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Lucretius
(99 BC - 55 BC)
32 poems of Lucretius
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21      Book V - Part 03 - The World is Not Eternal
22      Book V - Part 05 - Origins Of Vegetable And Animal Life
23      Book V - Part 06 - Origins And Savage Period Of Mankind
24      Book V - Part 07 - Beginnings Of Civilization
25      Book VI - Part 01 - Proem
26      Book VI - Part 02 - Great Meteorological Phenomena, Etc
27      Book VI - Part 04 - The Plague Athens
28      Of The Nature Of Things: Book I - Part 02 - Substance Is Eternal
29      Of The Nature Of Things: Book II - Part 05 - Infinite Worlds
        
 
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  Book VI - Part 04 - The Plague Athe

'Twas such a manner of disease, 'twas such
Mortal miasma in Cecropian lands
Whilom reduced the plains to dead men's bones,
Unpeopled the highways, drained of citizens
The Athenian town. For coming from afar,
Rising in lands of Aegypt, traversing
Reaches of air and floating fields of foam,
At last on all Pandion's folk it swooped;
Whereat by troops unto disease and death
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