Lucretius 1 Vocab Flashcards
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concelabras
A
Fill with your presence
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daedala
A
Skilful in creating
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genitabilis
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Terming
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reserata viget
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Blows fresh and free
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propagent
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Cause to beget
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generatim
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After their kind
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dias
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Shining
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leporem
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Charm
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sopita
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Sleep
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tereti
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Shapely
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Memmii clara propago
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The noble scion is the Memmii
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communi desse saluti
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Be lacking the safety of the state
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privata
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Free from
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nil indigo nostri
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Needing us not at all
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sagacem
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Keen
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semotum
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Detached
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primordia
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The first beginnings of things
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redunda in ratione
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When discussing philosophy
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usurpare
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To denote
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arta…claustra
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The confining bars
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omne immensum
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The immeasurable universe
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finita potestas denique cuique quanam sit ratione
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In short how each thing has its powers limited
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alte terminus haerens
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Its deep-set boundary mark
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infula
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Ribbon
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comptus
Maiden hairs
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hunc propter
By his side
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quod patrio princeps donaret nomine regum
That the name of father had been bestowed on the king first by her
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nubendi tempore in ipso
At the very age of wedlock
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tutemet
You will surely
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aerumnarum
For hardships
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nascentibus insuetur
Weaves its way into men at birth
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quapropter
Therefore
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meatus
The courses
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coram
Face to face
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multa...agendum
We must often employ
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formido
Dread
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incerto partu
With uncertain birth
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patefecit
Disclosed itself
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arceri
Be restrained
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genitai concilio
From generative union
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spatio usus
Would time be needed
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salirent
Would leap forth
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alique
And is nourished
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laetificos...fetus
Cheering fruits
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secreta cibo
Things kept apart from food
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videlicet
It is plain to see
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terraique solum subigentes
Trenching the soil
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neque ad nilum interemat res
And does not reduce things to nothing
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partibus eius discidium parere
To cause disruption of its parts
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per inania
Through the void places
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generatim
After each its kind
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vulgo
Without distinction
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indupedita
Intertwined
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umor
Stream
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distentis
Swollen
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artubus infirmis
On their weakly limbs
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lacte mero mentes perculsa novellas
Their tender hearts intoxicated with neat milk
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genitas
When brought forth
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diffidere
To distrust
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nimium
Undoubtedly
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stragemque propagant
Deal devastation
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molibus
Piers
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vertice torto
In a swirling eddy
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aperto corpore qui sunt
Which possess a body that can be seen
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uvescunt
Grow damp
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serescunt
Grow dry
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multis solus redeuntibus annis
With many revolutions of the sun’s years
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stilicidi casus
The fall of drippings
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praeclusit specimen
Has barred us from proving
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vesco sale
By the gnawing salt
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stipata
Packed
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privata
Lack altogether
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officiumst
It is the property
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aiunt
They say
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latices
Water
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privandumst
Must be deprived
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celerantibus
With swift concurrents
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se condenseat
Compresses itself
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denserier
Be compressed
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conradere
To scrape together
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quietes
Restless places
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de plano
Without more ado
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diti
Rich
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sensus
Sensation
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corpus enim per se
That body has its separate existence
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sita
Situated
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apisci
Can grasp
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cluent
Have a name
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coniunctum
A property
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permitiali discidio
Without destructive dissolution
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nocturne Graiiugenarum
By its night-born brood if Grecians
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saepta
The walls
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superne
From above
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omne quod est
The universe
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conlidi
Be crushed
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manabile
Penetrating
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conficiuntur
Are destroyed
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labascit
Attack
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suppeditet
May be forthcoming
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rebus reparandis
For the renewal of things
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simplicitate
Of solid singleness
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reddi
Can be accounted for
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funditus
Utterly
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pollentia
Mighty
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artari
Closely packed
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fragile natura praedita constant
Since they are endowed with a dissoluble nature
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discrepant
It is inconsistent
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maculas generalis
The markings of their kind
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alte terminus haerens
It’s deep-set boundary mark
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constabunt
Will consist of
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dimidiae
A half
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quid escit
What difference is there
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genitalis...materies
Generative matter
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stolidi
Stupid people
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quae sunt fucata
All that is varnished over
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disque supatis
Scattered apart
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nil referret
It will be of no use
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adiectu
By impact
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labefactat eos, unde omnia credita pendent
And shakes the credit of that upon which all belief depends
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qui...constituere
Those who have laid down
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qui conduplicant primordia rerum
Those who take the first beginnings of things in couples
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anfractibus
Windings
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glaucis
Bluish grey
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praeclara reperta
Illustrious discoveries
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humana...stirpe
From mortal stock
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conicere
Deduce
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huc accedit item
Moreover
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quorum utrumque quid a vero iam distet habebis
How far both these views are from the truth you will already know
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clandestinam caecamque
Hidden and unseen
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emineat
May be prominent
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tabe nimborum
The melting of the clouds
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vacillent
Shake
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dubio procul
Beyond a doubt
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nimirum
Undoubtedly
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quin etiam
Moreover
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tantum elementa queunt permutato ordine solo
So much cam elements do when only their order is changed
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queunt
Are able
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videlicet
He clearly holds that
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pauxillis
Small
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viscus
Flesh
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micis
Grains
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inbecilla nimis
Too weak
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ex alienigenis
Of things unlike itself
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latitandi copia tenvis
Some slight opportunity for evasion
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sibi sumit
Turns to his advantage
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terimus
Rub
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in rebus...apertis
Among invisible things
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praedita
Endowed with
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cachinnent
They guffaw
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mente vigenti
In lively thought
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pergo
I proceed
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medentes
Doctors
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absinthia taetra
Rank wormwood
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ludificetur labrorum tenus
May be deluded as far as the lips
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laticem
Juice
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deceptaque non capiatur
Though beguiled, not betrayed
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quibus non est tractata
To those who have not used it
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item quod inane repertumst
Likewise as for the void which has been found to exist
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nec refert
Nor does it matter
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exempta...fine
Without end
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effugiumque fugae prolatet copia semper
And the possibility of flight will ever put off escape
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copia materiai
The store of matter
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ex infinito iam tempore subsidendo
From sinking down through infinite ages past
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infernaque suppeditantur
Are being supplied from beneath
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dissaepit
Separates
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ipsa modum porro sibi rerum summa parare ne possit, natura tenet
Furthermore nature withholds the sum of existing things from providing a limit for itself
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pepigere profecto
Did they make arrangements
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percita plagis
Set in motion by blows
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cudere
To batter
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est vis
There is need of
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niti
Press
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retro...posta
Upside down
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suppa vagari
Move about head downwards
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ulli subsistere
Give support for anything
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medii cuppedine victae
Overcome by yearning for the middle
