quod si non esset, nulla ratione moveri res possent; namque officium quod corporis exstat, officere atque obstare, id in omni tempore adesset omnibus; haud igitur quicquam procedere posset, principium quoniam cedendi nulla daret res.
But if there were none, things could not in any way move; for that which is the province of body, to prevent and to obstruct, would at all times be present to all things; therefore nothing would be able to move forward, since nothing could begin to give place.
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