Sed quoniam docui cunctarum exordia rerum qualia sint et quam variis distantia formis sponte sua volitent aeterno percita motu quoque modo possit res ex his quaeque creari, nunc agere incipiam tibi, quod vementer ad has res attinet, esse ea quae rerum simulacra vocamus, quae quasi membranae vel cortex nominitandast, quod speciem ac formam similem gerit eius imago cuiuscumque cluet de corpore fusa vagari.
But since I have shown of what kind are the beginnings of all things, and in how varying and different shapes they fly of their own accord driven in everlasting motion, and how all things can be produced from these, you shall now see me begin to deal with what is of high importance for this subject, and to show that there exist what we term images of things, which are to be called as it were their films or bark, because the image bears a look and shape like the object, whatever it is, from whose body it is shed to go on its way.
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