Quodsi terra generibus umorum non esset dissimilis et disparata, non tantum in Syria et Arabia in harundinibus et iuncis herbisque omnibus essent odores, neque arbores turiferae, neque piperis darent bacas, nec murrae glaebulae, nec Cyrenis in ferulis laser nasceretur, sed in omni terra regionibus eodem genere omnia procrearentur.
For unless the soil were unlike and disparate in its juices, not only in Syria and Arabia would there be perfumes in the reeds, rushes, and all herbs, nor incense-bearing trees; nor would they yield pepper berries, nor would there grow flakes of myrrh; nor in Cyrene would the assafetida grow in the stalks of silphium. But in every land and region everything would be produced of the same kind.
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