": "6", "latin": "suave etiam belli certamina magna tueri", "en": "Sweet, too, to look upon the great contests of war"}
{"book": 2, "line": 5, "key": "5", "latin": "per campos instructa tua sine parte pericli;", "en": "drawn up across the plains, with no share of your own in the danger;"}
{"book": 2, "line": 7, "key": "7", "latin": "sed nihil dulcius est, bene quam munita tenere", "en": "but nothing is sweeter than to hold the well-fortified"}
{"book": 2, "line": 8, "key": "8", "latin": "edita doctrina sapientum templa serena,", "en": "serene precincts, set on high by the teaching of the wise,"}
{"book": 2, "line": 9, "key": "9", "latin": "despicere unde queas alios passimque videre", "en": "from where you can look down on others and see them everywhere"}
{"book": 2, "line": 10, "key": "10", "latin": "errare atque viam palantis quaerere vitae,", "en": "wandering and, straying here and there, seeking the road of life,"}
{"book": 2, "line": 11, "key": "11", "latin": "certare ingenio, contendere nobilitate,", "en": "contending in talent, competing in nobility of birth,"}
{"book": 2, "line": 12, "key": "12", "latin": "noctes atque dies niti praestante labore", "en": "striving night and day with surpassing labor"}
{"book": 2, "line": 13, "key": "13", "latin": "ad summas emergere opes rerumque potiri.", "en": "to rise to the height of wealth and gain the mastery of things."}
{"book": 2, "line": 14, "key": "14", "latin": "o miseras hominum mentes, o pectora caeca!", "en": "O miserable minds of men, O blind hearts!"}
{"book": 2, "line": 15, "key": "15", "latin": "qualibus in tenebris vitae quantisque periclis", "en": "In what darkness of life and in how great dangers"}
{"book": 2, "line": 16, "key": "16", "latin": "degitur hoc aevi quod cumquest! nonne videre", "en": "this span of life, whatever it is, is passed! Do you not see"}
{"book": 2, "line": 17, "key": "17", "latin": "nihil aliud sibi naturam latrare, nisi ut qui", "en": "that nature barks for nothing else for herself than this, that"}
{"book": 2, "line": 18, "key": "18", "latin": "corpore seiunctus dolor absit, mente fruatur", "en": "pain be parted from the body and be absent, and the mind enjoy"}
{"book": 2, "line": 19, "key": "19", "latin": "iucundo sensu cura semota metuque?", "en": "a pleasant feeling, set apart from care and fear?"}
{"book": 2, "line": 20, "key": "20", "latin": "ergo corpoream ad naturam pauca videmus", "en": "Therefore we see that for the body's nature few things"}
{"book": 2, "line": 21, "key": "21", "latin": "esse opus omnino: quae demant cumque dolorem,", "en": "are needed at all: such things as take away pain,"}
{"book": 2, "line": 22, "key": "22", "latin": "delicias quoque uti multas substernere possint", "en": "and such that they can also spread out many delights for us,"}
{"book": 2, "line": 23, "key": "23", "latin": "gratius inter dum, neque natura ipsa requirit,", "en": "more welcome now and then; nor does nature herself feel the want,"}
{"book": 2, "line": 24, "key": "24", "latin": "si non aurea sunt iuvenum simulacra per aedes", "en": "if there are no golden images of youths about the halls"}
{"book": 2, "line": 25, "key": "25", "latin": "lampadas igniferas manibus retinentia dextris,", "en": "holding fire-bearing lamps in their right hands"}
{"book": 2, "line": 26, "key": "26", "latin": "lumina nocturnis epulis ut suppeditentur,", "en": "so that light may be supplied for feasts by night,"}
{"book": 2, "line": 27, "key": "27", "latin": "nec domus argento fulget auroque renidet", "en": "nor the house gleam with silver and shine with gold,"}
{"book": 2, "line": 28, "key": "28", "latin": "nec citharae reboant laqueata aurataque templa,", "en": "nor lyres echo through paneled and gilded rafters,"}
{"book": 2, "line": 29, "key": "29", "latin": "cum tamen inter se prostrati in gramine molli", "en": "when still, lying together on the soft grass"}
{"book": 2, "line": 30, "key": "30", "latin": "propter aquae rivum sub ramis arboris altae", "en": "beside a stream of water under the boughs of a tall tree,"}
{"book": 2, "line": 31, "key": "31", "latin": "non magnis opibus iucunde corpora curant,", "en": "with no great wealth they tend their bodies pleasantly,"}
{"book": 2, "line": 32, "key": "32", "latin": "praesertim cum tempestas adridet et anni", "en": "above all when the weather smiles and the seasons"}
{"book": 2, "line": 33, "key": "33", "latin": "tempora conspergunt viridantis floribus herbas.", "en": "of the year sprinkle the greening grass with flowers."}
{"book": 2, "line": 34, "key": "34", "latin": "nec calidae citius decedunt corpore febres,", "en": "Nor do hot fevers leave the body any faster"}
{"book": 2, "line": 35, "key": "35", "latin": "textilibus si in picturis ostroque rubenti", "en": "if you are tossed on woven pictures and blushing purple"}
{"book": 2, "line": 36, "key": "36", "latin": "iacteris, quam si in plebeia veste cubandum est.", "en": "than if you must lie beneath a common man's coverlet."}
{"book": 2, "line": 37, "key": "37", "latin": "quapropter quoniam nihil nostro in corpore gazae", "en": "Therefore, since in our body treasures are of no profit,"}
{"book": 2, "line": 38, "key": "38", "latin": "proficiunt neque nobilitas nec gloria regni,", "en": "nor nobility, nor the glory of a kingdom,"}
{"book": 2, "line": 39, "key": "39", "latin": "quod super est, animo quoque nil prodesse putandum;", "en": "for the rest, we must think they do the mind no good either;"}
{"book": 2, "line": 40, "key": "40", "latin": "si non forte tuas legiones per loca campi", "en": "unless perhaps, when you see your legions across the Campus"}
{"book": 2, "line": 41, "key": "41", "latin": "fervere cum videas belli simulacra cientis,", "en": "seething as they stir up the images of war,"}
{"book": 2, "line": 42, "key": "42", "latin": "subsidiis magnis et opum vi constabilitas,", "en": "made firm with great reserves and a force of wealth,"}
{"book": 2, "line": 43, "key": "43", "latin": "ornatas armis stlattas pariterque animatas,", "en": "your ships fitted out with arms, all alike full of spirit,"}
{"book": 2, "line": 44, "key": "44", "latin": "his tibi tum rebus timefactae religiones", "en": "then, before these things, the religions in their terror"}
{"book": 2, "line": 45, "key": "45", "latin": "effugiunt animo pavidae mortisque timores", "en": "flee panic-stricken from your mind, and the fears of death"}
{"book": 2, "line": 46, "key": "46", "latin": "tum vacuum pectus lincunt curaque solutum.", "en": "then leave your heart empty and loosed from care."}
{"book": 2, "line": 47, "key": "47", "latin": "quod si ridicula haec ludibriaque esse videmus,", "en": "But if we see that these things are laughable and a mockery,"}
{"book": 2, "line": 48, "key": "48", "latin": "re veraque metus hominum curaeque sequaces", "en": "and in truth the fears of men and the cares that dog them"}
{"book": 2, "line": 49, "key": "49", "latin": "nec metuunt sonitus armorum nec fera tela", "en": "fear neither the clash of arms nor savage weapons,"}
{"book": 2, "line": 50, "key": "50", "latin": "audacterque inter reges rerumque potentis", "en": "and boldly move among kings and the masters of things,"}
{"book": 2, "line": 51, "key": "51", "latin": "versantur neque fulgorem reverentur ab auro", "en": "and do not stand in awe of the glitter that comes from gold"}
{"book": 2, "line": 52, "key": "52", "latin": "nec clarum vestis splendorem purpureai,", "en": "nor the bright splendor of a purple robe,"}
{"book": 2, "line": 53, "key": "53", "latin": "quid dubitas quin omnis sit haec rationis potestas,", "en": "why do you doubt that this power belongs wholly to reasoning,"}
{"book": 2, "line": 54, "key": "54", "latin": "omnis cum in tenebris praesertim vita laboret?", "en": "especially when all life labors in darkness?"}
{"book": 2, "line": 55, "key": "55", "latin": "nam vel uti pueri trepidant atque omnia caecis", "en": "For just as children tremble and fear everything"}
{"book": 2, "line": 56, "key": "56", "latin": "in tenebris metuunt, sic nos in luce timemus", "en": "in blind darkness, so we in the light are afraid"}
{"book": 2, "line": 57, "key": "57", "latin": "inter dum, nihilo quae sunt metuenda magis quam", "en": "at times of things that are no more to be feared than"}
{"book": 2, "line": 58, "key": "58", "latin": "quae pueri in tenebris pavitant finguntque futura.", "en": "what children in the dark shudder at and imagine will come."}
{"book": 2, "line": 59, "key": "59", "latin": "hunc igitur terrorem animi tenebrasque necessest", "en": "This terror of the mind, then, and this darkness"}
{"book": 2, "line": 60, "key": "60", "latin": "non radii solis neque lucida tela diei", "en": "must be scattered not by the sun's rays or the bright shafts of day"}
{"book": 2, "line": 61, "key": "61", "latin": "discutiant, sed naturae species ratioque.", "en": "but by the face and reasoning of nature."}
{"book": 2, "line": 62, "key": "62", "latin": "Nunc age, quo motu genitalia materiai", "en": "Come now, by what motion the generative bodies of matter"}
{"book": 2, "line": 63, "key": "63", "latin": "corpora res varias gignant genitasque resolvant", "en": "beget the various things and dissolve them once begotten,"}
{"book": 2, "line": 64, "key": "64", "latin": "et qua vi facere id cogantur quaeque sit ollis", "en": "and by what force they are compelled to do it, and what"}
{"book": 2, "line": 65, "key": "65", "latin": "reddita mobilitas magnum per inane meandi,", "en": "mobility is given them for travelling through the great void,"}
{"book": 2, "line": 66, "key": "66", "latin": "expediam: tu te dictis praebere memento.", "en": "I shall explain; you, remember to give yourself to my words."}
{"book": 2, "line": 67, "key": "67", "latin": "nam certe non inter se stipata cohaeret", "en": "For certainly matter does not cling together, packed close"}
{"book": 2, "line": 68, "key": "68", "latin": "materies, quoniam minui rem quamque videmus", "en": "in a mass, since we see each thing diminish,"}
{"book": 2, "line": 69, "key": "69", "latin": "et quasi longinquo fluere omnia cernimus aevo", "en": "and we perceive all things flowing away, as it were, over long age,"}
{"book": 2, "line": 70, "key": "70", "latin": "ex oculisque vetustatem subducere nostris,", "en": "and age withdrawing them from our eyes,"}
{"book": 2, "line": 71, "key": "71", "latin": "cum tamen incolumis videatur summa manere", "en": "while yet the sum is seen to remain unimpaired,"}
{"book": 2, "line": 72, "key": "72", "latin": "propterea quia, quae decedunt corpora cuique,", "en": "because the bodies that depart from each thing"}
{"book": 2, "line": 73, "key": "73", "latin": "unde abeunt minuunt, quo venere augmine donant.", "en": "diminish what they leave, and on what they come to bestow increase."}
{"book": 2, "line": 74, "key": "74", "latin": "illa senescere, at haec contra florescere cogunt,", "en": "They force the one to grow old and the other in turn to flower,"}
{"book": 2, "line": 75, "key": "75", "latin": "nec remorantur ibi. sic rerum summa novatur", "en": "and do not linger there. So the sum of things is ever"}
{"book": 2, "line": 76, "key": "76", "latin": "semper, et inter se mortales mutua vivunt.", "en": "renewed, and mortals live by exchange among themselves."}
{"book": 2, "line": 77, "key": "77", "latin": "augescunt aliae gentes, aliae minuuntur,", "en": "Some races increase, others are diminished,"}
{"book": 2, "line": 78, "key": "78", "latin": "inque brevi spatio mutantur saecla animantum", "en": "and in a brief space the generations of living things are changed"}
{"book": 2, "line": 79, "key": "79", "latin": "et quasi cursores vitai lampada tradunt.", "en": "and like runners pass on the torch of life."}
{"book": 2, "line": 80, "key": "80", "latin": "Si cessare putas rerum primordia posse", "en": "If you think the first-beginnings of things can stand still"}
{"book": 2, "line": 81, "key": "81", "latin": "cessandoque novos rerum progignere motus,", "en": "and by standing still beget new motions of things,"}
{"book": 2, "line": 82, "key": "82", "latin": "avius a vera longe ratione vagaris.", "en": "you wander far astray from true reasoning."}
{"book": 2, "line": 83, "key": "83", "latin": "nam quoniam per inane vagantur, cuncta necessest", "en": "For since they wander through the void, all the first-beginnings"}
{"book": 2, "line": 84, "key": "84", "latin": "aut gravitate sua ferri primordia rerum", "en": "of things must be carried either by their own weight"}
{"book": 2, "line": 85, "key": "85", "latin": "aut ictu forte alterius. nam cum cita saepe", "en": "or perhaps by the blow of another. For when, swift, they have often"}
{"book": 2, "line": 86, "key": "86", "latin": "obvia conflixere, fit ut diversa repente", "en": "met and clashed, it comes about that suddenly they spring"}
{"book": 2, "line": 87, "key": "87", "latin": "dissiliant; neque enim mirum, durissima quae sint", "en": "apart in different ways; and no wonder, since they are very hard,"}
{"book": 2, "line": 88, "key": "88", "latin": "ponderibus solidis neque quicquam a tergibus obstet.", "en": "solid in their weight, and nothing blocks them from behind."}
{"book": 2, "line": 89, "key": "89", "latin": "et quo iactari magis omnia materiai", "en": "And so that you may see more clearly that all the bodies"}
{"book": 2, "line": 90, "key": "90", "latin": "corpora pervideas, reminiscere totius imum", "en": "of matter are tossed about, remember that the whole"}
{"book": 2, "line": 91, "key": "91", "latin": "nil esse in summa, neque habere ubi corpora prima", "en": "has no bottom in the sum, and the first bodies have no place"}
{"book": 2, "line": 92, "key": "92", "latin": "consistant, quoniam spatium sine fine modoquest", "en": "to come to rest, since space is without end or limit,"}
{"book": 2, "line": 93, "key": "93", "latin": "inmensumque patere in cunctas undique partis", "en": "and spreads immeasurable in all directions everywhere"}
{"book": 2, "line": 94, "key": "94", "latin": "pluribus ostendi et certa ratione probatumst.", "en": "as I have shown in many words and proved by sure reasoning."}
{"book": 2, "line": 95, "key": "95", "latin": "quod quoniam constat, ni mirum nulla quies est", "en": "And since this is settled, surely no rest"}
{"book": 2, "line": 96, "key": "96", "latin": "reddita corporibus primis per inane profundum,", "en": "is given to the first bodies through the deep void,"}
{"book": 2, "line": 97, "key": "97", "latin": "sed magis adsiduo varioque exercita motu", "en": "but rather, driven by unceasing and varied motion,"}
{"book": 2, "line": 98, "key": "98", "latin": "partim intervallis magnis confulta resultant,", "en": "some, when they have collided, leap back over great intervals,"}
{"book": 2, "line": 99, "key": "99", "latin": "pars etiam brevibus spatiis vexantur ab ictu.", "en": "and some are harried by the blow within short spaces."}
{"book": 2, "line": 100, "key": "100", "latin": "et quae cumque magis condenso conciliatu", "en": "And all those that, in a denser union,"}
{"book": 2, "line": 101, "key": "101", "latin": "exiguis intervallis convecta resultant,", "en": "brought together, rebound across small intervals,"}
{"book": 2, "line": 102, "key": "102", "latin": "indupedita suis perplexis ipsa figuris,", "en": "entangled by their own interlocking shapes,"}
{"book": 2, "line": 103, "key": "103", "latin": "haec validas saxi radices et fera ferri", "en": "these form the strong roots of rock and the savage bodies"}
{"book": 2, "line": 104, "key": "104", "latin": "corpora constituunt et cetera de genere horum.", "en": "of iron, and the other things of this kind."}
{"book": 2, "line": 105, "key": "105", "latin": "paucula quae porro magnum per inane vagantur,", "en": "Those few others that wander on through the great void"}
{"book": 2, "line": 106, "key": "106", "latin": "cetera dissiliunt longe longeque recursant", "en": "leap far apart and run far back again"}
{"book": 2, "line": 107, "key": "107", "latin": "in magnis intervallis; haec aera rarum", "en": "across great intervals; these furnish us the thin air"}
{"book": 2, "line": 108, "key": "108", "latin": "sufficiunt nobis et splendida lumina solis.", "en": "and the shining light of the sun."}
{"book": 2, "line": 109, "key": "109", "latin": "multaque praeterea magnum per inane vagantur,", "en": "And many besides wander through the great void"}
{"book": 2, "line": 110, "key": "110", "latin": "conciliis rerum quae sunt reiecta nec usquam", "en": "which have been thrown out of the unions of things and nowhere"}
{"book": 2, "line": 111, "key": "111", "latin": "consociare etiam motus potuere recepta.", "en": "have been able, even when let in, to join their motions together."}
{"book": 2, "line": 112, "key": "112", "latin": "Cuius, uti memoro, rei simulacrum et imago", "en": "Of this thing, as I tell, an image and picture"}
{"book": 2, "line": 113, "key": "113", "latin": "ante oculos semper nobis versatur et instat.", "en": "is always turning before our eyes and pressing on us."}
{"book": 2, "line": 114, "key": "114", "latin": "contemplator enim, cum solis lumina cumque", "en": "For look closely, whenever the sun's light is poured"}
{"book": 2, "line": 115, "key": "115", "latin": "inserti fundunt radii per opaca domorum:", "en": "by rays let in through the darkened places of houses:"}
{"book": 2, "line": 116, "key": "116", "latin": "multa minuta modis multis per inane videbis", "en": "you will see many minute bodies in many ways, through the void,"}
{"book": 2, "line": 117, "key": "117", "latin": "corpora misceri radiorum lumine in ipso", "en": "mingling in the very light of the rays,"}
{"book": 2, "line": 118, "key": "118", "latin": "et vel ut aeterno certamine proelia pugnas", "en": "and as though in everlasting conflict waging wars and battles,"}
{"book": 2, "line": 119, "key": "119", "latin": "edere turmatim certantia nec dare pausam,", "en": "fighting troop by troop, and giving no pause,"}
{"book": 2, "line": 120, "key": "120", "latin": "conciliis et discidiis exercita crebris;", "en": "driven on by frequent unions and partings;"}
{"book": 2, "line": 121, "key": "121", "latin": "conicere ut possis ex hoc, primordia rerum", "en": "so that from this you may guess what it is for the first-beginnings"}
{"book": 2, "line": 122, "key": "122", "latin": "quale sit in magno iactari semper inani.", "en": "of things to be tossed forever in the great void."}
{"book": 2, "line": 123, "key": "123", "latin": "dum taxat, rerum magnarum parva potest res", "en": "So far as it goes, a small thing can give"}
{"book": 2, "line": 124, "key": "124", "latin": "exemplare dare et vestigia notitiai.", "en": "a pattern of great things and the tracks of knowledge."}
{"book": 2, "line": 125, "key": "125", "latin": "Hoc etiam magis haec animum te advertere par est", "en": "For this reason, too, it is more fitting that you attend to these"}
{"book": 2, "line": 126, "key": "126", "latin": "corpora quae in solis radiis turbare videntur,", "en": "bodies that are seen to be in turmoil in the sun's rays,"}
{"book": 2, "line": 127, "key": "127", "latin": "quod tales turbae motus quoque materiai", "en": "because such turmoils signify that there are motions"}
{"book": 2, "line": 128, "key": "128", "latin": "significant clandestinos caecosque subesse.", "en": "of matter, too, hidden and blind, beneath them."}
{"book": 2, "line": 129, "key": "129", "latin": "multa videbis enim plagis ibi percita caecis", "en": "For you will see many there, struck by blind blows,"}
{"book": 2, "line": 130, "key": "130", "latin": "commutare viam retroque repulsa reverti", "en": "change their course and, driven back, return,"}
{"book": 2, "line": 131, "key": "131", "latin": "nunc huc nunc illuc in cunctas undique partis.", "en": "now this way, now that, in all directions everywhere."}
{"book": 2, "line": 132, "key": "132", "latin": "scilicet hic a principiis est omnibus error.", "en": "This wandering, you may be sure, all comes from the beginnings."}
{"book": 2, "line": 133, "key": "133", "latin": "prima moventur enim per se primordia rerum,", "en": "For first the first-beginnings of things move of themselves;"}
{"book": 2, "line": 134, "key": "134", "latin": "inde ea quae parvo sunt corpora conciliatu", "en": "then those bodies that are formed of a small union"}
{"book": 2, "line": 135, "key": "135", "latin": "et quasi proxima sunt ad viris principiorum,", "en": "and are, as it were, nearest to the strength of the beginnings"}
{"book": 2, "line": 136, "key": "136", "latin": "ictibus illorum caecis inpulsa cientur,", "en": "are set going, struck by their blind blows,"}
{"book": 2, "line": 137, "key": "137", "latin": "ipsaque proporro paulo maiora lacessunt.", "en": "and they in turn assail bodies a little larger."}
{"book": 2, "line": 138, "key": "138", "latin": "sic a principiis ascendit motus et exit", "en": "So motion rises from the beginnings and comes out"}
{"book": 2, "line": 139, "key": "139", "latin": "paulatim nostros ad sensus, ut moveantur", "en": "little by little to our senses, so that those too"}
{"book": 2, "line": 140, "key": "140", "latin": "illa quoque, in solis quae lumine cernere quimus", "en": "are moved which we can make out in the light of the sun,"}
{"book": 2, "line": 141, "key": "141", "latin": "nec quibus id faciant plagis apparet aperte.", "en": "though by what blows they do it does not plainly appear."}
{"book": 2, "line": 142, "key": "142", "latin": "Nunc quae mobilitas sit reddita materiai", "en": "Now what mobility has been given to the bodies"}
{"book": 2, "line": 143, "key": "143", "latin": "corporibus, paucis licet hinc cognoscere, Memmi.", "en": "of matter, Memmius, you may learn from this in a few words."}
{"book": 2, "line": 144, "key": "144", "latin": "primum aurora novo cum spargit lumine terras", "en": "First, when dawn sprinkles the lands with new light,"}
{"book": 2, "line": 145, "key": "145", "latin": "et variae volucres nemora avia pervolitantes", "en": "and the many-colored birds, flitting through the pathless woods,"}
{"book": 2, "line": 146, "key": "146", "latin": "aera per tenerum liquidis loca vocibus opplent,", "en": "fill the places through the soft air with liquid voices,"}
{"book": 2, "line": 147, "key": "147", "latin": "quam subito soleat sol ortus tempore tali", "en": "how suddenly the sun, once risen, is used at such a time"}
{"book": 2, "line": 148, "key": "148", "latin": "convestire sua perfundens omnia luce,", "en": "to clothe all things, flooding them with his light,"}
{"book": 2, "line": 149, "key": "149", "latin": "omnibus in promptu manifestumque esse videmus.", "en": "we see to be ready to hand and plain for all."}
{"book": 2, "line": 150, "key": "150", "latin": "at vapor is, quem sol mittit, lumenque serenum", "en": "But that heat which the sun sends out, and its calm light,"}
{"book": 2, "line": 151, "key": "151", "latin": "non per inane meat vacuum; quo tardius ire", "en": "does not travel through empty void; and so it is forced"}
{"book": 2, "line": 152, "key": "152", "latin": "cogitur, aerias quasi dum diverberat undas;", "en": "to go more slowly, as it beats its way, as it were, through waves of air;"}
