denique materies si rerum nulla fuisset nec locus ac spatium, res in quo quaeque geruntur, numquam Tyndaridis forma conflatus amore ignis, Alexandri Phrygio sub pectore gliscens, clara accendisset saevi certamina belli, nec clam durateus Troiianis Pergama partu inflammasset equos nocturno Graiiugenarum; perspicere ut possis res gestas funditus omnis non ita uti corpus per se constare neque esse, nec ratione cluere eadem qua constet inane, sed magis ut merito possis eventa vocare corporis atque loci, res in quo quaeque gerantur.
Again, if there had been no material for things, and no place and space in which each thing is done, no fire fanned to flame by love through the beauty of Tyndareus daughter, and glowing beneath the breast of Phrygian Alexander, would ever have set alight blazing battles of savage war; no wooden horse, unmarked by the sons of Troy, would ever have set Pergama in flames by its night-born brood of Grecians; so that you may perceive that things done never at all consist or exist in themselves as body does, nor are said to exist in the same way as void; but rather you may properly call them accidents of body, and of the place in which the things are severally done.
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