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Book 4 · lines 777–791
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777Multaque in his rebus quaeruntur multaque nobis
778clarandumst, plane si res exponere avemus.
779quaeritur in primis quare, quod cuique libido
780venerit, extemplo mens cogitet eius id ipsum.
781anne voluntatem nostram simulacra tuentur
782et simul ac volumus nobis occurrit imago,
783si mare, si terram cordist, si denique caelum?
784conventus hominum, pompam, convivia, pugnas,
785omnia sub verbone creat natura paratque?
786cum praesertim aliis eadem in regione locoque
787longe dissimilis animus res cogitet omnis.
788quid porro, in numerum procedere cum simulacra
789cernimus in somnis et mollia membra movere,
790mollia mobiliter cum alternis bracchia mittunt
791et repetunt oculis gestum pede convenienti?