{"book": 2, "line": 153, "key": "153", "latin": "nec singillatim corpuscula quaeque vaporis", "en": "nor do the little bodies of heat travel one by one,"}
{"book": 2, "line": 154, "key": "154", "latin": "sed complexa meant inter se conque globata;", "en": "but tangled with one another and massed together;"}
{"book": 2, "line": 155, "key": "155", "latin": "qua propter simul inter se retrahuntur et extra", "en": "and so at once they are dragged back by one another and hindered"}
{"book": 2, "line": 156, "key": "156", "latin": "officiuntur, uti cogantur tardius ire.", "en": "from outside, so that they are forced to go more slowly."}
{"book": 2, "line": 157, "key": "157", "latin": "at quae sunt solida primordia simplicitate,", "en": "But the first-beginnings that are of solid singleness,"}
{"book": 2, "line": 158, "key": "158", "latin": "cum per inane meant vacuum nec res remoratur", "en": "when they travel through empty void and nothing delays them"}
{"book": 2, "line": 159, "key": "159", "latin": "ulla foris atque ipsa suis e partibus unum,", "en": "from outside, and they themselves, one whole from their own parts,"}
{"book": 2, "line": 160, "key": "160", "latin": "unum, in quem coepere, locum conixa feruntur,", "en": "are borne, straining, toward the one place they began to move to,"}
{"book": 2, "line": 161, "key": "161", "latin": "debent ni mirum praecellere mobilitate", "en": "must surely surpass in mobility"}
{"book": 2, "line": 162, "key": "162", "latin": "et multo citius ferri quam lumina solis", "en": "and be carried far more swiftly than the light of the sun,"}
{"book": 2, "line": 163, "key": "163", "latin": "multiplexque loci spatium transcurrere eodem", "en": "and run through many times the extent of space in the same"}
{"book": 2, "line": 164, "key": "164", "latin": "tempore quo solis pervolgant fulgura caelum.", "en": "time in which the sun's flashes spread through heaven."}
{"book": 2, "line": 164, "key": "164a", "latin": "* * *", "en": "* * *"}
{"book": 2, "line": 165, "key": "165", "latin": "nec persectari primordia singula quaeque,", "en": "nor to follow out each single first-beginning,"}
{"book": 2, "line": 166, "key": "166", "latin": "ut videant qua quicque geratur cum ratione.", "en": "to see by what principle each thing comes about."}
{"book": 2, "line": 167, "key": "167", "latin": "At quidam contra haec, ignari materiai,", "en": "But some, against this, ignorant of matter,"}
{"book": 2, "line": 168, "key": "168", "latin": "naturam non posse deum sine numine reddunt", "en": "hold that nature cannot, without the power of the gods,"}
{"book": 2, "line": 169, "key": "169", "latin": "tanto opere humanis rationibus atmoderate", "en": "so closely fitted, in such measure, to human needs,"}
{"book": 2, "line": 170, "key": "170", "latin": "tempora mutare annorum frugesque creare", "en": "change the seasons of the years and create the crops"}
{"book": 2, "line": 171, "key": "171", "latin": "et iam cetera, mortalis quae suadet adire", "en": "and all the other things that mortals are urged to approach,"}
{"book": 2, "line": 172, "key": "172", "latin": "ipsaque deducit dux vitae dia voluptas", "en": "and to which divine pleasure herself, the guide of life, leads them,"}
{"book": 2, "line": 173, "key": "173", "latin": "et res per Veneris blanditur saecla propagent,", "en": "coaxing them through the works of Venus to propagate their generations,"}
{"book": 2, "line": 174, "key": "174", "latin": "ne genus occidat humanum. quorum omnia causa", "en": "so that the human race should not perish. When they imagine"}
{"book": 2, "line": 175, "key": "175", "latin": "constituisse deos cum fingunt, omnibus rebus", "en": "the gods have ordered all things for men's sake, in every way"}
{"book": 2, "line": 176, "key": "176", "latin": "magno opere a vera lapsi ratione videntur.", "en": "they seem to have slipped greatly from true reasoning."}
{"book": 2, "line": 177, "key": "177", "latin": "nam quamvis rerum ignorem primordia quae sint,", "en": "For even if I did not know what the first-beginnings of things are,"}
{"book": 2, "line": 178, "key": "178", "latin": "hoc tamen ex ipsis caeli rationibus ausim", "en": "this, still, from the very order of heaven I would dare"}
{"book": 2, "line": 179, "key": "179", "latin": "confirmare aliisque ex rebus reddere multis,", "en": "to affirm, and to show from many other things,"}
{"book": 2, "line": 180, "key": "180", "latin": "nequaquam nobis divinitus esse creatam", "en": "that by no means for us, by divine power, was created"}
{"book": 2, "line": 181, "key": "181", "latin": "naturam mundi: tanta stat praedita culpa.", "en": "the nature of the world: so great the flaws it stands endowed with."}
{"book": 2, "line": 182, "key": "182", "latin": "quae tibi posterius, Memmi, faciemus aperta;", "en": "These things, Memmius, I will make plain to you later;"}
{"book": 2, "line": 183, "key": "183", "latin": "nunc id quod super est de motibus expediemus.", "en": "now I will set out what remains concerning motions."}
{"book": 2, "line": 184, "key": "184", "latin": "Nunc locus est, ut opinor, in his illud quoque rebus", "en": "Now is the place, I think, in these matters to prove this too"}
{"book": 2, "line": 185, "key": "185", "latin": "confirmare tibi, nullam rem posse sua vi", "en": "to you: that no bodily thing can by its own force"}
{"book": 2, "line": 186, "key": "186", "latin": "corpoream sursum ferri sursumque meare.", "en": "be carried upward and travel upward."}
{"book": 2, "line": 187, "key": "187", "latin": "ne tibi dent in eo flammarum corpora frudem;", "en": "Do not let the bodies of flames deceive you in this;"}
{"book": 2, "line": 188, "key": "188", "latin": "sursus enim versus gignuntur et augmina sumunt", "en": "for they are born upward and take on their increase,"}
{"book": 2, "line": 189, "key": "189", "latin": "et sursum nitidae fruges arbustaque crescunt,", "en": "and upward the shining crops and the trees grow,"}
{"book": 2, "line": 190, "key": "190", "latin": "pondera, quantum in se est, cum deorsum cuncta ferantur.", "en": "though all weights, as far as in them lies, are carried downward."}
{"book": 2, "line": 191, "key": "191", "latin": "nec cum subsiliunt ignes ad tecta domorum", "en": "Nor, when fires leap up to the roofs of houses"}
{"book": 2, "line": 192, "key": "192", "latin": "et celeri flamma degustant tigna trabesque,", "en": "and with swift flame lick the rafters and beams,"}
{"book": 2, "line": 193, "key": "193", "latin": "sponte sua facere id sine vi subiecta putandum est.", "en": "must we think they do this of themselves, with no force thrust beneath."}
{"book": 2, "line": 194, "key": "194", "latin": "quod genus e nostro com missus corpore sanguis", "en": "Just so the blood let out from our body"}
{"book": 2, "line": 195, "key": "195", "latin": "emicat exultans alte spargitque cruorem.", "en": "spurts leaping on high and scatters gore."}
{"book": 2, "line": 196, "key": "196", "latin": "nonne vides etiam quanta vi tigna trabesque", "en": "Do you not see, too, with what force the water's moisture"}
{"book": 2, "line": 197, "key": "197", "latin": "respuat umor aquae? nam quo magis ursimus altum", "en": "spits out rafters and beams? For the more we have pushed them deep,"}
{"book": 2, "line": 198, "key": "198", "latin": "derecta et magna vi multi pressimus aegre,", "en": "straight down, and many with great force have pressed them, straining,"}
{"book": 2, "line": 199, "key": "199", "latin": "tam cupide sursum removet magis atque remittit,", "en": "the more eagerly it thrusts them back up and sends them out,"}
{"book": 2, "line": 200, "key": "200", "latin": "plus ut parte foras emergant exiliantque.", "en": "so that they rise and leap out by more than half their length."}
{"book": 2, "line": 201, "key": "201", "latin": "nec tamen haec, quantum est in se, dubitamus, opinor,", "en": "And yet we do not doubt, I think, that these, as far as in them lies,"}
{"book": 2, "line": 202, "key": "202", "latin": "quin vacuum per inane deorsum cuncta ferantur.", "en": "are all carried downward through the empty void."}
{"book": 2, "line": 203, "key": "203", "latin": "sic igitur debent flammae quoque posse per auras", "en": "So in the same way flames too must be able, through the breezes"}
{"book": 2, "line": 204, "key": "204", "latin": "aeris expressae sursum succedere, quamquam", "en": "of air, squeezed out, to climb upward, although"}
{"book": 2, "line": 205, "key": "205", "latin": "pondera, quantum in se est, deorsum deducere pugnent.", "en": "their weights, as far as in them lies, fight to draw them down."}
{"book": 2, "line": 206, "key": "206", "latin": "nocturnasque faces caeli sublime volantis", "en": "And the night torches of heaven, flying aloft,"}
{"book": 2, "line": 207, "key": "207", "latin": "nonne vides longos flammarum ducere tractus", "en": "do you not see them draw long trails of flame"}
{"book": 2, "line": 208, "key": "208", "latin": "in quas cumque dedit partis natura meatum?", "en": "toward whatever quarter nature has given them passage?"}
{"book": 2, "line": 209, "key": "209", "latin": "non cadere in terras stellas et sidera cernis?", "en": "Do you not see stars and constellations falling to the earth?"}
{"book": 2, "line": 210, "key": "210", "latin": "sol etiam caeli de vertice dissipat omnis", "en": "The sun also from the summit of heaven scatters its heat"}
{"book": 2, "line": 211, "key": "211", "latin": "ardorem in partis et lumine conserit arva;", "en": "to every side and sows the fields with light;"}
{"book": 2, "line": 212, "key": "212", "latin": "in terras igitur quoque solis vergitur ardor.", "en": "to the earth, therefore, the sun's heat also tends."}
{"book": 2, "line": 213, "key": "213", "latin": "transversosque volare per imbris fulmina cernis,", "en": "And you see thunderbolts fly slantwise through the rains;"}
{"book": 2, "line": 214, "key": "214", "latin": "nunc hinc nunc illinc abrupti nubibus ignes", "en": "now from here, now from there, fires broken from the clouds"}
{"book": 2, "line": 215, "key": "215", "latin": "concursant; cadit in terras vis flammea volgo.", "en": "rush together; the flaming force falls everywhere upon the earth."}
{"book": 2, "line": 216, "key": "216", "latin": "Illud in his quoque te rebus cognoscere avemus,", "en": "This too, in these matters, we long for you to know:"}
{"book": 2, "line": 217, "key": "217", "latin": "corpora cum deorsum rectum per inane feruntur", "en": "that when bodies are carried straight down through the void"}
{"book": 2, "line": 218, "key": "218", "latin": "ponderibus propriis, incerto tempore ferme", "en": "by their own weights, at quite uncertain times"}
{"book": 2, "line": 219, "key": "219", "latin": "incertisque locis spatio depellere paulum,", "en": "and uncertain places they push off a little from their course,"}
{"book": 2, "line": 220, "key": "220", "latin": "tantum quod momen mutatum dicere possis.", "en": "just so much that you could call it a change of motion."}
{"book": 2, "line": 221, "key": "221", "latin": "quod nisi declinare solerent, omnia deorsum", "en": "For if they were not used to swerve, all things would fall"}
{"book": 2, "line": 222, "key": "222", "latin": "imbris uti guttae caderent per inane profundum", "en": "downward like drops of rain through the deep void,"}
{"book": 2, "line": 223, "key": "223", "latin": "nec foret offensus natus nec plaga creata", "en": "and no collision would arise, no blow be created"}
{"book": 2, "line": 224, "key": "224", "latin": "principiis; ita nihil umquam natura creasset.", "en": "for the beginnings; so nature would never have created anything."}
{"book": 2, "line": 225, "key": "225", "latin": "Quod si forte aliquis credit graviora potesse", "en": "But if perhaps someone believes that heavier bodies,"}
{"book": 2, "line": 226, "key": "226", "latin": "corpora, quo citius rectum per inane feruntur,", "en": "because they are carried more swiftly straight through the void,"}
{"book": 2, "line": 227, "key": "227", "latin": "incidere ex supero levioribus atque ita plagas", "en": "can fall from above upon the lighter, and so beget"}
{"book": 2, "line": 228, "key": "228", "latin": "gignere, quae possint genitalis reddere motus,", "en": "blows that could give rise to generative motions,"}
{"book": 2, "line": 229, "key": "229", "latin": "avius a vera longe ratione recedit.", "en": "he strays far away, off the road, from true reasoning."}
{"book": 2, "line": 230, "key": "230", "latin": "nam per aquas quae cumque cadunt atque aera rarum,", "en": "For whatever falls through water and thin air,"}
{"book": 2, "line": 231, "key": "231", "latin": "haec pro ponderibus casus celerare necessest", "en": "these must quicken their fall in proportion to their weights,"}
{"book": 2, "line": 232, "key": "232", "latin": "propterea quia corpus aquae naturaque tenvis", "en": "because the body of water and the thin nature"}
{"book": 2, "line": 233, "key": "233", "latin": "aeris haud possunt aeque rem quamque morari,", "en": "of air cannot delay each thing equally,"}
{"book": 2, "line": 234, "key": "234", "latin": "sed citius cedunt gravioribus exsuperata;", "en": "but give way more quickly, overcome by heavier things;"}
{"book": 2, "line": 235, "key": "235", "latin": "at contra nulli de nulla parte neque ullo", "en": "but the empty void, by contrast, cannot on any side or at any"}
{"book": 2, "line": 236, "key": "236", "latin": "tempore inane potest vacuum subsistere rei,", "en": "time, hold up anything at all,"}
{"book": 2, "line": 237, "key": "237", "latin": "quin, sua quod natura petit, concedere pergat;", "en": "but must go on giving way, as its nature seeks;"}
{"book": 2, "line": 238, "key": "238", "latin": "omnia qua propter debent per inane quietum", "en": "therefore all things must, through the calm void,"}
{"book": 2, "line": 239, "key": "239", "latin": "aeque ponderibus non aequis concita ferri.", "en": "be carried at equal speed, though driven by unequal weights."}
{"book": 2, "line": 240, "key": "240", "latin": "haud igitur poterunt levioribus incidere umquam", "en": "Therefore heavier things will never be able to fall"}
{"book": 2, "line": 241, "key": "241", "latin": "ex supero graviora neque ictus gignere per se,", "en": "from above upon lighter ones, nor of themselves beget the blows"}
{"book": 2, "line": 242, "key": "242", "latin": "qui varient motus, per quos natura gerat res.", "en": "that vary the motions by which nature carries on things."}
{"book": 2, "line": 243, "key": "243", "latin": "quare etiam atque etiam paulum inclinare necessest", "en": "Therefore, again and again, bodies must incline"}
{"book": 2, "line": 244, "key": "244", "latin": "corpora; nec plus quam minimum, ne fingere motus", "en": "a little; but no more than the least, so that we do not seem to invent"}
{"book": 2, "line": 245, "key": "245", "latin": "obliquos videamur et id res vera refutet.", "en": "slanting motions, and the true facts refute it."}
{"book": 2, "line": 246, "key": "246", "latin": "namque hoc in promptu manifestumque esse videmus,", "en": "For this we see to be ready to hand and plain,"}
{"book": 2, "line": 247, "key": "247", "latin": "pondera, quantum in se est, non posse obliqua meare,", "en": "that weights, as far as in them lies, cannot travel slantwise"}
{"book": 2, "line": 248, "key": "248", "latin": "ex supero cum praecipitant, quod cernere possis;", "en": "when they plunge down from above, so far as you can see;"}
{"book": 2, "line": 249, "key": "249", "latin": "sed nihil omnino recta regione viai", "en": "but that nothing at all, from the straight line of its path,"}
{"book": 2, "line": 250, "key": "250", "latin": "declinare quis est qui possit cernere sese?", "en": "swerves of itself, who is there that could perceive?"}
{"book": 2, "line": 251, "key": "251", "latin": "Denique si semper motu conectitur omnis", "en": "Finally, if every motion is always linked,"}
{"book": 2, "line": 252, "key": "252", "latin": "et vetere exoritur motus novus ordine certo", "en": "and the new always arises from the old in a fixed order,"}
{"book": 2, "line": 253, "key": "253", "latin": "nec declinando faciunt primordia motus", "en": "and the first-beginnings do not by swerving make"}
{"book": 2, "line": 254, "key": "254", "latin": "principium quoddam, quod fati foedera rumpat,", "en": "some beginning of motion to break the covenants of fate,"}
{"book": 2, "line": 255, "key": "255", "latin": "ex infinito ne causam causa sequatur,", "en": "so that cause should not follow cause from infinity,"}
{"book": 2, "line": 256, "key": "256", "latin": "libera per terras unde haec animantibus exstat,", "en": "from where does it arise, free, for living things throughout the earth,"}
{"book": 2, "line": 257, "key": "257", "latin": "unde est haec, inquam, fatis avolsa voluntas,", "en": "from where, I ask, is this will wrested away from the fates,"}
{"book": 2, "line": 258, "key": "258", "latin": "per quam progredimur quo ducit quemque voluptas,", "en": "by which we go forward wherever pleasure leads each one,"}
{"book": 2, "line": 259, "key": "259", "latin": "declinamus item motus nec tempore certo", "en": "and likewise swerve our motions, at no fixed time"}
{"book": 2, "line": 260, "key": "260", "latin": "nec regione loci certa, sed ubi ipsa tulit mens?", "en": "and at no fixed place, but where the mind itself has carried us?"}
{"book": 2, "line": 261, "key": "261", "latin": "nam dubio procul his rebus sua cuique voluntas", "en": "For beyond doubt in these things each one's own will"}
{"book": 2, "line": 262, "key": "262", "latin": "principium dat et hinc motus per membra rigantur.", "en": "gives the beginning, and from it motions flow out through the limbs."}
{"book": 2, "line": 263, "key": "263", "latin": "nonne vides etiam patefactis tempore puncto", "en": "Do you not see too that, when in an instant of time the starting-gates"}
{"book": 2, "line": 264, "key": "264", "latin": "carceribus non posse tamen prorumpere equorum", "en": "are thrown open, the eager strength of the horses still cannot"}
{"book": 2, "line": 265, "key": "265", "latin": "vim cupidam tam de subito quam mens avet ipsa?", "en": "burst forth as suddenly as their mind itself longs to?"}
{"book": 2, "line": 266, "key": "266", "latin": "omnis enim totum per corpus materiai", "en": "For all the matter throughout the whole body, its whole"}
{"book": 2, "line": 267, "key": "267", "latin": "copia conciri debet, concita per artus", "en": "store, must be roused, so that, roused through all the limbs,"}
{"book": 2, "line": 268, "key": "268", "latin": "omnis ut studium mentis conixa sequatur;", "en": "it may strain together and follow the mind's desire;"}
{"book": 2, "line": 269, "key": "269", "latin": "ut videas initum motus a corde creari", "en": "so you may see that the start of motion is created by the heart,"}
{"book": 2, "line": 270, "key": "270", "latin": "ex animique voluntate id procedere primum,", "en": "and that it goes forth first from the will of the mind,"}
{"book": 2, "line": 271, "key": "271", "latin": "inde dari porro per totum corpus et artus.", "en": "and is then passed on through the whole body and limbs."}
{"book": 2, "line": 272, "key": "272", "latin": "nec similest ut cum inpulsi procedimus ictu", "en": "Nor is it the same as when we go forward pushed by a blow,"}
{"book": 2, "line": 273, "key": "273", "latin": "viribus alterius magnis magnoque coactu;", "en": "by another's great strength and great compulsion;"}
{"book": 2, "line": 274, "key": "274", "latin": "nam tum materiem totius corporis omnem", "en": "for then all the matter of the whole body,"}
{"book": 2, "line": 275, "key": "275", "latin": "perspicuumst nobis invitis ire rapique,", "en": "it is clear, goes and is swept along against our will,"}
{"book": 2, "line": 276, "key": "276", "latin": "donec eam refrenavit per membra voluntas.", "en": "until the will reins it back throughout the limbs."}
{"book": 2, "line": 277, "key": "277", "latin": "iamne vides igitur, quamquam vis extera multos", "en": "Do you see now, then, that although an outside force drives many"}
{"book": 2, "line": 278, "key": "278", "latin": "pellat et invitos cogat procedere saepe", "en": "and often compels them against their will to go forward"}
{"book": 2, "line": 279, "key": "279", "latin": "praecipitesque rapi, tamen esse in pectore nostro", "en": "and be swept headlong, still there is in our breast"}
{"book": 2, "line": 280, "key": "280", "latin": "quiddam quod contra pugnare obstareque possit?", "en": "something that can fight against it and resist?"}
{"book": 2, "line": 281, "key": "281", "latin": "cuius ad arbitrium quoque copia materiai", "en": "At whose command the store of matter too"}
{"book": 2, "line": 282, "key": "282", "latin": "cogitur inter dum flecti per membra per artus", "en": "is forced at times to turn through the limbs and joints,"}
{"book": 2, "line": 283, "key": "283", "latin": "et proiecta refrenatur retroque residit.", "en": "and, thrown forward, is reined back and settles back again."}
{"book": 2, "line": 284, "key": "284", "latin": "quare in seminibus quoque idem fateare necessest,", "en": "Therefore in the seeds too you must admit the same,"}
{"book": 2, "line": 285, "key": "285", "latin": "esse aliam praeter plagas et pondera causam", "en": "that there is besides blows and weights another cause"}
{"book": 2, "line": 286, "key": "286", "latin": "motibus, unde haec est nobis innata potestas,", "en": "of motions, from which this power is born in us,"}
{"book": 2, "line": 287, "key": "287", "latin": "de nihilo quoniam fieri nihil posse videmus.", "en": "since we see that nothing can come to be from nothing."}
{"book": 2, "line": 288, "key": "288", "latin": "pondus enim prohibet ne plagis omnia fiant", "en": "For weight prevents all things from coming about by blows,"}
{"book": 2, "line": 289, "key": "289", "latin": "externa quasi vi; sed ne res ipsa necessum", "en": "as by a force from outside; but that the thing itself should not"}
{"book": 2, "line": 290, "key": "290", "latin": "intestinum habeat cunctis in rebus agendis", "en": "hold an inward necessity in doing all things,"}
{"book": 2, "line": 291, "key": "291", "latin": "et devicta quasi cogatur ferre patique,", "en": "and be compelled, as if conquered, to bear and suffer,"}
{"book": 2, "line": 292, "key": "292", "latin": "id facit exiguum clinamen principiorum", "en": "this is brought about by the tiny swerve of the beginnings"}
{"book": 2, "line": 293, "key": "293", "latin": "nec regione loci certa nec tempore certo.", "en": "at no fixed place and at no fixed time."}
{"book": 2, "line": 294, "key": "294", "latin": "Nec stipata magis fuit umquam materiai", "en": "Nor was the store of matter ever more tightly packed"}
{"book": 2, "line": 295, "key": "295", "latin": "copia nec porro maioribus intervallis;", "en": "than now, nor again spread apart by greater intervals;"}
{"book": 2, "line": 296, "key": "296", "latin": "nam neque adaugescit quicquam neque deperit inde.", "en": "for nothing is added to it, and nothing perishes from it."}
{"book": 2, "line": 297, "key": "297", "latin": "qua propter quo nunc in motu principiorum", "en": "Therefore the motion in which the bodies of the beginnings"}
