cetera de genere hoc monstra ac portenta creabat' nequiquam, quoniam natura absterruit auctum, nec potuere cupitum aetatis tangere florem nec reperire cibum nec iungi per Veneris res.
So with the rest of like monsters and portents that she made, it was all in vain; since nature banned their growth, and they could not attain the desired flower of age nor find food nor join by the ways of Venus.
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