e mare primum homines, e terra posset oriri squamigerum genus et volucres erumpere caelo; armenta atque aliae pecudes, genus omne ferarum, incerto partu culta ac deserta tenerent; nec fructus idem arboribus constare solerent, sed mutarentur: ferre omnes omnia possent.
Firstly, men could arise from the sea, from the earth scaly tribes, and birds could hatch from the sky; cattle and other farm animals and every kind of wild creature would fill desert and cultivated land alike, with no certainty as to birth. Nor would trees be constant in bearing the same fruit, but they would interchange: all would be able to bear all.
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