{"book": 2, "line": 298, "key": "298", "latin": "corpora sunt, in eodem ante acta aetate fuere", "en": "are now is the same motion they were in through ages gone by,"}
{"book": 2, "line": 299, "key": "299", "latin": "et post haec semper simili ratione ferentur,", "en": "and hereafter they will always be carried in like manner,"}
{"book": 2, "line": 300, "key": "300", "latin": "et quae consuerint gigni gignentur eadem", "en": "and what has been wont to be born will be born under the same"}
{"book": 2, "line": 301, "key": "301", "latin": "condicione et erunt et crescent vique valebunt,", "en": "condition, and will be, and grow, and be strong in their strength,"}
{"book": 2, "line": 302, "key": "302", "latin": "quantum cuique datum est per foedera naturai.", "en": "as much as is granted to each by nature's covenants."}
{"book": 2, "line": 303, "key": "303", "latin": "nec rerum summam commutare ulla potest vis;", "en": "Nor can any force change the sum of things;"}
{"book": 2, "line": 304, "key": "304", "latin": "nam neque quo possit genus ullum materiai", "en": "for there is nothing outside into which any kind of matter"}
{"book": 2, "line": 305, "key": "305", "latin": "effugere ex omni quicquam est extra, neque in omne", "en": "could flee out of the whole, nor any source from which, into the whole,"}
{"book": 2, "line": 306, "key": "306", "latin": "unde coorta queat nova vis inrumpere et omnem", "en": "a new force could rise and burst in and change the whole"}
{"book": 2, "line": 307, "key": "307", "latin": "naturam rerum mutare et vertere motus.", "en": "nature of things and turn its motions aside."}
{"book": 2, "line": 308, "key": "308", "latin": "Illud in his rebus non est mirabile, quare,", "en": "In these matters it is no wonder why,"}
{"book": 2, "line": 309, "key": "309", "latin": "omnia cum rerum primordia sint in motu,", "en": "although all the first-beginnings of things are in motion,"}
{"book": 2, "line": 310, "key": "310", "latin": "summa tamen summa videatur stare quiete,", "en": "the sum nonetheless seems to stand in utmost rest,"}
{"book": 2, "line": 311, "key": "311", "latin": "praeter quam siquid proprio dat corpore motus.", "en": "except where some thing makes motions with its own body."}
{"book": 2, "line": 312, "key": "312", "latin": "omnis enim longe nostris ab sensibus infra", "en": "For the whole nature of the first bodies lies far below"}
{"book": 2, "line": 313, "key": "313", "latin": "primorum natura iacet; qua propter, ubi ipsa", "en": "our senses, out of reach; therefore, since you cannot see"}
{"book": 2, "line": 314, "key": "314", "latin": "cernere iam nequeas, motus quoque surpere debent;", "en": "the bodies themselves, their motions too must steal away from sight;"}
{"book": 2, "line": 315, "key": "315", "latin": "praesertim cum, quae possimus cernere, celent", "en": "the more so since even things that we can see still often hide"}
{"book": 2, "line": 316, "key": "316", "latin": "saepe tamen motus spatio diducta locorum.", "en": "their motions when withdrawn from us by a distance of place."}
{"book": 2, "line": 317, "key": "317", "latin": "nam saepe in colli tondentes pabula laeta", "en": "For often on a hill, cropping the glad pastures,"}
{"book": 2, "line": 318, "key": "318", "latin": "lanigerae reptant pecudes, quo quamque vocantes", "en": "the woolly flocks creep on wherever, calling each one,"}
{"book": 2, "line": 319, "key": "319", "latin": "invitant herbae gemmantes rore recenti,", "en": "the grasses invite them, jeweled with fresh dew,"}
{"book": 2, "line": 320, "key": "320", "latin": "et satiati agni ludunt blandeque coruscant;", "en": "and the lambs, filled full, play and gently butt their heads;"}
{"book": 2, "line": 321, "key": "321", "latin": "omnia quae nobis longe confusa videntur", "en": "yet all these, seen from far off, seem to us blurred together,"}
{"book": 2, "line": 322, "key": "322", "latin": "et velut in viridi candor consistere colli.", "en": "like a whiteness standing still on a green hill."}
{"book": 2, "line": 323, "key": "323", "latin": "praeterea magnae legiones cum loca cursu", "en": "Again, when great legions fill the spaces of the plains"}
{"book": 2, "line": 324, "key": "324", "latin": "camporum complent belli simulacra cientes,", "en": "with their running, stirring up the images of war,"}
{"book": 2, "line": 325, "key": "325", "latin": "fulgor ubi ad caelum se tollit totaque circum", "en": "when the glitter lifts itself to the sky and all the earth around"}
{"book": 2, "line": 326, "key": "326", "latin": "aere renidescit tellus supterque virum vi", "en": "shines back with bronze, and beneath, from the force of men,"}
{"book": 2, "line": 327, "key": "327", "latin": "excitur pedibus sonitus clamoreque montes", "en": "a sound is roused by their feet, and the mountains, struck"}
{"book": 2, "line": 328, "key": "328", "latin": "icti reiectant voces ad sidera mundi", "en": "by the shouting, throw back the voices to the stars of the world,"}
{"book": 2, "line": 329, "key": "329", "latin": "et circum volitant equites mediosque repente", "en": "and horsemen wheel around and suddenly cross through"}
{"book": 2, "line": 330, "key": "330", "latin": "tramittunt valido quatientes impete campos;", "en": "the middle of the plains, shaking them with their strong charge;"}
{"book": 2, "line": 331, "key": "331", "latin": "et tamen est quidam locus altis montibus, unde", "en": "and yet there is some place on the high mountains from which"}
{"book": 2, "line": 332, "key": "332", "latin": "stare videntur et in campis consistere fulgor.", "en": "they seem to stand still, a glitter resting on the plains."}
{"book": 2, "line": 333, "key": "333", "latin": "Nunc age, iam deinceps cunctarum exordia rerum", "en": "Come now, next learn of what sort the origins"}
{"book": 2, "line": 334, "key": "334", "latin": "qualia sint et quam longe distantia formis,", "en": "of all things are, and how far they differ in their forms,"}
{"book": 2, "line": 335, "key": "335", "latin": "percipe, multigenis quam sint variata figuris;", "en": "how varied they are, in shapes of many kinds;"}
{"book": 2, "line": 336, "key": "336", "latin": "non quo multa parum simili sint praedita forma,", "en": "not that few are endowed with a like form,"}
{"book": 2, "line": 337, "key": "337", "latin": "sed quia non volgo paria omnibus omnia constant.", "en": "but because, as a rule, not all are alike to all."}
{"book": 2, "line": 338, "key": "338", "latin": "nec mirum; nam cum sit eorum copia tanta,", "en": "Nor is it a wonder; for since their store is so great"}
{"book": 2, "line": 339, "key": "339", "latin": "ut neque finis, uti docui, neque summa sit ulla,", "en": "that there is neither end, as I have taught, nor any sum to it,"}
{"book": 2, "line": 340, "key": "340", "latin": "debent ni mirum non omnibus omnia prorsum", "en": "it must surely be that not all are in every way"}
{"book": 2, "line": 341, "key": "341", "latin": "esse pari filo similique adfecta figura.", "en": "alike to all, of the same contour and of similar shape."}
{"book": 2, "line": 342, "key": "342", "latin": "Praeterea genus humanum mutaeque natantes", "en": "Further, the human race, and the mute swimming flocks"}
{"book": 2, "line": 343, "key": "343", "latin": "squamigerum pecudes et laeta armenta feraeque", "en": "of scaly creatures, and the glad herds, and wild beasts,"}
{"book": 2, "line": 344, "key": "344", "latin": "et variae volucres, laetantia quae loca aquarum", "en": "and the various birds, those that throng the gladdening"}
{"book": 2, "line": 345, "key": "345", "latin": "concelebrant circum ripas fontisque lacusque,", "en": "watering-places around the banks and springs and lakes,"}
{"book": 2, "line": 346, "key": "346", "latin": "et quae pervolgant nemora avia pervolitantes,", "en": "and those that flit abroad through the pathless woods:"}
{"book": 2, "line": 347, "key": "347", "latin": "quorum unum quidvis generatim sumere perge;", "en": "go on and take any one of these you will, kind by kind;"}
{"book": 2, "line": 348, "key": "348", "latin": "invenies tamen inter se differre figuris.", "en": "you will find that they still differ from one another in shape."}
{"book": 2, "line": 349, "key": "349", "latin": "nec ratione alia proles cognoscere matrem", "en": "Nor in any other way could offspring know its mother,"}
{"book": 2, "line": 350, "key": "350", "latin": "nec mater posset prolem; quod posse videmus", "en": "nor mother offspring; yet we see that they can,"}
{"book": 2, "line": 351, "key": "351", "latin": "nec minus atque homines inter se nota cluere.", "en": "and that they are known to one another no less than men are."}
{"book": 2, "line": 352, "key": "352", "latin": "nam saepe ante deum vitulus delubra decora", "en": "For often before the fair shrines of the gods a calf"}
{"book": 2, "line": 353, "key": "353", "latin": "turicremas propter mactatus concidit aras", "en": "falls slaughtered beside the incense-burning altars,"}
{"book": 2, "line": 354, "key": "354", "latin": "sanguinis expirans calidum de pectore flumen;", "en": "breathing out a warm river of blood from its breast;"}
{"book": 2, "line": 355, "key": "355", "latin": "at mater viridis saltus orbata peragrans", "en": "but the bereaved mother, wandering through the green glades,"}
{"book": 2, "line": 356, "key": "356", "latin": "novit humi pedibus vestigia pressa bisulcis,", "en": "knows the prints pressed into the ground by cloven hooves,"}
{"book": 2, "line": 357, "key": "357", "latin": "omnia convisens oculis loca, si queat usquam", "en": "searching every place with her eyes, if she can anywhere"}
{"book": 2, "line": 358, "key": "358", "latin": "conspicere amissum fetum, completque querellis", "en": "catch sight of her lost young, and, stopping, fills"}
{"book": 2, "line": 359, "key": "359", "latin": "frondiferum nemus adsistens et crebra revisit", "en": "the leafy grove with her lament, and often goes back"}
{"book": 2, "line": 360, "key": "360", "latin": "ad stabulum desiderio perfixa iuvenci,", "en": "to the stall, pierced through with longing for her calf;"}
{"book": 2, "line": 361, "key": "361", "latin": "nec tenerae salices atque herbae rore vigentes", "en": "nor can tender willows, nor grasses quickened with dew,"}
{"book": 2, "line": 362, "key": "362", "latin": "fluminaque ulla queunt summis labentia ripis", "en": "nor any rivers gliding level with their banks"}
{"book": 2, "line": 363, "key": "363", "latin": "oblectare animum subitamque avertere curam,", "en": "delight her mind and turn aside the sudden care,"}
{"book": 2, "line": 364, "key": "364", "latin": "nec vitulorum aliae species per pabula laeta", "en": "nor can the sight of other calves in the glad pastures"}
{"book": 2, "line": 365, "key": "365", "latin": "derivare queunt animum curaque levare;", "en": "draw her mind away and lighten it of care;"}
{"book": 2, "line": 366, "key": "366", "latin": "usque adeo quiddam proprium notumque requirit.", "en": "so much does she seek something her own and known."}
{"book": 2, "line": 367, "key": "367", "latin": "praeterea teneri tremulis cum vocibus haedi", "en": "Again, the tender kids with trembling voices"}
{"book": 2, "line": 368, "key": "368", "latin": "cornigeras norunt matres agnique petulci", "en": "know their horned mothers, and the butting lambs"}
{"book": 2, "line": 369, "key": "369", "latin": "balantum pecudes; ita, quod natura resposcit,", "en": "the bleating flocks; so, as nature demands,"}
{"book": 2, "line": 370, "key": "370", "latin": "ad sua quisque fere decurrunt ubera lactis.", "en": "each runs, for the most part, to its own udder of milk."}
{"book": 2, "line": 371, "key": "371", "latin": "Postremo quodvis frumentum non tamen omne", "en": "Finally, take any grain you will: you will still not see"}
{"book": 2, "line": 372, "key": "372", "latin": "quidque suo genere inter se simile esse videbis,", "en": "that every grain in its kind is like the others,"}
{"book": 2, "line": 373, "key": "373", "latin": "quin intercurrat quaedam distantia formis.", "en": "without some difference of form running between them."}
{"book": 2, "line": 374, "key": "374", "latin": "concharumque genus parili ratione videmus", "en": "And by a like principle we see the race of shells"}
{"book": 2, "line": 375, "key": "375", "latin": "pingere telluris gremium, qua mollibus undis", "en": "paint the lap of the earth, where with soft waves"}
{"book": 2, "line": 376, "key": "376", "latin": "litoris incurvi bibulam pavit aequor harenam.", "en": "the sea beats the thirsty sand of the curving shore."}
{"book": 2, "line": 377, "key": "377", "latin": "quare etiam atque etiam simili ratione necessest,", "en": "Therefore again and again by like reasoning it must be,"}
{"book": 2, "line": 378, "key": "378", "latin": "natura quoniam constant neque facta manu sunt", "en": "since they exist by nature and were not made by the hand"}
{"book": 2, "line": 379, "key": "379", "latin": "unius ad certam formam primordia rerum,", "en": "of one, to a fixed form, the first-beginnings of things,"}
{"book": 2, "line": 380, "key": "380", "latin": "dissimili inter se quaedam volitare figura.", "en": "that some of them fly about with shapes unlike each other."}
{"book": 2, "line": 381, "key": "381", "latin": "Perfacile est animi ratione exsolvere nobis", "en": "It is very easy for us, by the mind's reasoning, to explain"}
{"book": 2, "line": 382, "key": "382", "latin": "quare fulmineus multo penetralior ignis", "en": "why the fire of the thunderbolt flows far more piercing"}
{"book": 2, "line": 383, "key": "383", "latin": "quam noster fluat e taedis terrestribus ortus;", "en": "than ours, which is born from torches of the earth;"}
{"book": 2, "line": 384, "key": "384", "latin": "dicere enim possis caelestem fulminis ignem", "en": "for you could say that the heavenly fire of the thunderbolt"}
{"book": 2, "line": 385, "key": "385", "latin": "subtilem magis e parvis constare figuris", "en": "is subtler, consisting of small shapes,"}
{"book": 2, "line": 386, "key": "386", "latin": "atque ideo transire foramina quae nequit ignis", "en": "and so passes through openings that this fire of ours,"}
{"book": 2, "line": 387, "key": "387", "latin": "noster hic e lignis ortus taedaque creatus.", "en": "born from wood and created from the torch, cannot."}
{"book": 2, "line": 388, "key": "388", "latin": "praeterea lumen per cornum transit, at imber", "en": "Again, light passes through horn, but rain"}
{"book": 2, "line": 389, "key": "389", "latin": "respuitur. quare, nisi luminis illa minora", "en": "is thrown back. Why so, unless those bodies of light"}
{"book": 2, "line": 390, "key": "390", "latin": "corpora sunt quam de quibus est liquor almus aquarum?", "en": "are smaller than the ones that make the kindly liquid of the waters?"}
{"book": 2, "line": 391, "key": "391", "latin": "et quamvis subito per colum vina videmus", "en": "And although we see wine in an instant pass"}
{"book": 2, "line": 392, "key": "392", "latin": "perfluere, at contra tardum cunctatur olivom,", "en": "through a strainer, yet on the other hand oil lingers slow,"}
{"book": 2, "line": 393, "key": "393", "latin": "aut quia ni mirum maioribus est elementis", "en": "either because, surely, it is made of larger elements,"}
{"book": 2, "line": 394, "key": "394", "latin": "aut magis hamatis inter se perque plicatis,", "en": "or ones more hooked and tangled with one another,"}
{"book": 2, "line": 395, "key": "395", "latin": "atque ideo fit uti non tam diducta repente", "en": "and so it happens that they cannot be so suddenly drawn apart"}
{"book": 2, "line": 396, "key": "396", "latin": "inter se possint primordia singula quaeque", "en": "from one another that the first-beginnings, each one,"}
{"book": 2, "line": 397, "key": "397", "latin": "singula per cuiusque foramina permanare.", "en": "might, one by one, seep through the openings of each thing."}
{"book": 2, "line": 398, "key": "398", "latin": "Huc accedit uti mellis lactisque liquores", "en": "Add to this that the liquids of honey and of milk"}
{"book": 2, "line": 399, "key": "399", "latin": "iucundo sensu linguae tractentur in ore;", "en": "are handled in the mouth with a pleasant feeling on the tongue;"}
{"book": 2, "line": 400, "key": "400", "latin": "at contra taetra absinthi natura ferique", "en": "but on the other hand the loathsome nature of wormwood and of wild"}
{"book": 2, "line": 401, "key": "401", "latin": "centauri foedo pertorquent ora sapore;", "en": "centaury twists the mouth with its foul taste;"}
{"book": 2, "line": 402, "key": "402", "latin": "ut facile agnoscas e levibus atque rutundis", "en": "so that you can easily recognize that of smooth and round bodies"}
{"book": 2, "line": 403, "key": "403", "latin": "esse ea quae sensus iucunde tangere possunt,", "en": "are made the things that can touch the senses pleasantly,"}
{"book": 2, "line": 404, "key": "404", "latin": "at contra quae amara atque aspera cumque videntur,", "en": "but on the other hand whatever seems bitter and harsh,"}
{"book": 2, "line": 405, "key": "405", "latin": "haec magis hamatis inter se nexa teneri", "en": "these are held bound together by more hooked ones,"}
{"book": 2, "line": 406, "key": "406", "latin": "proptereaque solere vias rescindere nostris", "en": "and for that reason are used to tear their way into our"}
{"book": 2, "line": 407, "key": "407", "latin": "sensibus introituque suo perrumpere corpus.", "en": "senses, and to burst through the body as they enter."}
{"book": 2, "line": 408, "key": "408", "latin": "omnia postremo bona sensibus et mala tactu", "en": "Finally, all things good to the senses and bad to the touch"}
{"book": 2, "line": 409, "key": "409", "latin": "dissimili inter se pugnant perfecta figura;", "en": "are at war with one another, made of unlike shape;"}
{"book": 2, "line": 410, "key": "410", "latin": "ne tu forte putes serrae stridentis acerbum", "en": "lest you should perhaps think that the harsh shudder"}
{"book": 2, "line": 411, "key": "411", "latin": "horrorem constare elementis levibus aeque", "en": "of the screeching saw consists of elements as smooth"}
{"book": 2, "line": 412, "key": "412", "latin": "ac musaea mele, per chordas organici quae", "en": "as the Muses' melodies, which musicians, along the strings,"}
{"book": 2, "line": 413, "key": "413", "latin": "mobilibus digitis expergefacta figurant;", "en": "wake with nimble fingers and give form to;"}
{"book": 2, "line": 414, "key": "414", "latin": "neu simili penetrare putes primordia forma", "en": "nor should you think that first-beginnings of like form pierce"}
{"book": 2, "line": 415, "key": "415", "latin": "in nares hominum, cum taetra cadavera torrent,", "en": "into men's nostrils when foul corpses are burning"}
{"book": 2, "line": 416, "key": "416", "latin": "et cum scena croco Cilici perfusa recens est", "en": "and when the stage is freshly sprinkled with Cilician saffron"}
{"book": 2, "line": 417, "key": "417", "latin": "araque Panchaeos exhalat propter odores;", "en": "and the altar nearby breathes out the perfumes of Panchaea;"}
{"book": 2, "line": 418, "key": "418", "latin": "neve bonos rerum simili constare colores", "en": "nor suppose the pleasant colors of things are made of like"}
{"book": 2, "line": 419, "key": "419", "latin": "semine constituas, oculos qui pascere possunt,", "en": "seed, the colors that can feast the eyes,"}
{"book": 2, "line": 420, "key": "420", "latin": "et qui conpungunt aciem lacrimareque cogunt", "en": "and those that prick the sight and force it to weep,"}
{"book": 2, "line": 421, "key": "421", "latin": "aut foeda specie foedi turpesque videntur.", "en": "or look foul and ugly with their foul appearance."}
{"book": 2, "line": 422, "key": "422", "latin": "omnis enim, sensus quae mulcet cumque, tibi res", "en": "For every thing whatsoever that caresses the senses"}
{"book": 2, "line": 423, "key": "423", "latin": "haut sine principiali aliquo levore creatast;", "en": "was not created without some smoothness in its beginnings;"}
{"book": 2, "line": 424, "key": "424", "latin": "at contra quae cumque molesta atque aspera constat,", "en": "but on the other hand whatever is troublesome and harsh"}
{"book": 2, "line": 425, "key": "425", "latin": "non aliquo sine materiae squalore repertast.", "en": "is not found without some roughness of matter."}
{"book": 2, "line": 426, "key": "426", "latin": "Sunt etiam quae iam nec levia iure putantur", "en": "There are also things that are rightly thought neither to be smooth"}
{"book": 2, "line": 427, "key": "427", "latin": "esse neque omnino flexis mucronibus unca,", "en": "nor altogether hooked with bent points,"}
{"book": 2, "line": 428, "key": "428", "latin": "sed magis angellis paulum prostantibus, ut quae", "en": "but rather made with little angles jutting out a little, such as"}
{"book": 2, "line": 429, "key": "429", "latin": "titillare magis sensus quam laedere possint,", "en": "can tickle the senses rather than hurt them;"}
{"book": 2, "line": 430, "key": "430", "latin": "fecula iam quo de genere est inulaeque sapores.", "en": "of which kind are wine-lees and the flavors of elecampane."}
{"book": 2, "line": 431, "key": "431", "latin": "Denique iam calidos ignis gelidamque pruinam", "en": "Finally, that hot fires and icy frost"}
{"book": 2, "line": 432, "key": "432", "latin": "dissimili dentata modo conpungere sensus", "en": "are toothed in unlike ways and so prick the senses"}
{"book": 2, "line": 433, "key": "433", "latin": "corporis, indicio nobis est tactus uterque.", "en": "of the body, the touch of each gives us proof."}
{"book": 2, "line": 434, "key": "434", "latin": "tactus enim, tactus, pro divum numina sancta,", "en": "For touch, touch, by the holy powers of the gods,"}
{"book": 2, "line": 435, "key": "435", "latin": "corporis est sensus, vel cum res extera sese", "en": "is the sense of the body, whether when a thing from outside"}
{"book": 2, "line": 436, "key": "436", "latin": "insinuat, vel cum laedit quae in corpore natast", "en": "works its way in, or when a thing born in the body hurts it,"}
{"book": 2, "line": 437, "key": "437", "latin": "aut iuvat egrediens genitalis per Veneris res,", "en": "or gives delight going out through the generative acts of Venus,"}
{"book": 2, "line": 438, "key": "438", "latin": "aut ex offensu cum turbant corpore in ipso,", "en": "or when, from a collision, they riot within the body itself,"}
{"book": 2, "line": 439, "key": "439", "latin": "semina confundunt inter se concita sensum;", "en": "and the seeds, roused, throw the sense into confusion among themselves;"}
{"book": 2, "line": 440, "key": "440", "latin": "ut si forte manu quamvis iam corporis ipse", "en": "as if perhaps with your hand you yourself were to strike"}
{"book": 2, "line": 441, "key": "441", "latin": "tute tibi partem ferias atque experiare.", "en": "any part of your body you please and make the trial."}
{"book": 2, "line": 442, "key": "442", "latin": "qua propter longe formas distare necessest", "en": "Therefore the forms of the beginnings must differ far,"}
{"book": 2, "line": 443, "key": "443", "latin": "principiis, varios quae possint edere sensus.", "en": "since they can give rise to various sensations."}
{"book": 2, "line": 444, "key": "444", "latin": "Denique quae nobis durata ac spissa videntur,", "en": "Finally, the things that seem to us hardened and dense,"}
