Fit quoque ut interdum similes existere avorum possint et referant proavorum saepe figuras, propterea quia multa modis primordia multis mixta suo celant in corpore saepe parentes, quae patribus patres tradunt a stirpe profecta; inde Venus varia producit sorte figuras maiorumque refert voltus vocesque comasque, quandoquidem nilo minus haec de semine certo fiunt quam facies et corpora membraque nobis.
It sometimes happens also that the children may appear like a grandfather and often reproduce the looks of a great-grandfather, because the parents often conceal in their bodies many first-beginnings mingled in many ways, which fathers hand on to fathers received from their stock; from these Venus brings forth forms with varying lot, and reproduces the countenance, the voice, the hair of their ancestors; for these features come from a fixed seed no less than our faces and bodies and limbs.
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