nam quod multa fuere in terris semina rerum tempore quo primum tellus animalia fudit, nil tamen est signi mixtas potuisse creari inter se pecudes compactaque membra animantum, propterea quia quae de terris nunc quoque abundant' herbarum genera ac fruges arbustaque laeta' non tamen inter se possunt complexa creari, sed res quaeque suo ritu procedit, et omnes foedere naturae certo discrimina servant.
For although there were many seeds of things in the soil at the time when first the earth poured forth the animals, that is nevertheless no proof that creatures of mixed growth could be made, and limbs of various creatures joined into one; because the various kinds of plants and the corn and the luxuriant trees, which even now spring in abundance from the earth, nevertheless cannot be produced interwoven together, but each thing proceeds after its own fashion, and all by fixed law of nature preserve their distinctions.
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