{"book": 2, "line": 445, "key": "445", "latin": "haec magis hamatis inter sese esse necessest", "en": "these must consist of elements more hooked together"}
{"book": 2, "line": 446, "key": "446", "latin": "et quasi ramosis alte compacta teneri.", "en": "and be held fast, compacted deep, as if by branches."}
{"book": 2, "line": 447, "key": "447", "latin": "in quo iam genere in primis adamantina saxa", "en": "In this class, first of all, stand rocks of adamant"}
{"book": 2, "line": 448, "key": "448", "latin": "prima acie constant ictus contemnere sueta", "en": "in the front line, used to scorning blows,"}
{"book": 2, "line": 449, "key": "449", "latin": "et validi silices ac duri robora ferri", "en": "and strong flints, and the strength of hard iron,"}
{"book": 2, "line": 450, "key": "450", "latin": "aeraque quae claustris restantia vociferantur.", "en": "and bronze that shrieks as it holds out against the bolts."}
{"book": 2, "line": 451, "key": "451", "latin": "illa quidem debent e levibus atque rutundis", "en": "Those indeed must be made rather of smooth and round bodies,"}
{"book": 2, "line": 452, "key": "452", "latin": "esse magis, fluvido quae corpore liquida constant.", "en": "the things that stand as liquids, with a fluid body."}
{"book": 2, "line": 453, "key": "453", "latin": "namque papaveris haustus itemst facilis quod aquarum;", "en": "For a scoop of poppy-seed flows as easily as one of water;"}
{"book": 2, "line": 454, "key": "454", "latin": "nec retinentur enim inter se glomeramina quaeque", "en": "for the little globes do not hold to one another,"}
{"book": 2, "line": 455, "key": "455", "latin": "et perculsus item proclive volubilis exstat.", "en": "and, once disturbed, it runs as readily down a slope."}
{"book": 2, "line": 456, "key": "456", "latin": "omnia postremo quae puncto tempore cernis", "en": "Finally, all things that you see in a point of time"}
{"book": 2, "line": 457, "key": "457", "latin": "diffugere ut fumum nebulas flammasque, necessest,", "en": "scatter, like smoke and mists and flames, it must be that,"}
{"book": 2, "line": 458, "key": "458", "latin": "si minus omnia sunt e levibus atque rotundis,", "en": "if they are not all made of smooth and round bodies,"}
{"book": 2, "line": 459, "key": "459", "latin": "at non esse tamen perplexis indupedita,", "en": "yet they are not hampered by tangled ones,"}
{"book": 2, "line": 460, "key": "460", "latin": "pungere uti possint corpus penetrareque saxa,", "en": "so that they can prick the body and pierce stones"}
{"book": 2, "line": 461, "key": "461", "latin": "nec tamen haerere inter se; quod cumque videmus", "en": "and yet not stick together; so that whatever we see"}
{"book": 2, "line": 462, "key": "462", "latin": "sensibus dentatum, facile ut cognoscere possis", "en": "to be toothed to the senses, you can easily know"}
{"book": 2, "line": 463, "key": "463", "latin": "non e perplexis, sed acutis esse elementis.", "en": "is made not of tangled but of sharp elements."}
{"book": 2, "line": 464, "key": "464", "latin": "sed quod amara vides eadem quae fluvida constant,", "en": "But that you see the same things bitter that are fluid,"}
{"book": 2, "line": 465, "key": "465", "latin": "sudor uti maris est, minime mirabile debet", "en": "as the sweat of the sea is, ought to be no wonder at all"}
{"book": 2, "line": 465, "key": "465a", "latin": "* * *", "en": "* * *"}
{"book": 2, "line": 466, "key": "466", "latin": "nam quod fluvidus est, e levibus atque rotundis", "en": "For because it is fluid, it is made of smooth and round bodies,"}
{"book": 2, "line": 467, "key": "467", "latin": "est, sed levibus sunt hamata admixta doloris", "en": "but mixed in with the smooth are hooked"}
{"book": 2, "line": 468, "key": "468", "latin": "corpora. nec tamen haec retineri hamata necessust:", "en": "bodies of pain. Yet these hooked ones need not be held fast:"}
{"book": 2, "line": 469, "key": "469", "latin": "scilicet esse globosa tamen, cum squalida constent,", "en": "clearly they are round nonetheless, rough though they are,"}
{"book": 2, "line": 470, "key": "470", "latin": "provolvi simul ut possint et laedere sensus.", "en": "so that they can at once roll forward and hurt the senses."}
{"book": 2, "line": 471, "key": "471", "latin": "et quo mixta putes magis aspera levibus esse", "en": "And that you may believe the more that rough are mixed with smooth"}
{"book": 2, "line": 472, "key": "472", "latin": "principiis, unde est Neptuni corpus acerbum,", "en": "beginnings, from which the body of Neptune gets its bitterness,"}
{"book": 2, "line": 473, "key": "473", "latin": "est ratio secernendi seorsumque videndi,", "en": "there is a way of separating them and seeing them apart:"}
{"book": 2, "line": 474, "key": "474", "latin": "umor dulcis ubi per terras crebrius idem", "en": "the moisture grows sweet when, through the earth, the same moisture"}
{"book": 2, "line": 475, "key": "475", "latin": "percolatur, ut in foveam fluat ac mansuescat;", "en": "is filtered through many times, to flow into a pit and grow mild;"}
{"book": 2, "line": 476, "key": "476", "latin": "linquit enim supera taetri primordia viri,", "en": "for it leaves behind, above, the first-beginnings of the foul brine,"}
{"book": 2, "line": 477, "key": "477", "latin": "aspera quo magis in terris haerescere possint.", "en": "since, being rough, they can cling the more within the earth."}
{"book": 2, "line": 478, "key": "478", "latin": "Quod quoniam docui, pergam conectere rem quae", "en": "Since I have taught this, I will go on to join to it a fact"}
{"book": 2, "line": 479, "key": "479", "latin": "ex hoc apta fidem ducat, primordia rerum", "en": "which, fitted to this, draws its credit: that the first-beginnings of things"}
{"book": 2, "line": 480, "key": "480", "latin": "finita variare figurarum ratione.", "en": "vary within a finite range of shapes."}
{"book": 2, "line": 481, "key": "481", "latin": "quod si non ita sit, rursum iam semina quaedam", "en": "For if it were not so, then again certain seeds"}
{"book": 2, "line": 482, "key": "482", "latin": "esse infinito debebunt corporis auctu.", "en": "will have to be infinite in the growth of their bodies."}
{"book": 2, "line": 483, "key": "483", "latin": "namque in eadem una cuiusvis iam brevitate", "en": "For within the one same smallness of any given"}
{"book": 2, "line": 484, "key": "484", "latin": "corporis inter se multum variare figurae", "en": "body, for the shapes to vary much from one another"}
{"book": 2, "line": 485, "key": "485", "latin": "non possunt. fac enim minimis e partibus esse", "en": "is not possible. For suppose that of least parts, three of them,"}
{"book": 2, "line": 486, "key": "486", "latin": "corpora prima tribus, vel paulo pluribus auge;", "en": "the first bodies are made, or add a few more to these;"}
{"book": 2, "line": 487, "key": "487", "latin": "nempe ubi eas partis unius corporis omnis,", "en": "surely, when all those parts of a single body"}
{"book": 2, "line": 488, "key": "488", "latin": "summa atque ima locans, transmutans dextera laevis,", "en": "you have set at top and bottom, and changed the right for the left,"}
{"book": 2, "line": 489, "key": "489", "latin": "omnimodis expertus eris, quam quisque det ordo", "en": "and tried in every way what appearance each order gives"}
{"book": 2, "line": 490, "key": "490", "latin": "formai speciem totius corporis eius,", "en": "of form to the whole of that body,"}
{"book": 2, "line": 491, "key": "491", "latin": "quod super est, si forte voles variare figuras,", "en": "for the rest, if you chance to want to vary the shapes,"}
{"book": 2, "line": 492, "key": "492", "latin": "addendum partis alias erit. inde sequetur,", "en": "other parts will have to be added. From this it will follow"}
{"book": 2, "line": 493, "key": "493", "latin": "adsimili ratione alias ut postulet ordo,", "en": "that, on a like principle, the order will call for others,"}
{"book": 2, "line": 494, "key": "494", "latin": "si tu forte voles etiam variare figuras.", "en": "if you chance to want to vary the shapes still further."}
{"book": 2, "line": 495, "key": "495", "latin": "ergo formarum novitatem corporis augmen", "en": "Therefore growth of body follows upon newness of forms"}
{"book": 2, "line": 496, "key": "496", "latin": "subsequitur. quare non est ut credere possis", "en": "close behind. And so there is no way you can believe"}
{"book": 2, "line": 497, "key": "497", "latin": "esse infinitis distantia semina formis,", "en": "that seeds exist distinguished by infinite forms,"}
{"book": 2, "line": 498, "key": "498", "latin": "ne quaedam cogas inmani maximitate", "en": "lest you force certain of them to be of monstrous greatness,"}
{"book": 2, "line": 499, "key": "499", "latin": "esse, supra quod iam docui non posse probari.", "en": "which I have already shown above cannot be proved."}
{"book": 2, "line": 500, "key": "500", "latin": "iam tibi barbaricae vestes Meliboeaque fulgens", "en": "Then barbarian robes and the gleaming Meliboean purple,"}
{"book": 2, "line": 501, "key": "501", "latin": "purpura Thessalico concharum tacta colore,", "en": "dipped in the Thessalian color of the shells,"}
{"book": 2, "line": 502, "key": "502", "latin": "aurea pavonum ridenti imbuta lepore", "en": "the golden race of peacocks, steeped in laughing charm,"}
{"book": 2, "line": 503, "key": "503", "latin": "saecla novo rerum superata colore iacerent", "en": "would lie outdone by some new color in things,"}
{"book": 2, "line": 504, "key": "504", "latin": "et contemptus odor smyrnae mellisque sapores,", "en": "and the smell of myrrh would be scorned, and the savors of honey,"}
{"book": 2, "line": 505, "key": "505", "latin": "et cycnea mele Phoebeaque daedala chordis", "en": "and the swan's notes and the intricate strains of Phoebus' strings"}
{"book": 2, "line": 506, "key": "506", "latin": "carmina consimili ratione oppressa silerent;", "en": "would fall silent, overpowered in like manner;"}
{"book": 2, "line": 507, "key": "507", "latin": "namque aliis aliud praestantius exoreretur.", "en": "for one thing would always rise more excellent than another."}
{"book": 2, "line": 508, "key": "508", "latin": "cedere item retro possent in deteriores", "en": "So too all things could fall back toward the worse,"}
{"book": 2, "line": 509, "key": "509", "latin": "omnia sic partis, ut diximus in melioris;", "en": "just as we have said they could toward the better;"}
{"book": 2, "line": 510, "key": "510", "latin": "namque aliis aliud retro quoque taetrius esset", "en": "for one thing would also be more loathsome than another, in reverse,"}
{"book": 2, "line": 511, "key": "511", "latin": "naribus auribus atque oculis orisque sapori.", "en": "to nostrils, ears and eyes, and to the taste of the mouth."}
{"book": 2, "line": 512, "key": "512", "latin": "quae quoniam non sunt, sed rebus reddita certa", "en": "And since these things are not so, but a fixed limit, assigned"}
{"book": 2, "line": 513, "key": "513", "latin": "finis utrimque tenet summam, fateare necessest", "en": "to things, holds the sum on either side, you must admit"}
{"book": 2, "line": 514, "key": "514", "latin": "materiem quoque finitis differe figuris.", "en": "that matter too differs in a finite number of shapes."}
{"book": 2, "line": 515, "key": "515", "latin": "denique ab ignibus ad gelidas hiemum usque pruinas", "en": "Finally, from fires to the freezing frosts of winters"}
{"book": 2, "line": 516, "key": "516", "latin": "finitumst retroque pari ratione remensumst.", "en": "the way is bounded, and measured back again in equal measure."}
{"book": 2, "line": 517, "key": "517", "latin": "omnis enim calor ac frigus mediique tepores", "en": "For all heat and cold and the middle warmths"}
{"book": 2, "line": 518, "key": "518", "latin": "interutrasque iacent explentes ordine summam.", "en": "lie between the two, filling out the sum in order."}
{"book": 2, "line": 519, "key": "519", "latin": "ergo finita distant ratione creata,", "en": "Therefore created things differ within a finite range,"}
{"book": 2, "line": 520, "key": "520", "latin": "ancipiti quoniam mucroni utrimque notantur,", "en": "since at both ends they are marked by a two-edged point,"}
{"book": 2, "line": 521, "key": "521", "latin": "hinc flammis illinc rigidis infesta pruinis.", "en": "beset by flames on this side and on that by stiff frosts."}
{"book": 2, "line": 522, "key": "522", "latin": "Quod quoniam docui, pergam conectere rem quae", "en": "Since I have taught this, I will go on to join to it a fact"}
{"book": 2, "line": 523, "key": "523", "latin": "ex hoc apta fidem ducat, primordia rerum,", "en": "which, fitted to this, draws its credit: that the first-beginnings of things,"}
{"book": 2, "line": 524, "key": "524", "latin": "inter se simili quae sunt perfecta figura,", "en": "those that are made of a shape alike among themselves,"}
{"book": 2, "line": 525, "key": "525", "latin": "infinita cluere. etenim distantia cum sit", "en": "are infinite in number. For since the difference"}
{"book": 2, "line": 526, "key": "526", "latin": "formarum finita, necesse est quae similes sint", "en": "of forms is finite, it must be that those that are alike"}
{"book": 2, "line": 527, "key": "527", "latin": "esse infinitas aut summam materiai", "en": "are infinite, or else that the sum of matter"}
{"book": 2, "line": 528, "key": "528", "latin": "finitam constare, id quod non esse probavi.", "en": "is finite, which I have proved is not so."}
{"book": 2, "line": 528, "key": "528a", "latin": "* * *", "en": "* * *"}
{"book": 2, "line": 529, "key": "529", "latin": "versibus ostendam corpuscula materiai", "en": "I will show in verses that the little bodies of matter"}
{"book": 2, "line": 530, "key": "530", "latin": "ex infinito summam rerum usque tenere", "en": "from infinity keep the sum of things going"}
{"book": 2, "line": 531, "key": "531", "latin": "undique protelo plagarum continuato.", "en": "on every side, by an unbroken relay of blows."}
{"book": 2, "line": 532, "key": "532", "latin": "nam quod rara vides magis esse animalia quaedam", "en": "For as to your seeing certain animals to be rarer,"}
{"book": 2, "line": 533, "key": "533", "latin": "fecundamque magis naturam cernis in illis,", "en": "and discerning in those others a nature more fruitful,"}
{"book": 2, "line": 534, "key": "534", "latin": "at regione locoque alio terrisque remotis", "en": "yet in another region and place, in far-off lands,"}
{"book": 2, "line": 535, "key": "535", "latin": "multa licet genere esse in eo numerumque repleri;", "en": "there may be many of that kind, and the number made up;"}
{"book": 2, "line": 536, "key": "536", "latin": "sicut quadripedum cum primis esse videmus", "en": "as among four-footed beasts we see, first of all,"}
{"book": 2, "line": 537, "key": "537", "latin": "in genere anguimanus elephantos, India quorum", "en": "the kind of snake-handed elephants, by whose many thousands"}
{"book": 2, "line": 538, "key": "538", "latin": "milibus e multis vallo munitur eburno,", "en": "India is fortified with a rampart of ivory,"}
{"book": 2, "line": 539, "key": "539", "latin": "ut penitus nequeat penetrari: tanta ferarum", "en": "so that it cannot be entered deep: so great is the multitude"}
{"book": 2, "line": 540, "key": "540", "latin": "vis est, quarum nos perpauca exempla videmus.", "en": "of these beasts, of which we see very few examples."}
{"book": 2, "line": 541, "key": "541", "latin": "sed tamen id quoque uti concedam, quam lubet esto", "en": "But still, to concede this too, let there be, as you please,"}
{"book": 2, "line": 542, "key": "542", "latin": "unica res quaedem nativo corpore sola,", "en": "some single thing, alone in the body it was born with,"}
{"book": 2, "line": 543, "key": "543", "latin": "cui similis toto terrarum non sit, in orbi;", "en": "with nothing like it in the whole round of the lands;"}
{"book": 2, "line": 544, "key": "544", "latin": "infinita tamen nisi erit vis materiai,", "en": "yet unless the store of matter is infinite,"}
{"book": 2, "line": 545, "key": "545", "latin": "unde ea progigni possit concepta, creari", "en": "from which it may be conceived and brought forth, it could not"}
{"book": 2, "line": 546, "key": "546", "latin": "non poterit neque, quod super est, procrescere alique.", "en": "be created, nor, for the rest, grow up and be nourished."}
{"book": 2, "line": 547, "key": "547", "latin": "quippe etenim sumant alii finita per omne", "en": "For indeed, let others assume that a finite number"}
{"book": 2, "line": 548, "key": "548", "latin": "corpora iactari unius genitalia rei,", "en": "of generative bodies of one thing are tossed through the whole:"}
{"book": 2, "line": 549, "key": "549", "latin": "unde ubi qua vi et quo pacto congressa coibunt", "en": "from where, where, by what force, in what way will they meet and join"}
{"book": 2, "line": 550, "key": "550", "latin": "materiae tanto in pelago turbaque aliena?", "en": "in so great a sea of matter, in so alien a throng?"}
{"book": 2, "line": 551, "key": "551", "latin": "non, ut opinor, habent rationem conciliandi:", "en": "They have no means, I think, of making a union;"}
{"book": 2, "line": 552, "key": "552", "latin": "sed quasi naufragiis magnis multisque coortis", "en": "but as, when great and many shipwrecks have arisen,"}
{"book": 2, "line": 553, "key": "553", "latin": "disiactare solet magnum mare transtra cavernas", "en": "the great sea is used to toss about thwarts, hulls,"}
{"book": 2, "line": 554, "key": "554", "latin": "antemnas prorem malos tonsasque natantis,", "en": "yards, prows, masts and swimming oars,"}
{"book": 2, "line": 555, "key": "555", "latin": "per terrarum omnis oras fluitantia aplustra", "en": "so that along all the lands' shores the floating stern-ornaments"}
{"book": 2, "line": 556, "key": "556", "latin": "ut videantur et indicium mortalibus edant,", "en": "are seen, and give mortals a warning"}
{"book": 2, "line": 557, "key": "557", "latin": "infidi maris insidias virisque dolumque", "en": "to shun the snares of the faithless sea, its strength and guile,"}
{"book": 2, "line": 558, "key": "558", "latin": "ut vitare velint, neve ullo tempore credant,", "en": "and never at any time to trust it,"}
{"book": 2, "line": 559, "key": "559", "latin": "subdola cum ridet placidi pellacia ponti,", "en": "when the sly enticement of the calm sea laughs,"}
{"book": 2, "line": 560, "key": "560", "latin": "sic tibi si finita semel primordia quaedam", "en": "so, if once you establish certain first-beginnings as finite,"}
{"book": 2, "line": 561, "key": "561", "latin": "constitues, aevom debebunt sparsa per omnem", "en": "they will have to be scattered through all time"}
{"book": 2, "line": 562, "key": "562", "latin": "disiectare aestus diversi materiai,", "en": "and tossed apart by the conflicting tides of matter,"}
{"book": 2, "line": 563, "key": "563", "latin": "numquam in concilium ut possint compulsa coire", "en": "so that they can never be driven together into union,"}
{"book": 2, "line": 564, "key": "564", "latin": "nec remorari in concilio nec crescere adaucta;", "en": "nor linger in union, nor grow by increase;"}
{"book": 2, "line": 565, "key": "565", "latin": "quorum utrumque palam fieri manifesta docet res,", "en": "and that both of these happen, the plain fact openly shows,"}
{"book": 2, "line": 566, "key": "566", "latin": "et res progigni et genitas procrescere posse.", "en": "that things are brought forth and, once born, can grow."}
{"book": 2, "line": 567, "key": "567", "latin": "esse igitur genere in quovis primordia rerum", "en": "Therefore in any kind you please the first-beginnings of things"}
{"book": 2, "line": 568, "key": "568", "latin": "infinita palam est, unde omnia suppeditantur.", "en": "are infinite, that is plain, from which all things are furnished."}
{"book": 2, "line": 569, "key": "569", "latin": "Nec superare queunt motus itaque exitiales", "en": "And so neither can the motions of destruction prevail"}
{"book": 2, "line": 570, "key": "570", "latin": "perpetuo neque in aeternum sepelire salutem,", "en": "forever, nor bury safety for eternity,"}
{"book": 2, "line": 571, "key": "571", "latin": "nec porro rerum genitales auctificique", "en": "nor again can the motions that beget and increase things"}
{"book": 2, "line": 572, "key": "572", "latin": "motus perpetuo possunt servare creata.", "en": "keep forever what they have created."}
{"book": 2, "line": 573, "key": "573", "latin": "sic aequo geritur certamine principiorum", "en": "So in an equal struggle of the beginnings is waged"}
{"book": 2, "line": 574, "key": "574", "latin": "ex infinito contractum tempore bellum.", "en": "a war entered on from infinite time."}
{"book": 2, "line": 575, "key": "575", "latin": "nunc hic nunc illic superant vitalia rerum", "en": "Now here, now there the life-giving powers of things conquer"}
{"book": 2, "line": 576, "key": "576", "latin": "et superantur item. miscetur funere vagor,", "en": "and are conquered in turn. With the funeral is mixed the wail"}
{"book": 2, "line": 577, "key": "577", "latin": "quem pueri tollunt visentis luminis oras;", "en": "that infants raise as they look on the shores of light;"}
{"book": 2, "line": 578, "key": "578", "latin": "nec nox ulla diem neque noctem aurora secutast,", "en": "and no night has followed day, no dawn the night,"}
{"book": 2, "line": 579, "key": "579", "latin": "quae non audierit mixtos vagitibus aegris", "en": "that has not heard, mixed with the sick wailing of infants,"}
{"book": 2, "line": 580, "key": "580", "latin": "ploratus, mortis comites et funeris atri.", "en": "the lamentations that attend on death and the black funeral."}
{"book": 2, "line": 581, "key": "581", "latin": "Illud in his obsignatum quoque rebus habere", "en": "This too it is fitting, in these matters, to keep sealed up"}
{"book": 2, "line": 582, "key": "582", "latin": "convenit et memori mandatum mente tenere,", "en": "and to hold, entrusted to a mind that remembers:"}
{"book": 2, "line": 583, "key": "583", "latin": "nil esse, in promptu quorum natura videtur,", "en": "that there is nothing whose nature is seen plainly before us"}
{"book": 2, "line": 584, "key": "584", "latin": "quod genere ex uno consistat principiorum,", "en": "that consists of one kind of beginnings alone,"}
{"book": 2, "line": 585, "key": "585", "latin": "nec quicquam quod non permixto semine constet.", "en": "nothing that is not made of mingled seed."}
{"book": 2, "line": 586, "key": "586", "latin": "et quod cumque magis vis multas possidet in se", "en": "And whatever possesses more forces in itself"}
{"book": 2, "line": 587, "key": "587", "latin": "atque potestates, ita plurima principiorum", "en": "and more powers, the more it shows that it holds the most kinds"}
{"book": 2, "line": 588, "key": "588", "latin": "in sese genera ac varias docet esse figuras.", "en": "of beginnings in itself, and the most varied shapes."}
{"book": 2, "line": 589, "key": "589", "latin": "Principio tellus habet in se corpora prima,", "en": "First of all, the earth holds in itself first bodies"}
{"book": 2, "line": 590, "key": "590", "latin": "unde mare inmensum volventes frigora fontes", "en": "from which springs, rolling out their coolness, constantly renew"}
