Praeterea nisi materies aeterna fuisset, antehac ad nilum penitus res quaeque redissent, de niloque renata forent quaecumque videmus.
Besides, unless matter had been everlasting, before this all things would have returned utterly to nothing, and whatever we see would have been born again from nothing.
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