quam minime ut possit mixtos in corpore odores concoctosque suo contractans perdere viro, propter eandem rem debent primordia rerum non adhibere suum gignundis rebus odorem nec sonitum, quoniam nil ab se mittere possunt, nec simili ratione saporem denique quemquam nec frigus neque item calidum tepidumque vaporem, cetera; quae cum ita sunt tamen ut mortalia constent, molli lenta, fragosa putri, cava corpore raro, omnia sint a principiis seiuncta necessest, inmortalia si volumus subiungere rebus fundamenta quibus nitatur summa salutis, ne tibi res redeant ad nilum funditus omnes.
so that it may as little as possible with any pungency of its own touch and destroy the scents that will be mixed and boiled up with its substance: for the same reason the first-beginnings of things must not contribute any odour of their own to the making of things, nor any sound, since they can emit nothing from themselves, and similarly no taste at all, nor cold, nor heat again and moderate warmth, and the rest: all these, since their nature is such that after all they are perishable'the pliant of soft body, the fragile of crumbling body, the spongy of rarefied body'all these must be kept apart from the first-beginnings, if we wish to lay an imperishable foundation for things upon which the sum of existence may rest: or else you will find all things passing back utterly to nothing.
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