{"book": 2, "line": 591, "key": "591", "latin": "adsidue renovent, habet ignes unde oriantur;", "en": "the immeasurable sea; it holds those from which fires rise;"}
{"book": 2, "line": 592, "key": "592", "latin": "nam multis succensa locis ardent sola terrae,", "en": "for in many places the ground of the earth is kindled and burns,"}
{"book": 2, "line": 593, "key": "593", "latin": "ex imis vero furit ignibus impetus Aetnae.", "en": "and from its depths the onrush of Etna rages with fire."}
{"book": 2, "line": 594, "key": "594", "latin": "tum porro nitidas fruges arbustaque laeta", "en": "Then further, shining crops and glad orchards"}
{"book": 2, "line": 595, "key": "595", "latin": "gentibus humanis habet unde extollere possit,", "en": "it has the means to raise up for the races of men,"}
{"book": 2, "line": 596, "key": "596", "latin": "unde etiam fluvios frondes et pabula laeta", "en": "and the means to offer rivers, leaves, and glad pastures"}
{"book": 2, "line": 597, "key": "597", "latin": "montivago generi possit praebere ferarum.", "en": "to the mountain-roaming race of wild beasts."}
{"book": 2, "line": 598, "key": "598", "latin": "quare magna deum mater materque ferarum", "en": "Therefore the great mother of the gods, and mother of wild beasts,"}
{"book": 2, "line": 599, "key": "599", "latin": "et nostri genetrix haec dicta est corporis una.", "en": "and begetter of our body, she alone has been called."}
{"book": 2, "line": 600, "key": "600", "latin": "Hanc veteres Graium docti cecinere poetae", "en": "Of her the learned poets of the Greeks of old have sung"}
{"book": 2, "line": 601, "key": "601", "latin": "sedibus in curru biiugos agitare leones,", "en": "that, seated in a chariot, she drives a yoke of lions,"}
{"book": 2, "line": 602, "key": "602", "latin": "aeris in spatio magnam pendere docentes", "en": "teaching by this that the great earth hangs in the space"}
{"book": 2, "line": 603, "key": "603", "latin": "tellurem neque posse in terra sistere terram.", "en": "of air, and that earth cannot rest upon earth."}
{"book": 2, "line": 604, "key": "604", "latin": "adiunxere feras, quia quamvis effera proles", "en": "They yoked wild beasts to her because offspring, however wild,"}
{"book": 2, "line": 605, "key": "605", "latin": "officiis debet molliri victa parentum.", "en": "must be softened, won over by the kindnesses of parents."}
{"book": 2, "line": 606, "key": "606", "latin": "muralique caput summum cinxere corona,", "en": "And they bound the top of her head with a crown of walls,"}
{"book": 2, "line": 607, "key": "607", "latin": "eximiis munita locis quia sustinet urbes.", "en": "because, fortified in choice places, she bears up cities."}
{"book": 2, "line": 608, "key": "608", "latin": "quo nunc insigni per magnas praedita terras", "en": "Adorned now with this emblem, through the great lands"}
{"book": 2, "line": 609, "key": "609", "latin": "horrifice fertur divinae matris imago.", "en": "the image of the divine mother is carried, inspiring dread."}
{"book": 2, "line": 610, "key": "610", "latin": "hanc variae gentes antiquo more sacrorum", "en": "Her the various peoples, by the ancient custom of their rites,"}
{"book": 2, "line": 611, "key": "611", "latin": "Idaeam vocitant matrem Phrygiasque catervas", "en": "call the Idaean Mother, and give her bands of Phrygians"}
{"book": 2, "line": 612, "key": "612", "latin": "dant comites, quia primum ex illis finibus edunt", "en": "as her companions, because from those regions first, they say,"}
{"book": 2, "line": 613, "key": "613", "latin": "per terrarum orbes fruges coepisse creari.", "en": "crops began to be created through the circles of the earth."}
{"book": 2, "line": 614, "key": "614", "latin": "Gallos attribuunt, quia, numen qui violarint", "en": "They assign her Galli, because, of those who have outraged"}
{"book": 2, "line": 615, "key": "615", "latin": "Matris et ingrati genitoribus inventi sint,", "en": "the Mother's power and been found ungrateful to their parents,"}
{"book": 2, "line": 616, "key": "616", "latin": "significare volunt indignos esse putandos,", "en": "they wish to signify that they must be thought unworthy"}
{"book": 2, "line": 617, "key": "617", "latin": "vivam progeniem qui in oras luminis edant.", "en": "to bring forth living offspring into the shores of light."}
{"book": 2, "line": 618, "key": "618", "latin": "tympana tenta tonant palmis et cymbala circum", "en": "Taut drums thunder under their palms, and the hollow cymbals"}
{"book": 2, "line": 619, "key": "619", "latin": "concava, raucisonoque minantur cornua cantu,", "en": "all around, and horns threaten with harsh-sounding song,"}
{"book": 2, "line": 620, "key": "620", "latin": "et Phrygio stimulat numero cava tibia mentis,", "en": "and the hollow pipe goads their minds with Phrygian measure,"}
{"book": 2, "line": 621, "key": "621", "latin": "telaque praeportant, violenti signa furoris,", "en": "and they carry weapons before them, signs of violent frenzy,"}
{"book": 2, "line": 622, "key": "622", "latin": "ingratos animos atque impia pectora volgi", "en": "so that the ungrateful minds and impious hearts of the crowd"}
{"book": 2, "line": 623, "key": "623", "latin": "conterrere metu quae possint numine divae.", "en": "may be terrified with fear by the goddess's power."}
{"book": 2, "line": 624, "key": "624", "latin": "ergo cum primum magnas invecta per urbis", "en": "And so, as soon as she is carried in through great cities"}
{"book": 2, "line": 625, "key": "625", "latin": "munificat tacita mortalis muta salute,", "en": "and silently enriches mortals with a wordless blessing,"}
{"book": 2, "line": 626, "key": "626", "latin": "aere atque argento sternunt iter omne viarum", "en": "they strew the whole road of her way with bronze and silver,"}
{"book": 2, "line": 627, "key": "627", "latin": "largifica stipe ditantes ninguntque rosarum", "en": "enriching it with bountiful alms, and snow down rose"}
{"book": 2, "line": 628, "key": "628", "latin": "floribus umbrantes matrem comitumque catervam.", "en": "blossoms, shading the mother and the band of her companions."}
{"book": 2, "line": 629, "key": "629", "latin": "hic armata manus, Curetas nomine Grai", "en": "Here an armed troop, whom the Greeks speak of by the name"}
{"book": 2, "line": 630, "key": "630", "latin": "quos memorant, Phrygias inter si forte catervas", "en": "of Curetes, when they happen to sport among the Phrygian bands"}
{"book": 2, "line": 631, "key": "631", "latin": "ludunt in numerumque exultant sanguine laeti", "en": "and leap in measure, glad of blood,"}
{"book": 2, "line": 632, "key": "632", "latin": "terrificas capitum quatientes numine cristas,", "en": "shaking the terrifying crests on their heads with their nodding,"}
{"book": 2, "line": 633, "key": "633", "latin": "Dictaeos referunt Curetas, qui Iovis illum", "en": "recall the Dictaean Curetes, who are said once to have hidden"}
{"book": 2, "line": 634, "key": "634", "latin": "vagitum in Creta quondam occultasse feruntur,", "en": "that famous wailing of Jupiter in Crete,"}
{"book": 2, "line": 635, "key": "635", "latin": "cum pueri circum puerum pernice chorea", "en": "when, boys around the boy, in their nimble dance,"}
{"book": 2, "line": 636, "key": "636", "latin": "armat et in numerum pernice chorea", "en": "armed and in measure in their nimble dance"}
{"book": 2, "line": 637, "key": "637", "latin": "armati in numerum pulsarent aeribus aera,", "en": "armed, in measure, they beat bronze upon bronze,"}
{"book": 2, "line": 638, "key": "638", "latin": "ne Saturnus eum malis mandaret adeptus", "en": "so that Saturn might not catch him and give him to his jaws"}
{"book": 2, "line": 639, "key": "639", "latin": "aeternumque daret matri sub pectore volnus.", "en": "and deal the Mother an eternal wound beneath her breast."}
{"book": 2, "line": 640, "key": "640", "latin": "propterea magnam armati matrem comitantur,", "en": "For this reason they attend the great mother armed,"}
{"book": 2, "line": 641, "key": "641", "latin": "aut quia significant divam praedicere ut armis", "en": "or else because they signify that the goddess proclaims that with arms"}
{"book": 2, "line": 642, "key": "642", "latin": "ac virtute velint patriam defendere terram", "en": "and courage men should be willing to defend their native land"}
{"book": 2, "line": 643, "key": "643", "latin": "praesidioque parent decorique parentibus esse.", "en": "and make ready to be a protection and an honor to their parents."}
{"book": 2, "line": 644, "key": "644", "latin": "quae bene et eximie quamvis disposta ferantur,", "en": "These things, however well and excellently they are set out,"}
{"book": 2, "line": 645, "key": "645", "latin": "longe sunt tamen a vera ratione repulsa.", "en": "are nonetheless driven far from true reasoning."}
{"book": 2, "line": 646, "key": "646", "latin": "omnis enim per se divom natura necessest", "en": "For the whole nature of the gods must, of itself, by necessity"}
{"book": 2, "line": 647, "key": "647", "latin": "inmortali aevo summa cum pace fruatur", "en": "enjoy immortal life in utmost peace,"}
{"book": 2, "line": 648, "key": "648", "latin": "semota ab nostris rebus seiunctaque longe;", "en": "removed from our affairs and separated far away;"}
{"book": 2, "line": 649, "key": "649", "latin": "nam privata dolore omni, privata periclis,", "en": "for free from every pain, free from dangers,"}
{"book": 2, "line": 650, "key": "650", "latin": "ipsa suis pollens opibus, nihil indiga nostri,", "en": "strong in its own resources, needing nothing of ours,"}
{"book": 2, "line": 651, "key": "651", "latin": "nec bene promeritis capitur neque tangitur ira.", "en": "it is neither won by services nor touched by anger."}
{"book": 2, "line": 652, "key": "652", "latin": "terra quidem vero caret omni tempore sensu,", "en": "The earth, indeed, is at all times without sense,"}
{"book": 2, "line": 653, "key": "653", "latin": "et quia multarum potitur primordia rerum,", "en": "and because it possesses the first-beginnings of many things,"}
{"book": 2, "line": 654, "key": "654", "latin": "multa modis multis effert in lumina solis.", "en": "it brings forth many in many ways into the light of the sun."}
{"book": 2, "line": 655, "key": "655", "latin": "hic siquis mare Neptunum Cereremque vocare", "en": "Here, if anyone resolves to call the sea Neptune, and to call"}
{"book": 2, "line": 656, "key": "656", "latin": "constituet fruges et Bacchi nomine abuti", "en": "the crops Ceres, and would rather misuse the name of Bacchus"}
{"book": 2, "line": 657, "key": "657", "latin": "mavolt quam laticis proprium proferre vocamen,", "en": "than speak the proper word for that liquor,"}
{"book": 2, "line": 658, "key": "658", "latin": "concedamus ut hic terrarum dictitet orbem", "en": "let us grant that he may keep declaring the round of the earth"}
{"book": 2, "line": 659, "key": "659", "latin": "esse deum matrem, dum vera re tamen ipse", "en": "to be the mother of the gods, if only in truth he himself"}
{"book": 2, "line": 680, "key": "680", "latin": "religione animum turpi contingere parcat.", "en": "refrains from tainting his mind with foul religion."}
{"book": 2, "line": 660, "key": "660", "latin": "Saepe itaque ex uno tondentes gramina campo", "en": "Thus often, cropping grass from a single field,"}
{"book": 2, "line": 661, "key": "661", "latin": "lanigerae pecudes et equorum duellica proles", "en": "wool-bearing flocks and the warlike offspring of horses"}
{"book": 2, "line": 662, "key": "662", "latin": "buceriaeque greges eodem sub tegmine caeli", "en": "and horned herds, beneath the same covering of sky,"}
{"book": 2, "line": 663, "key": "663", "latin": "ex unoque sitim sedantes flumine aquai", "en": "quenching their thirst from a single stream of water,"}
{"book": 2, "line": 664, "key": "664", "latin": "dissimili vivont specie retinentque parentum", "en": "live unlike in appearance, and keep their parents'"}
{"book": 2, "line": 665, "key": "665", "latin": "naturam et mores generatim quaeque imitantur.", "en": "nature, and each, kind by kind, copies their ways."}
{"book": 2, "line": 666, "key": "666", "latin": "tanta est in quovis genere herbae materiai", "en": "So great in any kind of grass is the unlike order"}
{"book": 2, "line": 667, "key": "667", "latin": "dissimilis ratio, tanta est in flumine quoque.", "en": "of matter, so great in any river too."}
{"book": 2, "line": 668, "key": "668", "latin": "Hinc porro quamvis animantem ex omnibus unam", "en": "Again, any one living creature, whichever of them all,"}
{"book": 2, "line": 669, "key": "669", "latin": "ossa cruor venae calor umor viscera nervi", "en": "bones, blood, veins, heat, moisture, flesh, and sinews"}
{"book": 2, "line": 670, "key": "670", "latin": "constituunt, quae sunt porro distantia longe,", "en": "make up, which are again far distant from one another,"}
{"book": 2, "line": 671, "key": "671", "latin": "dissimili perfecta figura principiorum.", "en": "formed of unlike shapes of beginnings."}
{"book": 2, "line": 672, "key": "672", "latin": "Tum porro quae cumque igni flammata cremantur.", "en": "Then further, all things that are set aflame by fire and burn,"}
{"book": 2, "line": 673, "key": "673", "latin": "si nil praeterea, tamen haec in corpore tradunt,", "en": "if nothing else, still carry these in their body:"}
{"book": 2, "line": 674, "key": "674", "latin": "unde ignem iacere et lumen submittere possint", "en": "the means by which they can throw out fire and send up light,"}
{"book": 2, "line": 675, "key": "675", "latin": "scintillasque agere ac late differre favillam.", "en": "and drive off sparks and scatter ash far and wide."}
{"book": 2, "line": 676, "key": "676", "latin": "cetera consimili mentis ratione peragrans", "en": "Going through the rest by a like reasoning of mind,"}
{"book": 2, "line": 677, "key": "677", "latin": "invenies igitur multarum semina rerum", "en": "you will therefore find that they hide the seeds of many things"}
{"book": 2, "line": 678, "key": "678", "latin": "corpore celare et varias cohibere figuras.", "en": "in their body, and contain varied shapes."}
{"book": 2, "line": 679, "key": "679", "latin": "Denique multa vides, quibus et color et sapor una", "en": "Finally, you see many things in which color and taste together"}
{"book": 2, "line": 681, "key": "681", "latin": "reddita sunt cum odore in primis pleraque poma.", "en": "are given along with smell; first of all, most fruits."}
{"book": 2, "line": 682, "key": "682", "latin": "haec igitur variis debent constare figuris;", "en": "These, therefore, must consist of varied shapes;"}
{"book": 2, "line": 683, "key": "683", "latin": "nidor enim penetrat qua fucus non it in artus,", "en": "for smell gets into our limbs where color does not go,"}
{"book": 2, "line": 684, "key": "684", "latin": "fucus item sorsum, sorsum sapor insinuatur", "en": "color, likewise, apart, and taste apart, works its way"}
{"book": 2, "line": 685, "key": "685", "latin": "sensibus; ut noscas primis differre figuris.", "en": "into our senses; so you may know they differ in their first shapes."}
{"book": 2, "line": 686, "key": "686", "latin": "dissimiles igitur formae glomeramen in unum", "en": "Therefore unlike forms come together into one mass,"}
{"book": 2, "line": 687, "key": "687", "latin": "conveniunt et res permixto semine constant.", "en": "and things are made up out of mingled seed."}
{"book": 2, "line": 688, "key": "688", "latin": "Quin etiam passim nostris in versibus ipsis", "en": "Indeed, everywhere in these very verses of ours"}
{"book": 2, "line": 689, "key": "689", "latin": "multa elementa vides multis communia verbis,", "en": "you see many elements common to many words,"}
{"book": 2, "line": 690, "key": "690", "latin": "cum tamen inter se versus ac verba necesse est", "en": "though you must still admit that verses and words"}
{"book": 2, "line": 691, "key": "691", "latin": "confiteare alia ex aliis constare elementis;", "en": "are made, one and another, from different elements;"}
{"book": 2, "line": 692, "key": "692", "latin": "non quo multa parum communis littera currat", "en": "not because few letters run in common among them,"}
{"book": 2, "line": 693, "key": "693", "latin": "aut nulla inter se duo sint ex omnibus isdem,", "en": "or no two are made out of letters entirely the same,"}
{"book": 2, "line": 694, "key": "694", "latin": "sed quia non volgo paria omnibus omnia constant.", "en": "but because, as a rule, not all are alike to all."}
{"book": 2, "line": 695, "key": "695", "latin": "sic aliis in rebus item communia multa", "en": "So likewise in other things, since many are common"}
{"book": 2, "line": 696, "key": "696", "latin": "multarum rerum cum sint, primordia rerum", "en": "to many things, the first-beginnings of things"}
{"book": 2, "line": 697, "key": "697", "latin": "dissimili tamen inter se consistere summa", "en": "can nonetheless make up, among themselves, unlike wholes;"}
{"book": 2, "line": 698, "key": "698", "latin": "possunt; ut merito ex aliis constare feratur", "en": "so that it may rightly be said that the human race"}
{"book": 2, "line": 699, "key": "699", "latin": "humanum genus et fruges arbustaque laeta.", "en": "and crops and glad orchards are made of different things."}
{"book": 2, "line": 700, "key": "700", "latin": "Nec tamen omnimodis conecti posse putandum est", "en": "Yet we must not think that all things can be joined"}
{"book": 2, "line": 701, "key": "701", "latin": "omnia; nam volgo fieri portenta videres,", "en": "in every way; for you would see monsters everywhere come to be,"}
{"book": 2, "line": 702, "key": "702", "latin": "semiferas hominum species existere et altos", "en": "forms half beast, half man spring up, and tall"}
{"book": 2, "line": 703, "key": "703", "latin": "inter dum ramos egigni corpore vivo", "en": "branches at times put forth from a living body,"}
{"book": 2, "line": 704, "key": "704", "latin": "multaque conecti terrestria membra marinis,", "en": "and many limbs of land creatures joined to those of the sea,"}
{"book": 2, "line": 705, "key": "705", "latin": "tum flammam taetro spirantis ore Chimaeras", "en": "and then Chimaeras, breathing flame from their foul mouths,"}
{"book": 2, "line": 706, "key": "706", "latin": "pascere naturam per terras omniparentis.", "en": "and nature feeding them across the all-mothering lands."}
{"book": 2, "line": 707, "key": "707", "latin": "quorum nil fieri manifestum est, omnia quando", "en": "It is plain that none of this happens, since all things"}
{"book": 2, "line": 708, "key": "708", "latin": "seminibus certis certa genetrice creata", "en": "created from fixed seeds and by a fixed mother,"}
{"book": 2, "line": 709, "key": "709", "latin": "conservare genus crescentia posse videmus.", "en": "can, we see, preserve their kind as they grow."}
{"book": 2, "line": 710, "key": "710", "latin": "scilicet id certa fieri ratione necessust.", "en": "Clearly this must come about by a fixed principle."}
{"book": 2, "line": 711, "key": "711", "latin": "nam sua cuique cibis ex omnibus intus in artus", "en": "For to each, out of all its foods, its own bodies pass"}
{"book": 2, "line": 712, "key": "712", "latin": "corpora discedunt conexaque convenientis", "en": "within, into the limbs, and, once joined, produce"}
{"book": 2, "line": 713, "key": "713", "latin": "efficiunt motus; at contra aliena videmus", "en": "the fitting motions; but against this we see nature"}
{"book": 2, "line": 714, "key": "714", "latin": "reicere in terras naturam, multaque caecis", "en": "cast out onto the earth what is alien, and many things, in unseen"}
{"book": 2, "line": 715, "key": "715", "latin": "corporibus fugiunt e corpore percita plagis,", "en": "bodies, flee out of the body, driven by blows,"}
{"book": 2, "line": 716, "key": "716", "latin": "quae neque conecti quoquam potuere neque intus", "en": "which could neither be joined anywhere nor, within,"}
{"book": 2, "line": 717, "key": "717", "latin": "vitalis motus consentire atque imitari.", "en": "feel with the vital motions and imitate them."}
{"book": 2, "line": 718, "key": "718", "latin": "sed ne forte putes animalia sola teneri", "en": "But lest you think that only living things are held"}
{"book": 2, "line": 719, "key": "719", "latin": "legibus his, quaedam ratio res terminat omnis", "en": "by these laws, a certain principle bounds all things."}
{"book": 2, "line": 720, "key": "720", "latin": "nam vel uti tota natura dissimiles sunt", "en": "For just as things begotten are unlike one another"}
{"book": 2, "line": 721, "key": "721", "latin": "inter se genitae res quaeque, ita quamque necessest", "en": "in their whole nature, each of them, so each must"}
{"book": 2, "line": 722, "key": "722", "latin": "dissimili constare figura principiorum;", "en": "be made of unlike shapes of beginnings;"}
{"book": 2, "line": 723, "key": "723", "latin": "non quo multa parum simili sint praedita forma,", "en": "not that few are endowed with a like form,"}
{"book": 2, "line": 724, "key": "724", "latin": "sed quia non volgo paria omnibus omnia constant.", "en": "but because, as a rule, not all are alike to all."}
{"book": 2, "line": 725, "key": "725", "latin": "semina cum porro distent, differre necessust", "en": "Further, since the seeds differ, there must be differences in"}
{"book": 2, "line": 726, "key": "726", "latin": "intervalla vias conexus pondera plagas", "en": "intervals, paths, connections, weights, blows,"}
{"book": 2, "line": 727, "key": "727", "latin": "concursus motus; quae non animalia solum", "en": "collisions, motions; which not only divide living bodies"}
{"book": 2, "line": 728, "key": "728", "latin": "corpora seiungunt, sed terras ac mare totum", "en": "from one another, but keep the lands and the whole sea"}
{"book": 2, "line": 729, "key": "729", "latin": "secernunt caelumque a terris omne retentant.", "en": "apart, and hold back the whole heaven from the lands."}
{"book": 2, "line": 730, "key": "730", "latin": "Nunc age dicta meo dulci quaesita labore", "en": "Come now, take in these words, sought out by my sweet labor,"}
{"book": 2, "line": 731, "key": "731", "latin": "percipe, ne forte haec albis ex alba rearis", "en": "so that you do not by chance suppose the white things are from white"}
{"book": 2, "line": 732, "key": "732", "latin": "principiis esse, ante oculos quae candida cernis,", "en": "beginnings, the things you see shining before your eyes,"}
{"book": 2, "line": 733, "key": "733", "latin": "aut ea quae nigrant nigro de semine nata;", "en": "or that the things that are black are born of black seed;"}
{"book": 2, "line": 734, "key": "734", "latin": "nive alium quemvis quae sunt inbuta colorem,", "en": "or that whatever is steeped in any other color"}
{"book": 2, "line": 735, "key": "735", "latin": "propterea gerere hunc credas, quod materiai", "en": "bears it because the bodies of matter"}
{"book": 2, "line": 736, "key": "736", "latin": "corpora consimili sint eius tincta colore;", "en": "are dyed with a color just like its own;"}
{"book": 2, "line": 737, "key": "737", "latin": "nullus enim color est omnino materiai", "en": "for the bodies of matter have no color"}
