qui poterunt igitur rerum primordia dici et leti vitare vias, animalia cum sint, atque animalia sint mortalibus una eademque?  quod tamen ut possint, at coetu concilioque nil facient praeter volgum turbamque animantum, scilicet ut nequeant homines armenta feraeque inter sese ullam rem gignere conveniundo.
How then will it be possible for them to be called first-beginnings of things, and to avoid the paths of death, when they are living things, and living things are one and the same as things mortal? And even supposing they could be so, yet by conjunction and combination they will produce nothing but a throng and crowd of living things, exactly as men, cattle, and wild beasts could not produce a new thing amongst themselves by coming together.
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