{"book": 2, "line": 738, "key": "738", "latin": "corporibus, neque par rebus neque denique dispar.", "en": "at all, neither like things nor, finally, unlike them."}
{"book": 2, "line": 739, "key": "739", "latin": "in quae corpora si nullus tibi forte videtur", "en": "And if it seems to you perhaps that upon these bodies no casting"}
{"book": 2, "line": 740, "key": "740", "latin": "posse animi iniectus fieri, procul avius erras.", "en": "of the mind can be made, you wander far out of the way."}
{"book": 2, "line": 741, "key": "741", "latin": "nam cum caecigeni, solis qui lumina numquam", "en": "For since the blind from birth, who have never looked upon"}
{"book": 2, "line": 742, "key": "742", "latin": "dispexere, tamen cognoscant corpora tactu", "en": "the light of the sun, still come to know bodies by touch"}
{"book": 2, "line": 743, "key": "743", "latin": "ex ineunte aevo nullo coniuncta colore,", "en": "that from the beginning of life were joined with no color,"}
{"book": 2, "line": 744, "key": "744", "latin": "scire licet nostrae quoque menti corpora posse", "en": "you may know that bodies can also come into the notice"}
{"book": 2, "line": 745, "key": "745", "latin": "vorti in notitiam nullo circum lita fuco.", "en": "of our mind, though smeared about with no dye."}
{"book": 2, "line": 746, "key": "746", "latin": "denique nos ipsi caecis quaecumque tenebris", "en": "Finally, whatever we ourselves touch in blind darkness"}
{"book": 2, "line": 747, "key": "747", "latin": "tangimus, haud ullo sentimus tincta colore.", "en": "we do not perceive as dyed with any color."}
{"book": 2, "line": 748, "key": "748", "latin": "Quod quoniam vinco fieri, nunc esse docebo.", "en": "Since I prove that this can be, I shall now show that it is so."}
{"book": 2, "line": 749, "key": "749", "latin": "omnis enim color omnino mutatur in omnis;", "en": "For every color changes, all of it, into every other;"}
{"book": 2, "line": 750, "key": "750", "latin": "quod facere haud ullo debent primordia pacto;", "en": "this the first-beginnings must by no means do;"}
{"book": 2, "line": 751, "key": "751", "latin": "immutabile enim quiddam superare necessest,", "en": "for something unchangeable must survive,"}
{"book": 2, "line": 752, "key": "752", "latin": "ne res ad nihilum redigantur funditus omnes;", "en": "so that things are not all brought back utterly to nothing;"}
{"book": 2, "line": 753, "key": "753", "latin": "nam quod cumque suis mutatum finibus exit,", "en": "for whatever is changed and passes out of its own bounds,"}
{"book": 2, "line": 754, "key": "754", "latin": "continuo hoc mors est illius quod fuit ante.", "en": "this at once is the death of what it was before."}
{"book": 2, "line": 755, "key": "755", "latin": "proinde colore cave contingas semina rerum,", "en": "Therefore take care not to touch the seeds of things with color,"}
{"book": 2, "line": 756, "key": "756", "latin": "ne tibi res redeant ad nihilum funditus omnes.", "en": "so that all things do not return utterly to nothing for you."}
{"book": 2, "line": 757, "key": "757", "latin": "Praeterea si nulla coloris principiis est", "en": "Further, if no nature of color has been given"}
{"book": 2, "line": 758, "key": "758", "latin": "reddita natura et variis sunt praedita formis,", "en": "to the beginnings, and they are endowed with various forms,"}
{"book": 2, "line": 759, "key": "759", "latin": "e quibus omnigenus gignunt variantque colores,", "en": "from which they beget colors of every kind and vary them,"}
{"book": 2, "line": 760, "key": "760", "latin": "propterea magni quod refert, semina quaeque", "en": "therefore, since it matters greatly for each of the seeds"}
{"book": 2, "line": 761, "key": "761", "latin": "cum quibus et quali positura contineantur", "en": "with what and in what position they are held together,"}
{"book": 2, "line": 762, "key": "762", "latin": "et quos inter se dent motus accipiantque,", "en": "and what motions they give and receive among themselves,"}
{"book": 2, "line": 763, "key": "763", "latin": "perfacile extemplo rationem reddere possis,", "en": "at once you could most easily give the reason"}
{"book": 2, "line": 764, "key": "764", "latin": "cur ea quae nigro fuerint paulo ante colore,", "en": "why things that were of a black color a little before"}
{"book": 2, "line": 765, "key": "765", "latin": "marmoreo fieri possint candore repente,", "en": "can suddenly become of a marble whiteness,"}
{"book": 2, "line": 766, "key": "766", "latin": "ut mare, cum magni commorunt aequora venti,", "en": "as the sea, when great winds have stirred its levels,"}
{"book": 2, "line": 767, "key": "767", "latin": "vertitur in canos candenti marmore fluctus;", "en": "is turned into white waves of shining marble;"}
{"book": 2, "line": 768, "key": "768", "latin": "dicere enim possis, nigrum quod saepe videmus,", "en": "for you could say that what we often see as black,"}
{"book": 2, "line": 769, "key": "769", "latin": "materies ubi permixta est illius et ordo", "en": "when its matter has been mixed through, and the order"}
{"book": 2, "line": 770, "key": "770", "latin": "principiis mutatus et addita demptaque quaedam,", "en": "of the beginnings changed, and certain things added and taken away,"}
{"book": 2, "line": 771, "key": "771", "latin": "continuo id fieri ut candens videatur et album.", "en": "at once comes to be seen as shining and white."}
{"book": 2, "line": 772, "key": "772", "latin": "quod si caeruleis constarent aequora ponti", "en": "But if the levels of the sea consisted of blue"}
{"book": 2, "line": 773, "key": "773", "latin": "seminibus, nullo possent albescere pacto;", "en": "seeds, they could in no way grow white;"}
{"book": 2, "line": 774, "key": "774", "latin": "nam quo cumque modo perturbes caerula quae sint,", "en": "for however you stir up things that are blue,"}
{"book": 2, "line": 775, "key": "775", "latin": "numquam in marmoreum possunt migrare colorem.", "en": "they can never pass over into the color of marble."}
{"book": 2, "line": 776, "key": "776", "latin": "sin alio atque alio sunt semina tincta colore,", "en": "But if the seeds are dyed with one color and another"}
{"book": 2, "line": 777, "key": "777", "latin": "quae maris efficiunt unum purumque nitorem,", "en": "that make the sea's one pure brightness,"}
{"book": 2, "line": 778, "key": "778", "latin": "ut saepe ex aliis formis variisque figuris", "en": "as often from other forms and various shapes"}
{"book": 2, "line": 779, "key": "779", "latin": "efficitur quiddam quadratum unaque figura,", "en": "something square and of a single shape is made,"}
{"book": 2, "line": 780, "key": "780", "latin": "conveniebat, ut in quadrato cernimus esse", "en": "it would be fitting that, as we see in the square"}
{"book": 2, "line": 781, "key": "781", "latin": "dissimiles formas, ita cernere in aequore ponti", "en": "unlike forms, so we should see in the level of the sea,"}
{"book": 2, "line": 782, "key": "782", "latin": "aut alio in quovis uno puroque nitore", "en": "or in any other single and pure brightness,"}
{"book": 2, "line": 783, "key": "783", "latin": "dissimiles longe inter se variosque colores.", "en": "colors widely unlike one another and various."}
{"book": 2, "line": 784, "key": "784", "latin": "praeterea nihil officiunt obstantque figurae", "en": "Further, unlike shapes do not hinder or stand in the way"}
{"book": 2, "line": 785, "key": "785", "latin": "dissimiles, quo quadratum minus omne sit extra;", "en": "of the whole being square on the outside;"}
{"book": 2, "line": 786, "key": "786", "latin": "at varii rerum inpediunt prohibentque colores,", "en": "but the various colors of things hinder and prevent"}
{"book": 2, "line": 787, "key": "787", "latin": "quo minus esse uno possit res tota nitore.", "en": "the whole thing from being of a single brightness."}
{"book": 2, "line": 788, "key": "788", "latin": "Tum porro quae ducit et inlicit ut tribuamus", "en": "Then again the cause that leads and lures us to assign"}
{"book": 2, "line": 789, "key": "789", "latin": "principiis rerum non numquam causa colores,", "en": "colors at times to the beginnings of things"}
{"book": 2, "line": 790, "key": "790", "latin": "occidit, ex albis quoniam non alba creantur,", "en": "falls dead, since white things are not created from white,"}
{"book": 2, "line": 791, "key": "791", "latin": "nec quae nigra cluent de nigris, sed variis ex.", "en": "nor things called black from black, but from various."}
{"book": 2, "line": 792, "key": "792", "latin": "quippe etenim multo proclivius exorientur", "en": "For indeed white things will arise much more readily"}
{"book": 2, "line": 793, "key": "793", "latin": "candida de nullo quam nigro nata colore", "en": "born of no color than of black"}
{"book": 2, "line": 794, "key": "794", "latin": "aut alio quovis, qui contra pugnet et obstet.", "en": "or of any other that fights against them and stands in the way."}
{"book": 2, "line": 795, "key": "795", "latin": "Praeterea quoniam nequeunt sine luce colores", "en": "Further, since colors cannot be without light,"}
{"book": 2, "line": 796, "key": "796", "latin": "esse neque in lucem existunt primordia rerum,", "en": "and the first-beginnings of things do not come out into the light,"}
{"book": 2, "line": 797, "key": "797", "latin": "scire licet quam sint nullo velata colore;", "en": "you may know that they are veiled with no color;"}
{"book": 2, "line": 798, "key": "798", "latin": "qualis enim caecis poterit color esse tenebris?", "en": "for what color can there be in blind darkness?"}
{"book": 2, "line": 799, "key": "799", "latin": "lumine quin ipso mutatur propterea quod", "en": "Indeed, color is changed by the light itself, according as"}
{"book": 2, "line": 800, "key": "800", "latin": "recta aut obliqua percussus luce refulget;", "en": "it shines back, struck by a straight or a slanting light;"}
{"book": 2, "line": 801, "key": "801", "latin": "pluma columbarum quo pacto in sole videtur,", "en": "as the plumage of doves is seen in the sun,"}
{"book": 2, "line": 802, "key": "802", "latin": "quae sita cervices circum collumque coronat;", "en": "the plumage that, set about the nape, crowns the neck;"}
{"book": 2, "line": 803, "key": "803", "latin": "namque alias fit uti claro sit rubra pyropo,", "en": "for at times it comes to be red with bright fire-bronze,"}
{"book": 2, "line": 804, "key": "804", "latin": "inter dum quodam sensu fit uti videatur", "en": "at times, to a certain way of seeing, it comes to seem"}
{"book": 2, "line": 805, "key": "805", "latin": "inter caeruleum viridis miscere zmaragdos.", "en": "to mingle green emeralds with the blue."}
{"book": 2, "line": 806, "key": "806", "latin": "caudaque pavonis, larga cum luce repleta est,", "en": "And the peacock's tail, when it is filled with plentiful light,"}
{"book": 2, "line": 807, "key": "807", "latin": "consimili mutat ratione obversa colores;", "en": "changes its colors by a like principle as it turns;"}
{"book": 2, "line": 808, "key": "808", "latin": "qui quoniam quodam gignuntur luminis ictu,", "en": "and since these colors are begotten by a certain stroke of light,"}
{"book": 2, "line": 809, "key": "809", "latin": "scire licet, sine eo fieri non posse putandum est.", "en": "you may know it must be thought they cannot come to be without it."}
{"book": 2, "line": 810, "key": "810", "latin": "Et quoniam plagae quoddam genus excipit in se", "en": "And since the pupil receives into itself a certain kind of blow"}
{"book": 2, "line": 811, "key": "811", "latin": "pupula, cum sentire colorem dicitur album,", "en": "when it is said to perceive the color white,"}
{"book": 2, "line": 812, "key": "812", "latin": "atque aliud porro, nigrum cum et cetera sentit,", "en": "and again another when it perceives black and the rest,"}
{"book": 2, "line": 813, "key": "813", "latin": "nec refert ea quae tangas quo forte colore", "en": "and it does not matter with what color the things you touch"}
{"book": 2, "line": 814, "key": "814", "latin": "praedita sint, verum quali magis apta figura,", "en": "may chance to be endowed, but rather with what shape they are fitted,"}
{"book": 2, "line": 815, "key": "815", "latin": "scire licet nihil principiis opus esse colore,", "en": "you may know that the beginnings have no need of color,"}
{"book": 2, "line": 816, "key": "816", "latin": "sed variis formis variantes edere tactus.", "en": "but give out various touches by their various forms."}
{"book": 2, "line": 817, "key": "817", "latin": "Praeterea quoniam non certis certa figuris", "en": "Further, since no fixed nature of color belongs to fixed"}
{"book": 2, "line": 818, "key": "818", "latin": "est natura coloris et omnia principiorum", "en": "shapes, and all the formings of the beginnings"}
{"book": 2, "line": 819, "key": "819", "latin": "formamenta queunt in quovis esse nitore,", "en": "can be in any brightness whatever,"}
{"book": 2, "line": 820, "key": "820", "latin": "cur ea quae constant ex illis non pariter sunt", "en": "why are the things composed of them not likewise"}
{"book": 2, "line": 821, "key": "821", "latin": "omnigenus perfusa coloribus in genere omni?", "en": "steeped in colors of every sort, in every kind of thing?"}
{"book": 2, "line": 822, "key": "822", "latin": "conveniebat enim corvos quoque saepe volantis", "en": "For it would be fitting that ravens too, as they fly, should often"}
{"book": 2, "line": 823, "key": "823", "latin": "ex albis album pinnis iactare colorem", "en": "throw off a white color from white feathers,"}
{"book": 2, "line": 824, "key": "824", "latin": "et nigros fieri nigro de semine cycnos", "en": "and that swans should become black from black seed,"}
{"book": 2, "line": 825, "key": "825", "latin": "aut alio quovis uno varioque colore.", "en": "or of any other color, single or varied."}
{"book": 2, "line": 826, "key": "826", "latin": "Quin etiam quanto in partes res quaeque minutas", "en": "Moreover, the more each thing is pulled apart into tiny parts,"}
{"book": 2, "line": 827, "key": "827", "latin": "distrahitur magis, hoc magis est ut cernere possis", "en": "the more it is that you can see"}
{"book": 2, "line": 828, "key": "828", "latin": "evanescere paulatim stinguique colorem;", "en": "the color fade little by little and be quenched;"}
{"book": 2, "line": 829, "key": "829", "latin": "ut fit ubi in parvas partis discerpitur austrum:", "en": "as happens when purple cloth is torn into small parts:"}
{"book": 2, "line": 830, "key": "830", "latin": "purpura poeniceusque color clarissimus multo,", "en": "the purple, and the scarlet, much the brightest of colors,"}
{"book": 2, "line": 831, "key": "831", "latin": "filatim cum distractum est, disperditur omnis;", "en": "when pulled apart thread by thread, is wholly lost;"}
{"book": 2, "line": 832, "key": "832", "latin": "noscere ut hinc possis prius omnem efflare colorem", "en": "so that from this you may learn that all their color is breathed out"}
{"book": 2, "line": 833, "key": "833", "latin": "particulas, quam discedant ad semina rerum.", "en": "by the small pieces before they part into the seeds of things."}
{"book": 2, "line": 834, "key": "834", "latin": "Postremo quoniam non omnia corpora vocem", "en": "Lastly, since you grant that not all bodies send out"}
{"book": 2, "line": 835, "key": "835", "latin": "mittere concedis neque odorem, propterea fit", "en": "a voice, nor a smell, it comes about, therefore,"}
{"book": 2, "line": 836, "key": "836", "latin": "ut non omnibus adtribuas sonitus et odores:", "en": "that you do not assign sounds and smells to all:"}
{"book": 2, "line": 837, "key": "837", "latin": "sic oculis quoniam non omnia cernere quimus,", "en": "so, since we cannot perceive all things with our eyes,"}
{"book": 2, "line": 838, "key": "838", "latin": "scire licet quaedam tam constare orba colore", "en": "you may know that some things are as bereft of color"}
{"book": 2, "line": 839, "key": "839", "latin": "quam sine odore ullo quaedam sonituque remota,", "en": "as some are without any smell and removed from sound,"}
{"book": 2, "line": 840, "key": "840", "latin": "nec minus haec animum cognoscere posse sagacem", "en": "and that the keen mind can come to know these no less"}
{"book": 2, "line": 841, "key": "841", "latin": "quam quae sunt aliis rebus privata notare.", "en": "than it can mark the things deprived of other qualities."}
{"book": 2, "line": 842, "key": "842", "latin": "Sed ne forte putes solo spoliata colore", "en": "But in case you should think that, stripped of color alone,"}
{"book": 2, "line": 843, "key": "843", "latin": "corpora prima manere, etiam secreta teporis", "en": "the first bodies remain so, they are also set apart from warmth"}
{"book": 2, "line": 844, "key": "844", "latin": "sunt ac frigoris omnino calidique vaporis,", "en": "and from cold entirely, and from burning heat;"}
{"book": 2, "line": 845, "key": "845", "latin": "et sonitu sterila et suco ieiuna feruntur,", "en": "they go barren of sound and starved of flavor,"}
{"book": 2, "line": 846, "key": "846", "latin": "nec iaciunt ullum proprium de corpore odorem.", "en": "and give off from their body no odor of their own."}
{"book": 2, "line": 847, "key": "847", "latin": "sicut amaracini blandum stactaeque liquorem", "en": "Just as, for the soothing liquor of marjoram and of myrrh"}
{"book": 2, "line": 848, "key": "848", "latin": "et nardi florem, nectar qui naribus halat,", "en": "and the flower of nard, which breathes nectar to the nostrils,"}
{"book": 2, "line": 849, "key": "849", "latin": "cum facere instituas, cum primis quaerere par est,", "en": "when you set about making them, it is right first to seek,"}
{"book": 2, "line": 850, "key": "850", "latin": "quod licet ac possis reperire, inolentis olivi", "en": "as far as you may and can find it, an odorless olive oil,"}
{"book": 2, "line": 851, "key": "851", "latin": "naturam, nullam quae mittat naribus auram,", "en": "whose nature sends out no breath at all to the nostrils,"}
{"book": 2, "line": 852, "key": "852", "latin": "quam minime ut possit mixtos in corpore odores", "en": "so that it may least of all spoil the odors mixed in its body"}
{"book": 2, "line": 853, "key": "853", "latin": "concoctosque suo contractans perdere viro,", "en": "and blended there, by touching them with its own rankness,"}
{"book": 2, "line": 854, "key": "854", "latin": "propter eandem rem debent primordia rerum", "en": "for the same reason the first-beginnings of things must"}
{"book": 2, "line": 855, "key": "855", "latin": "non adhibere suum gignundis rebus odorem", "en": "not lend their own odor to the things they beget,"}
{"book": 2, "line": 856, "key": "856", "latin": "nec sonitum, quoniam nihil ab se mittere possunt,", "en": "nor sound, since they can send out nothing from themselves,"}
{"book": 2, "line": 857, "key": "857", "latin": "nec simili ratione saporem denique quemquam", "en": "nor, on a like principle, finally, any flavor at all,"}
{"book": 2, "line": 858, "key": "858", "latin": "nec frigus neque item calidum tepidumque vaporem,", "en": "nor cold, nor likewise hot and tepid heat,"}
{"book": 2, "line": 859, "key": "859", "latin": "cetera, quae cum ita sunt tamen ut mortalia constent,", "en": "and all the rest: things which are still such as to be mortal,"}
{"book": 2, "line": 860, "key": "860", "latin": "molli lenta, fragosa putri, cava corpore raro,", "en": "pliant with soft, brittle with crumbling, hollow with porous body,"}
{"book": 2, "line": 861, "key": "861", "latin": "omnia sint a principiis seiuncta necessest,", "en": "all these must be kept apart from the beginnings,"}
{"book": 2, "line": 862, "key": "862", "latin": "inmortalia si volumus subiungere rebus", "en": "if we wish to set beneath things foundations immortal,"}
{"book": 2, "line": 863, "key": "863", "latin": "fundamenta, quibus nitatur summa salutis;", "en": "on which the whole of their safety may rest;"}
{"book": 2, "line": 864, "key": "864", "latin": "ne tibi res redeant ad nihilum funditus omnes.", "en": "so that all things do not return utterly to nothing for you."}
{"book": 2, "line": 865, "key": "865", "latin": "Nunc ea quae sentire videmus cumque necessest", "en": "Now all the things we see to have sense, whatever they are,"}
{"book": 2, "line": 866, "key": "866", "latin": "ex insensilibus tamen omnia confiteare", "en": "you must confess are, for all that, made up of senseless"}
{"book": 2, "line": 867, "key": "867", "latin": "principiis constare. neque id manufesta refutant", "en": "beginnings. Nor do plain facts refute this"}
{"book": 2, "line": 868, "key": "868", "latin": "nec contra pugnant, in promptu cognita quae sunt,", "en": "or fight against it, the things known and ready to hand;"}
{"book": 2, "line": 869, "key": "869", "latin": "sed magis ipsa manu ducunt et credere cogunt", "en": "rather they themselves lead us by the hand and compel belief"}
{"book": 2, "line": 870, "key": "870", "latin": "ex insensilibus, quod dico, animalia gigni.", "en": "that, as I say, living creatures are born from senseless things."}
{"book": 2, "line": 871, "key": "871", "latin": "quippe videre licet vivos existere vermes", "en": "Indeed, you can see living worms come forth"}
{"book": 2, "line": 872, "key": "872", "latin": "stercore de taetro, putorem cum sibi nacta est", "en": "out of foul dung, when a rottenness has come over"}
{"book": 2, "line": 873, "key": "873", "latin": "intempestivis ex imbribus umida tellus.", "en": "the sodden earth from untimely rains."}
{"book": 2, "line": 874, "key": "874", "latin": "Praeterea cunctas itidem res vertere sese.", "en": "Further, all things in like manner turn themselves into others."}
{"book": 2, "line": 875, "key": "875", "latin": "vertunt se fluvii in frondes et pabula laeta", "en": "Rivers turn themselves into leaves, and glad pastures"}
{"book": 2, "line": 876, "key": "876", "latin": "in pecudes, vertunt pecudes in corpora nostra", "en": "into cattle; cattle turn into our bodies"}
{"book": 2, "line": 877, "key": "877", "latin": "naturam, et nostro de corpore saepe ferarum", "en": "their nature, and from our body often the strength of wild beasts"}
{"book": 2, "line": 878, "key": "878", "latin": "augescunt vires et corpora pennipotentum.", "en": "grows, and the bodies of the strong-winged birds."}
{"book": 2, "line": 879, "key": "879", "latin": "ergo omnes natura cibos in corpora viva", "en": "Therefore nature turns all foods into living bodies"}
{"book": 2, "line": 880, "key": "880", "latin": "vertit et hinc sensus animantum procreat omnes,", "en": "and from them brings forth all the senses of living things,"}
{"book": 2, "line": 881, "key": "881", "latin": "non alia longe ratione atque arida ligna", "en": "on a principle not far other than that by which"}
{"book": 2, "line": 882, "key": "882", "latin": "explicat in flammas et in ignis omnia versat.", "en": "it unfolds dry logs into flames and turns them all to fire."}
{"book": 2, "line": 883, "key": "883", "latin": "iamne vides igitur magni primordia rerum", "en": "Do you see now, therefore, that for the first-beginnings of things"}
{"book": 2, "line": 884, "key": "884", "latin": "referre in quali sint ordine quaeque locata", "en": "it matters greatly in what order each is set"}
{"book": 2, "line": 885, "key": "885", "latin": "et commixta quibus dent motus accipiantque?", "en": "and mixed with what, and what motions they give and take?"}
{"book": 2, "line": 886, "key": "886", "latin": "Tum porro, quid id est, animum quod percutit, ipsum,", "en": "Then further, what is it that strikes the mind itself,"}
{"book": 2, "line": 887, "key": "887", "latin": "quod movet et varios sensus expromere cogit,", "en": "that moves it and compels it to give out various senses,"}
{"book": 2, "line": 888, "key": "888", "latin": "ex insensilibus ne credas sensile gigni?", "en": "so that you do not believe the sentient is born from the senseless?"}
{"book": 2, "line": 889, "key": "889", "latin": "ni mirum lapides et ligna et terra quod una", "en": "Surely it is that stones and wood and earth, mixed"}
{"book": 2, "line": 890, "key": "890", "latin": "mixta tamen nequeunt vitalem reddere sensum.", "en": "together, still cannot give back the sense of life."}
{"book": 2, "line": 891, "key": "891", "latin": "illud in his igitur rebus meminisse decebit,", "en": "In these matters, then, it will be fitting to remember this:"}
{"book": 2, "line": 892, "key": "892", "latin": "non ex omnibus omnino, quaecumque creant res", "en": "not from any and all things whatever that create"}
{"book": 2, "line": 893, "key": "893", "latin": "sensilia, extemplo me gigni dicere sensus,", "en": "sentient things do I say that senses are at once begotten,"}
{"book": 2, "line": 894, "key": "894", "latin": "sed magni referre ea primum quantula constent,", "en": "but that it matters greatly, first, how small are the things"}
{"book": 2, "line": 895, "key": "895", "latin": "sensile quae faciunt, et qua sint praedita forma,", "en": "that make the sentient, and with what shape they are endowed,"}
{"book": 2, "line": 896, "key": "896", "latin": "motibus ordinibus posituris denique quae sint.", "en": "and finally what they are in motions, orders, positions."}
{"book": 2, "line": 897, "key": "897", "latin": "quarum nil rerum in lignis glaebisque videmus;", "en": "Of these things we see none in logs and clods;"}
{"book": 2, "line": 898, "key": "898", "latin": "et tamen haec, cum sunt quasi putrefacta per imbres,", "en": "and yet these, when they are as it were rotted by the rains,"}
{"book": 2, "line": 899, "key": "899", "latin": "vermiculos pariunt, quia corpora materiai", "en": "give birth to little worms, because the bodies of matter,"}
{"book": 2, "line": 900, "key": "900", "latin": "antiquis ex ordinibus permota nova re", "en": "stirred from their old orders by a new event,"}
{"book": 2, "line": 901, "key": "901", "latin": "conciliantur ita ut debent animalia gigni.", "en": "are united as they must be for living things to be born."}
{"book": 2, "line": 902, "key": "902", "latin": "Deinde ex sensilibus qui sensile posse creari", "en": "Next, those who would have it that from sentient things the sentient"}
{"book": 2, "line": 903, "key": "903", "latin": "constituunt, porro ex aliis sentire sueti", "en": "can be created, and these in turn from others used to sensing,"}
{"book": 2, "line": 903, "key": "903a", "latin": "* * *", "en": "* * *"}
{"book": 2, "line": 904, "key": "904", "latin": "mollia cum faciunt; nam sensus iungitur omnis", "en": "when they make them soft; for all sense is bound up"}
{"book": 2, "line": 905, "key": "905", "latin": "visceribus nervis venis, quae cumque videmus", "en": "with flesh, sinews, veins, all of which we see"}
{"book": 2, "line": 906, "key": "906", "latin": "mollia mortali consistere corpore creta.", "en": "are soft, fashioned of mortal body."}
{"book": 2, "line": 907, "key": "907", "latin": "sed tamen esto iam posse haec aeterna manere;", "en": "But still, grant now that these can remain eternal:"}
{"book": 2, "line": 908, "key": "908", "latin": "nempe tamen debent aut sensum partis habere", "en": "surely, even so, they must either have the sense of a part"}
{"book": 2, "line": 909, "key": "909", "latin": "aut similis totis animalibus esse putari.", "en": "or be thought to be like whole living creatures."}
{"book": 2, "line": 910, "key": "910", "latin": "at nequeant per se partes sentire necesse est:", "en": "But it must be that parts cannot have sense by themselves;"}
{"book": 2, "line": 911, "key": "911", "latin": "namque animus sensus membrorum respuit omnis,", "en": "for the mind rejects all the senses of the limbs,"}
{"book": 2, "line": 912, "key": "912", "latin": "nec manus a nobis potis est secreta neque ulla", "en": "nor can a hand cut off from us, nor any"}
{"book": 2, "line": 913, "key": "913", "latin": "corporis omnino sensum pars sola tenere.", "en": "part of the body at all, hold sense alone."}
{"book": 2, "line": 914, "key": "914", "latin": "linquitur ut totis animantibus adsimulentur,", "en": "It remains that they be likened to whole living creatures,"}
{"book": 2, "line": 915, "key": "915", "latin": "vitali ut possint consentire undique sensu.", "en": "so that they can feel in concert, everywhere, with the sense of life."}
{"book": 2, "line": 916, "key": "916", "latin": "qui poterunt igitur rerum primordia dici", "en": "How then can they be called first-beginnings of things"}
{"book": 2, "line": 917, "key": "917", "latin": "et leti vitare vias, animalia cum sint,", "en": "and shun the roads of death, since they are living creatures,"}
{"book": 2, "line": 918, "key": "918", "latin": "atque animalia sint mortalibus una eademque?", "en": "and living creatures are one and the same as mortal beings?"}
{"book": 2, "line": 919, "key": "919", "latin": "quod tamen ut possint, at coetu concilioque", "en": "Yet even granting that they could, still by their meeting and union"}
{"book": 2, "line": 920, "key": "920", "latin": "nil facient praeter volgum turbamque animantum,", "en": "they will make nothing but a crowd and throng of living things,"}
{"book": 2, "line": 921, "key": "921", "latin": "scilicet ut nequeant homines armenta feraeque", "en": "just as, surely, men, herds, and wild beasts cannot"}
{"book": 2, "line": 922, "key": "922", "latin": "inter sese ullam rem gignere conveniundo.", "en": "beget any other thing among themselves by coming together."}
{"book": 2, "line": 923, "key": "923", "latin": "sic itidem quae sentimus sentire necessest.", "en": "In the same way, what we sense must itself sense."}
{"book": 2, "line": 924, "key": "924", "latin": "quod si forte suum dimittunt corpore sensum", "en": "But if perhaps they put off their own sense from their body"}
{"book": 2, "line": 925, "key": "925", "latin": "atque alium capiunt, quid opus fuit adtribui id quod", "en": "and take on another, what need was there to grant what"}
{"book": 2, "line": 926, "key": "926", "latin": "detrahitur? tum praeterea, quod fudimus ante,", "en": "is taken away? Then further, as we set out before,"}
{"book": 2, "line": 927, "key": "927", "latin": "quatinus in pullos animalis vertier ova", "en": "inasmuch as into living chicks the eggs"}
{"book": 2, "line": 928, "key": "928", "latin": "cernimus alituum vermisque effervere terra,", "en": "of birds, we see, are turned, and worms swarm out of the earth"}
{"book": 2, "line": 929, "key": "929", "latin": "intempestivos quam putor cepit ob imbris,", "en": "when rottenness has seized it after untimely rains,"}
{"book": 2, "line": 930, "key": "930", "latin": "scire licet gigni posse ex non sensibus sensus.", "en": "we may know that senses can be born from what is not sense."}
{"book": 2, "line": 931, "key": "931", "latin": "Quod si forte aliquis dicet, dum taxat oriri", "en": "But if perhaps someone says that sense can only arise"}
{"book": 2, "line": 932, "key": "932", "latin": "posse ex non sensu sensus mutabilitate,", "en": "from what is not sense by a process of change,"}
{"book": 2, "line": 933, "key": "933", "latin": "aut aliquo tamquam partu quod proditur extra,", "en": "or by a kind of birth, by which it is brought forth outward,"}
{"book": 2, "line": 934, "key": "934", "latin": "huic satis illud erit planum facere atque probare,", "en": "for him it will be enough to make clear and prove this:"}
{"book": 2, "line": 935, "key": "935", "latin": "non fieri partum nisi concilio ante coacto,", "en": "that no birth happens unless a union has first been formed,"}
{"book": 2, "line": 936, "key": "936", "latin": "nec quicquam commutari sine conciliatu.", "en": "nor does anything change without a uniting."}
{"book": 2, "line": 937, "key": "937", "latin": "Principio nequeunt ullius corporis esse", "en": "To begin with, there can be no senses of any body"}
{"book": 2, "line": 938, "key": "938", "latin": "sensus ante ipsam genitam naturam animantis,", "en": "before the nature of the living creature itself is born,"}
{"book": 2, "line": 939, "key": "939", "latin": "ni mirum quia materies disiecta tenetur", "en": "surely because the matter is held scattered"}
{"book": 2, "line": 940, "key": "940", "latin": "aere fluminibus terris terraque creatis,", "en": "in air, rivers, earth, and the things born of earth,"}
{"book": 2, "line": 941, "key": "941", "latin": "nec congressa modo vitalis convenientes", "en": "and has not, meeting, brought together in fitting manner"}
{"book": 2, "line": 942, "key": "942", "latin": "contulit inter se motus, quibus omnituentes", "en": "the vital motions among themselves, by which the all-watching"}
{"book": 2, "line": 943, "key": "943", "latin": "accensi sensus animantem quamque tuentur.", "en": "senses, kindled, watch over each living creature."}
{"book": 2, "line": 944, "key": "944", "latin": "Praeterea quamvis animantem grandior ictus,", "en": "Further, any living creature a blow too great"}
{"book": 2, "line": 945, "key": "945", "latin": "quam patitur natura, repente adfligit et omnis", "en": "for its nature to bear strikes down suddenly, and goes on"}
{"book": 2, "line": 946, "key": "946", "latin": "corporis atque animi pergit confundere sensus.", "en": "to throw into confusion all the senses of body and mind."}
{"book": 2, "line": 947, "key": "947", "latin": "dissoluuntur enim positurae principiorum", "en": "For the positions of the beginnings are dissolved,"}
{"book": 2, "line": 948, "key": "948", "latin": "et penitus motus vitales inpediuntur,", "en": "and the vital motions are hindered deep within,"}
{"book": 2, "line": 949, "key": "949", "latin": "donec materies omnis concussa per artus", "en": "until all the matter, shaken through the limbs,"}
{"book": 2, "line": 950, "key": "950", "latin": "vitalis animae nodos a corpore solvit", "en": "loosens the knots of the vital spirit from the body"}
{"book": 2, "line": 951, "key": "951", "latin": "dispersamque foras per caulas eiecit omnis;", "en": "and casts it out, scattered abroad, through all the passages;"}
{"book": 2, "line": 952, "key": "952", "latin": "nam quid praeterea facere ictum posse reamur", "en": "for what else should we think a blow can do,"}
{"book": 2, "line": 953, "key": "953", "latin": "oblatum, nisi discutere ac dissolvere quaeque?", "en": "when it is dealt, but shatter and dissolve each thing?"}
{"book": 2, "line": 954, "key": "954", "latin": "fit quoque uti soleant minus oblato acriter ictu", "en": "It happens too that, when a blow is dealt less sharply,"}
{"book": 2, "line": 955, "key": "955", "latin": "reliqui motus vitalis vincere saepe,", "en": "the vital motions that remain will often win,"}
{"book": 2, "line": 956, "key": "956", "latin": "vincere et ingentis plagae sedare tumultus", "en": "win and calm the vast tumults of the stroke,"}
{"book": 2, "line": 957, "key": "957", "latin": "inque suos quicquid rursus revocare meatus", "en": "and call each part back again into its own paths,"}
{"book": 2, "line": 958, "key": "958", "latin": "et quasi iam leti dominantem in corpore motum", "en": "and the motion of death, already, as it were, master in the body,"}
{"book": 2, "line": 959, "key": "959", "latin": "discutere ac paene amissos accendere sensus;", "en": "shake apart, and kindle the senses almost lost;"}
{"book": 2, "line": 960, "key": "960", "latin": "nam qua re potius leti iam limine ab ipso", "en": "for by what means could they rather, from death's very threshold,"}
{"book": 2, "line": 961, "key": "961", "latin": "ad vitam possint conlecta mente reverti,", "en": "gather their mind and come back to life"}
{"book": 2, "line": 962, "key": "962", "latin": "quam quo decursum prope iam siet ire et abire?", "en": "than go on and depart where their course is almost run?"}
{"book": 2, "line": 963, "key": "963", "latin": "Praeterea, quoniam dolor est, ubi materiai", "en": "Further, since pain exists when bodies of matter,"}
{"book": 2, "line": 964, "key": "964", "latin": "corpora vi quadam per viscera viva per artus", "en": "by some force, through the living flesh, through the limbs,"}
{"book": 2, "line": 965, "key": "965", "latin": "sollicitata suis trepidant in sedibus intus,", "en": "are troubled and tremble within, in their own seats,"}
{"book": 2, "line": 966, "key": "966", "latin": "inque locum quando remigrant, fit blanda voluptas,", "en": "and when they move back into place a soothing pleasure comes,"}
{"book": 2, "line": 967, "key": "967", "latin": "scire licet nullo primordia posse dolore", "en": "we may know that the first-beginnings can be assailed"}
{"book": 2, "line": 968, "key": "968", "latin": "temptari nullamque voluptatem capere ex se;", "en": "by no pain, and take no pleasure from themselves;"}
{"book": 2, "line": 969, "key": "969", "latin": "quandoquidem non sunt ex ullis principiorum", "en": "since they are not made out of any bodies of beginnings,"}
{"book": 2, "line": 970, "key": "970", "latin": "corporibus, quorum motus novitate laborent", "en": "bodies, through the novelty of whose motions they might suffer"}
{"book": 2, "line": 971, "key": "971", "latin": "aut aliquem fructum capiant dulcedinis almae.", "en": "or reap some fruit of nourishing sweetness."}
{"book": 2, "line": 972, "key": "972", "latin": "haut igitur debent esse ullo praedita sensu.", "en": "They ought not, therefore, to be endowed with any sense."}
{"book": 2, "line": 973, "key": "973", "latin": "Denique uti possint sentire animalia quaeque,", "en": "Finally, so that every living creature can feel,"}
{"book": 2, "line": 974, "key": "974", "latin": "principiis si iam est sensus tribuendus eorum,", "en": "if sense must now be granted to their beginnings,"}
{"book": 2, "line": 975, "key": "975", "latin": "quid, genus humanum propritim de quibus auctumst?", "en": "what of those that make up the human race in particular?"}
{"book": 2, "line": 976, "key": "976", "latin": "scilicet et risu tremulo concussa cachinnant", "en": "No doubt they too must shake with trembling laughter and guffaw,"}
{"book": 2, "line": 977, "key": "977", "latin": "et lacrimis spargunt rorantibus ora genasque", "en": "and sprinkle their faces and cheeks with dewy tears,"}
{"book": 2, "line": 978, "key": "978", "latin": "multaque de rerum mixtura dicere callent", "en": "and be skilled at saying much about the mixture of things,"}
{"book": 2, "line": 979, "key": "979", "latin": "et sibi proporro quae sint primordia quaerunt;", "en": "and go on to ask what their own first-beginnings are;"}
{"book": 2, "line": 980, "key": "980", "latin": "quando quidem totis mortalibus adsimulata", "en": "since, made in the likeness of whole mortals,"}
{"book": 2, "line": 981, "key": "981", "latin": "ipsa quoque ex aliis debent constare elementis,", "en": "they too in their turn must consist of other elements,"}
{"book": 2, "line": 982, "key": "982", "latin": "inde alia ex aliis, nusquam consistere ut ausis;", "en": "and those again of others, so that you never dare to stop;"}
{"book": 2, "line": 983, "key": "983", "latin": "quippe sequar, quod cumque loqui ridereque dices", "en": "for I shall press you: whatever you say can speak and laugh"}
{"book": 2, "line": 984, "key": "984", "latin": "et sapere, ex aliis eadem haec facientibus ut sit.", "en": "and be wise must be made of others that do these same things."}
{"book": 2, "line": 985, "key": "985", "latin": "quod si delira haec furiosaque cernimus esse", "en": "But if we see that this is raving and madness,"}
{"book": 2, "line": 986, "key": "986", "latin": "et ridere potest non ex ridentibus auctus,", "en": "and a man can laugh though not made of laughing things,"}
{"book": 2, "line": 987, "key": "987", "latin": "et sapere et doctis rationem reddere dictis", "en": "and be wise and give an account in learned words"}
{"book": 2, "line": 988, "key": "988", "latin": "non ex seminibus sapientibus atque disertis,", "en": "though not made of seeds that are wise and eloquent,"}
{"book": 2, "line": 989, "key": "989", "latin": "qui minus esse queant ea quae sentire videmus", "en": "why should the things we see have sense be any less able"}
{"book": 2, "line": 990, "key": "990", "latin": "seminibus permixta carentibus undique sensu?", "en": "to be of seeds mixed together that lack sense in every part?"}
{"book": 2, "line": 991, "key": "991", "latin": "Denique caelesti sumus omnes semine oriundi;", "en": "Finally, we are all sprung from heavenly seed;"}
{"book": 2, "line": 992, "key": "992", "latin": "omnibus ille idem pater est, unde alma liquentis", "en": "all have that same father, from whom the nourishing mother,"}
{"book": 2, "line": 993, "key": "993", "latin": "umoris guttas mater cum terra recepit,", "en": "earth, when she has received the liquid drops of moisture,"}
{"book": 2, "line": 994, "key": "994", "latin": "feta parit nitidas fruges arbustaque laeta", "en": "teems and bears the shining grain and the glad trees"}
{"book": 2, "line": 995, "key": "995", "latin": "et genus humanum, parit omnia saecla ferarum,", "en": "and the human race, bears all the generations of wild beasts,"}
{"book": 2, "line": 996, "key": "996", "latin": "pabula cum praebet, quibus omnes corpora pascunt", "en": "since she provides the pastures on which all feed their bodies"}
{"book": 2, "line": 997, "key": "997", "latin": "et dulcem ducunt vitam prolemque propagant;", "en": "and lead a sweet life and propagate their offspring;"}
{"book": 2, "line": 998, "key": "998", "latin": "qua propter merito maternum nomen adepta est.", "en": "therefore she has rightly gained the name of mother."}
{"book": 2, "line": 999, "key": "999", "latin": "cedit item retro, de terra quod fuit ante,", "en": "Likewise what came from the earth before goes back"}
{"book": 2, "line": 1000, "key": "1000", "latin": "in terras, et quod missumst ex aetheris oris,", "en": "into the earth, and what was sent from the shores of the ether"}
{"book": 2, "line": 1001, "key": "1001", "latin": "id rursum caeli rellatum templa receptant.", "en": "is carried back again and received by the precincts of heaven."}
{"book": 2, "line": 1002, "key": "1002", "latin": "nec sic interemit mors res ut materiai", "en": "Nor does death so destroy things as to annihilate"}
{"book": 2, "line": 1003, "key": "1003", "latin": "corpora conficiat, sed coetum dissupat ollis;", "en": "the bodies of matter, but it scatters their union;"}
{"book": 2, "line": 1004, "key": "1004", "latin": "inde aliis aliud coniungit et efficit, omnis", "en": "then it joins one to another and brings it about that all"}
{"book": 2, "line": 1005, "key": "1005", "latin": "res ut convertant formas mutentque colores", "en": "things change their shapes and alter their colors"}
{"book": 2, "line": 1006, "key": "1006", "latin": "et capiant sensus et puncto tempore reddant;", "en": "and take on sense and in an instant give it up;"}
{"book": 2, "line": 1007, "key": "1007", "latin": "ut noscas referre earum primordia rerum", "en": "so that you may know it matters, for the first-beginnings of things,"}
{"book": 2, "line": 1008, "key": "1008", "latin": "cum quibus et quali positura contineantur", "en": "with what and in what position they are held together,"}
{"book": 2, "line": 1009, "key": "1009", "latin": "et quos inter se dent motus accipiantque,", "en": "and what motions they give and receive among themselves,"}
{"book": 2, "line": 1010, "key": "1010", "latin": "neve putes aeterna penes residere potesse", "en": "and may not think that there can reside in eternal"}
{"book": 2, "line": 1011, "key": "1011", "latin": "corpora prima quod in summis fluitare videmus", "en": "first bodies what we see floating on the surfaces"}
{"book": 2, "line": 1012, "key": "1012", "latin": "rebus et interdum nasci subitoque perire.", "en": "of things, and at times being born and suddenly perishing."}
{"book": 2, "line": 1013, "key": "1013", "latin": "quin etiam refert nostris in versibus ipsis", "en": "Indeed, even in my verses themselves it matters"}
{"book": 2, "line": 1014, "key": "1014", "latin": "cum quibus et quali sint ordine quaeque locata;", "en": "with what and in what order each is placed;"}
{"book": 2, "line": 1015, "key": "1015", "latin": "namque eadem caelum mare terras flumina solem", "en": "for the same ones signify heaven, sea, lands, rivers, sun,"}
{"book": 2, "line": 1016, "key": "1016", "latin": "significant, eadem fruges arbusta animantis;", "en": "the same signify grain, trees, living creatures;"}
{"book": 2, "line": 1017, "key": "1017", "latin": "si non omnia sunt, at multo maxima pars est", "en": "if not all, yet by far the greatest part"}
{"book": 2, "line": 1018, "key": "1018", "latin": "consimilis; verum positura discrepitant res.", "en": "are alike; but by their position the things differ."}
{"book": 2, "line": 1019, "key": "1019", "latin": "sic ipsis in rebus item iam materiai", "en": "So too in things themselves, when of matter"}
{"book": 2, "line": 1020, "key": "1020", "latin": "intervalla vias conexus pondera plagas", "en": "the intervals, paths, connections, weights, blows,"}
{"book": 2, "line": 1021, "key": "1021", "latin": "concursus motus ordo positura figurae", "en": "collisions, motions, order, position, shapes"}
{"book": 2, "line": 1022, "key": "1022", "latin": "cum permutantur, mutari res quoque debent.", "en": "are changed, the things too must be changed."}
{"book": 2, "line": 1023, "key": "1023", "latin": "Nunc animum nobis adhibe veram ad rationem.", "en": "Now apply your mind, for me, to true reasoning."}
{"book": 2, "line": 1024, "key": "1024", "latin": "nam tibi vehementer nova res molitur ad auris", "en": "For a thing strikingly new is struggling to reach"}
{"book": 2, "line": 1025, "key": "1025", "latin": "accedere et nova se species ostendere rerum.", "en": "your ears, and a new face of things to show itself."}
{"book": 2, "line": 1026, "key": "1026", "latin": "sed neque tam facilis res ulla est, quin ea primum", "en": "But there is no thing so easy that it does not at first"}
{"book": 2, "line": 1027, "key": "1027", "latin": "difficilis magis ad credendum constet, itemque", "en": "prove harder to believe, and likewise"}
{"book": 2, "line": 1028, "key": "1028", "latin": "nil adeo magnum neque tam mirabile quicquam,", "en": "nothing so great, nothing so wonderful,"}
{"book": 2, "line": 1029, "key": "1029", "latin": "quod non paulatim minuant mirarier omnes,", "en": "that all do not little by little lessen their wonder at it."}
{"book": 2, "line": 1030, "key": "1030", "latin": "principio caeli clarum purumque colorem", "en": "Consider first the clear and pure color of the sky,"}
{"book": 2, "line": 1031, "key": "1031", "latin": "quaeque in se cohibet, palantia sidera passim,", "en": "and all it holds within it, the stars wandering everywhere,"}
{"book": 2, "line": 1032, "key": "1032", "latin": "lunamque et solis praeclara luce nitorem;", "en": "and the moon, and the sun's brightness with its glorious light;"}
{"book": 2, "line": 1033, "key": "1033", "latin": "omnia quae nunc si primum mortalibus essent", "en": "all of which, if now for the first time to mortals,"}
{"book": 2, "line": 1034, "key": "1034", "latin": "ex improviso si sint obiecta repente,", "en": "if they were suddenly thrown before them unforeseen,"}
{"book": 2, "line": 1035, "key": "1035", "latin": "quid magis his rebus poterat mirabile dici,", "en": "what could be called more wonderful than these things,"}
{"book": 2, "line": 1036, "key": "1036", "latin": "aut minus ante quod auderent fore credere gentes?", "en": "or what would the nations less have dared beforehand to believe could be?"}
{"book": 2, "line": 1037, "key": "1037", "latin": "nil, ut opinor; ita haec species miranda fuisset.", "en": "Nothing, I think: so wondrous would this appearance have been."}
{"book": 2, "line": 1038, "key": "1038", "latin": "quam tibi iam nemo fessus satiate videndi,", "en": "Yet now, wearied with the surfeit of seeing, no one"}
{"book": 2, "line": 1039, "key": "1039", "latin": "suspicere in caeli dignatur lucida templa.", "en": "deigns to look up at the shining precincts of heaven."}
{"book": 2, "line": 1040, "key": "1040", "latin": "desine qua propter novitate exterritus ipsa", "en": "Cease, therefore, frightened by mere newness,"}
{"book": 2, "line": 1041, "key": "1041", "latin": "expuere ex animo rationem, sed magis acri", "en": "to spit reasoning out of your mind, but rather with keen"}
{"book": 2, "line": 1042, "key": "1042", "latin": "iudicio perpende, et si tibi vera videntur,", "en": "judgment weigh it, and if it seems true to you,"}
{"book": 2, "line": 1043, "key": "1043", "latin": "dede manus, aut, si falsum est, accingere contra.", "en": "give in; or, if it is false, gird yourself against it."}
{"book": 2, "line": 1044, "key": "1044", "latin": "quaerit enim rationem animus, cum summa loci sit", "en": "For the mind seeks reasoning, since the sum of place"}
{"book": 2, "line": 1045, "key": "1045", "latin": "infinita foris haec extra moenia mundi,", "en": "is infinite outside, beyond these walls of the world,"}
{"book": 2, "line": 1046, "key": "1046", "latin": "quid sit ibi porro, quo prospicere usque velit mens", "en": "of what is there further, where thought longs to look ever onward"}
{"book": 2, "line": 1047, "key": "1047", "latin": "atque animi iactus liber quo pervolet ipse.", "en": "and where the free cast of the mind itself flies through."}
{"book": 2, "line": 1048, "key": "1048", "latin": "Principio nobis in cunctas undique partis", "en": "First of all, for us in every direction all around,"}
{"book": 2, "line": 1049, "key": "1049", "latin": "et latere ex utroque supra supterque per omne", "en": "on either side, above and below, through the whole,"}
{"book": 2, "line": 1050, "key": "1050", "latin": "nulla est finis; uti docui, res ipsaque per se", "en": "there is no limit; as I have taught, and the thing itself"}
{"book": 2, "line": 1051, "key": "1051", "latin": "vociferatur, et elucet natura profundi.", "en": "cries aloud, and the nature of the deep shines clear."}
{"book": 2, "line": 1052, "key": "1052", "latin": "nullo iam pacto veri simile esse putandumst,", "en": "In no way, then, must it be thought likely,"}
{"book": 2, "line": 1053, "key": "1053", "latin": "undique cum vorsum spatium vacet infinitum", "en": "since space lies empty, infinite, in every direction,"}
{"book": 2, "line": 1054, "key": "1054", "latin": "seminaque innumero numero summaque profunda", "en": "and seeds in numberless number in the deep sum"}
{"book": 2, "line": 1055, "key": "1055", "latin": "multimodis volitent aeterno percita motu,", "en": "fly about in many ways, driven by eternal motion,"}
{"book": 2, "line": 1056, "key": "1056", "latin": "hunc unum terrarum orbem caelumque creatum,", "en": "that this one orb of lands and this sky alone were created,"}
{"book": 2, "line": 1057, "key": "1057", "latin": "nil agere illa foris tot corpora materiai;", "en": "and those so many bodies of matter outside do nothing;"}
{"book": 2, "line": 1058, "key": "1058", "latin": "cum praesertim hic sit natura factus et ipsa", "en": "especially since this world was made by nature, and the seeds"}
{"book": 2, "line": 1059, "key": "1059", "latin": "sponte sua forte offensando semina rerum", "en": "of things themselves, of their own accord, colliding by chance,"}
{"book": 2, "line": 1060, "key": "1060", "latin": "multimodis temere in cassum frustraque coacta", "en": "driven together in many ways, at random, vainly, to no purpose,"}
{"book": 2, "line": 1061, "key": "1061", "latin": "tandem coluerunt ea quae coniecta repente", "en": "at last grew together into those which, suddenly thrown together,"}
{"book": 2, "line": 1062, "key": "1062", "latin": "magnarum rerum fierent exordia semper,", "en": "might become forever the origins of great things,"}
{"book": 2, "line": 1063, "key": "1063", "latin": "terrai maris et caeli generisque animantum.", "en": "of earth and sea and sky and the race of living things."}
{"book": 2, "line": 1064, "key": "1064", "latin": "quare etiam atque etiam talis fateare necesse est", "en": "Therefore again and again you must confess"}
{"book": 2, "line": 1065, "key": "1065", "latin": "esse alios alibi congressus materiai,", "en": "that there are elsewhere other gatherings of matter"}
{"book": 2, "line": 1066, "key": "1066", "latin": "qualis hic est, avido complexu quem tenet aether.", "en": "such as this is, which the ether holds in its greedy embrace."}
{"book": 2, "line": 1067, "key": "1067", "latin": "Praeterea cum materies est multa parata,", "en": "Further, when much matter is made ready,"}
{"book": 2, "line": 1068, "key": "1068", "latin": "cum locus est praesto nec res nec causa moratur", "en": "when place is at hand and no thing and no cause"}
{"book": 2, "line": 1069, "key": "1069", "latin": "ulla, geri debent ni mirum et confieri res.", "en": "delays, things must surely be carried on and come to be."}
{"book": 2, "line": 1070, "key": "1070", "latin": "nunc et seminibus si tanta est copia, quantam", "en": "As it is, if there is such a store of seeds as"}
{"book": 2, "line": 1071, "key": "1071", "latin": "enumerare aetas animantum non queat omnis,", "en": "the whole life of living things could not count out,"}
{"book": 2, "line": 1072, "key": "1072", "latin": "quis eadem natura manet, quae semina rerum", "en": "and the same nature remains, which can throw the seeds of things"}
{"book": 2, "line": 1073, "key": "1073", "latin": "conicere in loca quaeque queat simili ratione", "en": "together into every place in the same way"}
{"book": 2, "line": 1074, "key": "1074", "latin": "atque huc sunt coniecta, necesse est confiteare", "en": "as they have been thrown together here, you must confess"}
{"book": 2, "line": 1075, "key": "1075", "latin": "esse alios aliis terrarum in partibus orbis", "en": "that in other regions there are other orbs of lands"}
{"book": 2, "line": 1076, "key": "1076", "latin": "et varias hominum gentis et saecla ferarum.", "en": "and various races of men and generations of wild beasts."}
{"book": 2, "line": 1077, "key": "1077", "latin": "Huc accedit ut in summa res nulla sit una,", "en": "Add to this that in the sum there is no one thing"}
{"book": 2, "line": 1078, "key": "1078", "latin": "unica quae gignatur et unica solaque crescat,", "en": "that is born unique and grows unique and alone,"}
{"book": 2, "line": 1079, "key": "1079", "latin": "quin aliquoius siet saecli permultaque eodem", "en": "but is of some generation, and very many are of the same"}
{"book": 2, "line": 1080, "key": "1080", "latin": "sint genere. in primis animalibus indice mente", "en": "kind. First, among living creatures, with your mind as guide,"}
{"book": 2, "line": 1081, "key": "1081", "latin": "invenies sic montivagum genus esse ferarum,", "en": "you will find it so with the mountain-roaming race of wild beasts,"}
{"book": 2, "line": 1082, "key": "1082", "latin": "sic hominum geminam prolem, sic denique mutas", "en": "so with the twin offspring of men, so finally with the mute"}
{"book": 2, "line": 1083, "key": "1083", "latin": "squamigerum pecudes et corpora cuncta volantum.", "en": "herds of the scaly ones and all the bodies of flying things."}
{"book": 2, "line": 1084, "key": "1084", "latin": "qua propter caelum simili ratione fatendumst", "en": "Therefore you must confess, on a like principle, that sky"}
{"book": 2, "line": 1085, "key": "1085", "latin": "terramque et solem, lunam mare cetera quae sunt,", "en": "and earth and sun, moon, sea, and all else that is,"}
{"book": 2, "line": 1086, "key": "1086", "latin": "non esse unica, sed numero magis innumerali;", "en": "are not unique, but rather of number beyond numbering;"}
{"book": 2, "line": 1087, "key": "1087", "latin": "quando quidem vitae depactus terminus alte", "en": "since the boundary-stone of life, set deep,"}
{"book": 2, "line": 1088, "key": "1088", "latin": "tam manet haec et tam nativo corpore constant", "en": "awaits these as surely, and they are of a body as born"}
{"book": 2, "line": 1089, "key": "1089", "latin": "quam genus omne, quod his generatimst rebus abundans.", "en": "as every kind that abounds here, kind by kind, in such things."}
{"book": 2, "line": 1090, "key": "1090", "latin": "Quae bene cognita si teneas, natura videtur", "en": "If you know these things well and hold them, nature is seen"}
{"book": 2, "line": 1091, "key": "1091", "latin": "libera continuo, dominis privata superbis,", "en": "to be free at once, stripped of proud masters,"}
{"book": 2, "line": 1092, "key": "1092", "latin": "ipsa sua per se sponte omnia dis agere expers.", "en": "doing all things of herself, by her own accord, without the gods."}
{"book": 2, "line": 1093, "key": "1093", "latin": "nam pro sancta deum tranquilla pectora pace", "en": "For by the holy hearts of the gods, which in tranquil peace"}
{"book": 2, "line": 1094, "key": "1094", "latin": "quae placidum degunt aevom vitamque serenam,", "en": "pass a placid age and a serene life,"}
{"book": 2, "line": 1095, "key": "1095", "latin": "quis regere immensi summam, quis habere profundi", "en": "who can rule the sum of the immeasurable, who hold in hand"}
{"book": 2, "line": 1096, "key": "1096", "latin": "indu manu validas potis est moderanter habenas,", "en": "the strong reins of the deep and guide them,"}
{"book": 2, "line": 1097, "key": "1097", "latin": "quis pariter caelos omnis convertere et omnis", "en": "who can turn all the heavens alike, and warm"}
{"book": 2, "line": 1098, "key": "1098", "latin": "ignibus aetheriis terras suffire feracis,", "en": "all the fruitful lands with fires of the ether,"}
{"book": 2, "line": 1099, "key": "1099", "latin": "omnibus inve locis esse omni tempore praesto,", "en": "or be present in all places at all times,"}
{"book": 2, "line": 1100, "key": "1100", "latin": "nubibus ut tenebras faciat caelique serena", "en": "to make darkness with clouds and shake the calm of heaven"}
{"book": 2, "line": 1101, "key": "1101", "latin": "concutiat sonitu, tum fulmina mittat et aedis", "en": "with sound, then hurl thunderbolts, and often"}
{"book": 2, "line": 1102, "key": "1102", "latin": "saepe suas disturbet et in deserta recedens", "en": "throw down his own shrines, and, withdrawing into deserts,"}
{"book": 2, "line": 1103, "key": "1103", "latin": "saeviat exercens telum, quod saepe nocentes", "en": "rage there, exercising his bolt, which often passes the guilty"}
{"book": 2, "line": 1104, "key": "1104", "latin": "praeterit exanimatque indignos inque merentes?", "en": "by, and strikes dead the unworthy and the undeserving?"}
{"book": 2, "line": 1105, "key": "1105", "latin": "Multaque post mundi tempus genitale diemque", "en": "And many bodies, after the birth-time of the world"}
{"book": 2, "line": 1106, "key": "1106", "latin": "primigenum maris et terrae solisque coortum", "en": "and the first-born day of sea and earth and the rising of the sun,"}
{"book": 2, "line": 1107, "key": "1107", "latin": "addita corpora sunt extrinsecus, addita circum", "en": "were added from outside, and added round about"}
{"book": 2, "line": 1108, "key": "1108", "latin": "semina, quae magnum iaculando contulit omne,", "en": "were seeds, which the great whole brought together by hurling them,"}
{"book": 2, "line": 1109, "key": "1109", "latin": "unde mare et terrae possent augescere et unde", "en": "from which the sea and the lands could increase, and from which"}
{"book": 2, "line": 1110, "key": "1110", "latin": "appareret spatium caeli domus altaque tecta", "en": "heaven's house could show its room, and lift its lofty roof"}
{"book": 2, "line": 1111, "key": "1111", "latin": "tolleret a terris procul et consurgeret aer.", "en": "far from the lands, and the air rise up."}
{"book": 2, "line": 1112, "key": "1112", "latin": "nam sua cuique, locis ex omnibus, omnia plagis", "en": "For each to its own, from every place, all bodies by blows"}
{"book": 2, "line": 1113, "key": "1113", "latin": "corpora distribuuntur et ad sua saecla recedunt,", "en": "are distributed, and go back to their own kinds:"}
{"book": 2, "line": 1114, "key": "1114", "latin": "umor ad umorem, terreno corpore terra", "en": "moisture to moisture; earth grows from earthy body,"}
{"book": 2, "line": 1115, "key": "1115", "latin": "crescit et ignem ignes procudunt aetheraque aether,", "en": "and fires forge fire, and ether forges ether,"}
{"book": 2, "line": 1116, "key": "1116", "latin": "donique ad extremum crescendi perfica finem", "en": "until to the farthest limit of growth, bringing all to completion,"}
{"book": 2, "line": 1117, "key": "1117", "latin": "omnia perduxit rerum natura creatrix;", "en": "the creating nature of things has led all things on;"}
{"book": 2, "line": 1118, "key": "1118", "latin": "ut fit ubi nihilo iam plus est quod datur intra", "en": "as happens when nothing more is now given within"}
{"book": 2, "line": 1119, "key": "1119", "latin": "vitalis venas quam quod fluit atque recedit.", "en": "the vital veins than flows away and withdraws."}
{"book": 2, "line": 1120, "key": "1120", "latin": "omnibus hic aetas debet consistere rebus,", "en": "Here the age of all things must come to a stand,"}
{"book": 2, "line": 1121, "key": "1121", "latin": "hic natura suis refrenat viribus auctum.", "en": "here nature reins in growth with her own strength."}
{"book": 2, "line": 1122, "key": "1122", "latin": "nam quae cumque vides hilaro grandescere adauctu", "en": "For whatever things you see grow big with cheerful increase"}
{"book": 2, "line": 1123, "key": "1123", "latin": "paulatimque gradus aetatis scandere adultae,", "en": "and little by little climb the steps of grown age"}
{"book": 2, "line": 1124, "key": "1124", "latin": "plura sibi adsumunt quam de se corpora mittunt,", "en": "take more bodies into themselves than they send out from themselves,"}
{"book": 2, "line": 1125, "key": "1125", "latin": "dum facile in venas cibus omnis inditur et dum", "en": "while all the food is easily put into their veins, and while"}
{"book": 2, "line": 1126, "key": "1126", "latin": "non ita sunt late dispessa, ut multa remittant", "en": "they are not spread so widely that they give back much"}
{"book": 2, "line": 1127, "key": "1127", "latin": "et plus dispendi faciant quam vescitur aetas.", "en": "and make more waste than their age feeds upon."}
{"book": 2, "line": 1128, "key": "1128", "latin": "nam certe fluere atque recedere corpora rebus", "en": "For certainly we must grant that many bodies flow"}
{"book": 2, "line": 1129, "key": "1129", "latin": "multa manus dandum est; sed plura accedere debent,", "en": "and withdraw from things; but more must come in,"}
{"book": 2, "line": 1130, "key": "1130", "latin": "donec alescendi summum tetigere cacumen.", "en": "until they have touched the topmost peak of growing."}
{"book": 2, "line": 1131, "key": "1131", "latin": "inde minutatim vires et robur adultum", "en": "From then, little by little, age breaks the strength"}
{"book": 2, "line": 1132, "key": "1132", "latin": "frangit et in partem peiorem liquitur aetas.", "en": "and grown vigor, and melts away into the worse part."}
{"book": 2, "line": 1133, "key": "1133", "latin": "quippe etenim quanto est res amplior, augmine adempto,", "en": "For indeed, the larger a thing is, once its increase is taken away,"}
{"book": 2, "line": 1134, "key": "1134", "latin": "et quo latior est, in cunctas undique partis", "en": "and the wider it is, into all directions on every side"}
{"book": 2, "line": 1135, "key": "1135", "latin": "plura modo dispargit et a se corpora mittit,", "en": "the more bodies it scatters now and sends out from itself,"}
{"book": 2, "line": 1136, "key": "1136", "latin": "nec facile in venas cibus omnis diditur ei", "en": "nor is all the food easily distributed into its veins,"}
{"book": 2, "line": 1137, "key": "1137", "latin": "nec satis est, pro quam largos exaestuat aestus,", "en": "nor is there enough, for the lavish tides it pours out,"}
{"book": 2, "line": 1138, "key": "1138", "latin": "unde queat tantum suboriri ac subpeditare.", "en": "from which as much could arise again and be supplied."}
{"book": 2, "line": 1139, "key": "1139", "latin": "iure igitur pereunt, cum rarefacta fluendo", "en": "Rightly, therefore, they perish, when they have grown rare"}
{"book": 2, "line": 1140, "key": "1140", "latin": "sunt et cum externis succumbunt omnia plagis,", "en": "by flowing, and all things give way beneath blows from outside,"}
{"book": 2, "line": 1141, "key": "1141", "latin": "quando quidem grandi cibus aevo denique defit,", "en": "since in great age food at last runs short,"}
{"book": 2, "line": 1142, "key": "1142", "latin": "nec tuditantia rem cessant extrinsecus ullam", "en": "and the bodies battering from outside never cease"}
{"book": 2, "line": 1143, "key": "1143", "latin": "corpora conficere et plagis infesta domare.", "en": "to wear a thing down and subdue it with hostile blows."}
{"book": 2, "line": 1144, "key": "1144", "latin": "Sic igitur magni quoque circum moenia mundi", "en": "So therefore the walls of the great world round about"}
{"book": 2, "line": 1145, "key": "1145", "latin": "expugnata dabunt labem putrisque ruinas;", "en": "will also be stormed, and give way to decay and crumbling ruin;"}
{"book": 2, "line": 1146, "key": "1146", "latin": "omnia debet enim cibus integrare novando", "en": "for food must make all things whole by renewing them,"}
{"book": 2, "line": 1147, "key": "1147", "latin": "et fulcire cibus, cibus omnia sustentare,", "en": "food must prop them up, food must sustain all things,"}
{"book": 2, "line": 1148, "key": "1148", "latin": "ne quiquam, quoniam nec venae perpetiuntur", "en": "in vain, since neither do the veins endure to take in"}
{"book": 2, "line": 1149, "key": "1149", "latin": "quod satis est, neque quantum opus est natura ministrat.", "en": "what is enough, nor does nature supply as much as is needed."}
{"book": 2, "line": 1150, "key": "1150", "latin": "Iamque adeo fracta est aetas effetaque tellus", "en": "And indeed even now the age is broken, and the worn-out earth"}
{"book": 2, "line": 1151, "key": "1151", "latin": "vix animalia parva creat, quae cuncta creavit", "en": "scarcely creates small animals, she who created all"}
{"book": 2, "line": 1152, "key": "1152", "latin": "saecla deditque ferarum ingentia corpora partu.", "en": "kinds, and gave birth to the huge bodies of wild beasts."}
{"book": 2, "line": 1153, "key": "1153", "latin": "haud, ut opinor, enim mortalia saecla superne", "en": "For it was not, I think, that the mortal kinds from on high"}
{"book": 2, "line": 1154, "key": "1154", "latin": "aurea de caelo demisit funis in arva", "en": "a golden rope let down from heaven into the fields,"}
{"book": 2, "line": 1155, "key": "1155", "latin": "nec mare nec fluctus plangentis saxa crearunt,", "en": "nor did the sea and the waves beating on the rocks create them,"}
{"book": 2, "line": 1156, "key": "1156", "latin": "sed genuit tellus eadem quae nunc alit ex se.", "en": "but the earth bore them, the same that now feeds them from herself."}
{"book": 2, "line": 1157, "key": "1157", "latin": "praeterea nitidas fruges vinetaque laeta", "en": "Further, the shining crops and the glad vineyards"}
{"book": 2, "line": 1158, "key": "1158", "latin": "sponte sua primum mortalibus ipsa creavit,", "en": "she herself, of her own accord, first created for mortals,"}
{"book": 2, "line": 1159, "key": "1159", "latin": "ipsa dedit dulcis fetus et pabula laeta;", "en": "she herself gave sweet fruits and glad pastures;"}
{"book": 2, "line": 1160, "key": "1160", "latin": "quae nunc vix nostro grandescunt aucta labore,", "en": "which now scarcely grow great, increased by our labor,"}
{"book": 2, "line": 1161, "key": "1161", "latin": "conterimusque boves et viris agricolarum,", "en": "and we wear out the oxen and the strength of the farmers,"}
{"book": 2, "line": 1162, "key": "1162", "latin": "conficimus ferrum vix arvis suppeditati:", "en": "we wear down the iron, we whom the fields scarcely supply:"}
{"book": 2, "line": 1163, "key": "1163", "latin": "usque adeo parcunt fetus augentque laborem.", "en": "so much do they stint their fruits and increase the labor."}
{"book": 2, "line": 1164, "key": "1164", "latin": "iamque caput quassans grandis suspirat arator", "en": "And now the aged plowman shakes his head and sighs"}
{"book": 2, "line": 1165, "key": "1165", "latin": "crebrius, in cassum magnos cecidisse labores,", "en": "more often that his great labors have come to nothing,"}
{"book": 2, "line": 1166, "key": "1166", "latin": "et cum tempora temporibus praesentia confert", "en": "and when he compares the present times with times"}
{"book": 2, "line": 1167, "key": "1167", "latin": "praeteritis, laudat fortunas saepe parentis.", "en": "gone by, he often praises his father's fortunes."}
{"book": 2, "line": 1168, "key": "1168", "latin": "tristis item vetulae vitis sator atque vietae", "en": "Gloomily too the planter of the old and shriveled vine"}
{"book": 2, "line": 1169, "key": "1169", "latin": "temporis incusat momen saeclumque fatigat,", "en": "blames the drift of time and wearies the age with complaint,"}
{"book": 2, "line": 1170, "key": "1170", "latin": "et crepat, antiquum genus ut pietate repletum", "en": "and grumbles how the race of old, filled with piety,"}
{"book": 2, "line": 1171, "key": "1171", "latin": "perfacile angustis tolerarit finibus aevom,", "en": "bore life very easily within narrow bounds,"}
{"book": 2, "line": 1172, "key": "1172", "latin": "cum minor esset agri multo modus ante viritim;", "en": "though the measure of land for each man was far smaller before;"}
{"book": 2, "line": 1173, "key": "1173", "latin": "nec tenet omnia paulatim tabescere et ire", "en": "nor does he grasp that all things waste away by degrees and go"}
{"book": 2, "line": 1174, "key": "1174", "latin": "ad capulum spatio aetatis defessa vetusto.", "en": "to the bier, worn out by the ancient span of age."}